May 2018

9781626723160

Is This Guy For Real?

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by • Daily Pull

Box Brown, Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2018). $19.99, pb. Growing up in the 1970s there were many things that confused me: OPEC, Watergate, and vinyl jumpsuits being just a few. But nothing confused me more than Andy Kaufman. I mean, I thought I got his early schtick on […]

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9780804011907

Comic Shop

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by • Feature

Dan Gearino, Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2017). 264 pp, $26.95. Dan Gearino’s Comic Shop is a book I wish I could have written. Here’s why: In my comics studies classes, I often teach the history and structure of the comic book market. Sometimes […]

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