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 […]
Trina Robbins, Last Girl Standing. Fantagraphics, 2017. 200 pp, $19.99. Trina Robbins is often mentioned as the token woman of the underground comix scene of the 1970s. In the standard narrative, she stands out amidst the boys club and often rails against the misogyny of the scene, highlighting how her exclusion led to the founding […]
Tales from the Vault: 40 Years, 40 Stories. Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library. March 25 – October 22, 2017. What a challenge it must be to choose between all the remarkable possibilities available for display in a collection as deep as the one at the Billy Ireland! The curators, Jenny Robb and Caitlin McGurk, […]