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'Shattered Glass' It Ain't
Part confessional, part greatest hits collection, Rabid Nun offers a cursory look at the one place in American journal where it's still okay to lie -- the checkout line tabloids.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
12-15-2005 |
Nonfiction
Best of Both Worldsnew
Three solid new small press comics straddle the worlds of indy and mainstream.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
12-08-2005 |
Original Work
Tags: Various Titles, Various Authors
Never Super-er
No need to wait until next summer to see the next viewer-friendly, blockbuster reinterpretation of Superman; it's right here in handy comic book format.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-24-2005 |
Original Work
Flying The Skull And Funnybones
Gideon Defoe's "Pirates!" adventure books are a blast, and if you're not careful, you just may learn something -- nothing of any value, of course, but something.
Columbus Alive |
Bob Starker |
11-17-2005 |
Fiction
Sean Hannity, Cyborg Hero of the People
A new comic book series posits a futuristic, liberal dystopia where the only thing between mollycoddled terrorists and the total annihilation of the American people are action heroes G. Gordon Liddy and Sean Hannity.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Dr. Seuss, Pre-Med
A new collection of early works reveals Dr. Seuss as more than just another brand name or massively influential children's book author: He was a real, living artist whose work wasn't always all that great.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-09-2005 |
Original Work
Toothpaste -- It's What's for Dinner
First-name-only cartoonist Drew's online comic strip Toothpaste for Dinner gets downloaded into a hard-copy collection.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
11-03-2005 |
Original Work
Don't Quit Now
What does Harvey Pekar still have left to reveal about himself? How about his secret origin?
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Original Work
Tags: Harvey Pekar, The Quitter
Canonizing Morrissey
"MetroDaddy" Mark Simpson offers a unique sortabiography of the former Smiths frontman -- one worth reading.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-27-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey
A Taste Of Honey
With her .38 and 38-inch bust, '50s pulp fiction heroine Honey West returns to bookshelves in a reprint of her first adventure.
Columbus Alive |
Bob Starker |
10-20-2005 |
Fiction
All You Wanted to Know About Mackin'
King Flex offers wannabe playas dubious advice for scoring more high quality honeys and fewer chickenheads and hoodrats.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
Fossil Feud
Graphic novel digs up the too good to be anything but true story of the warring paleontologists who introudced America to the dinosuars, plus the sex secrets of alternative cartoonists.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-29-2005 |
Nonfiction
Read Menace
Author salvages a story about that other time we almost had a nuclear war with the U.S.S.R.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
The Naked Citynew
Author Nick Tyler spends "Another Bullshit Night" with his homeless father and his fractured memories.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-15-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Get 'Em While They're Young
A children's author provides a primer in the politics of fear for tomorrow's Republicans.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-14-2005 |
Fiction
