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PhD in comics, book historian, author of From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics from UPress of Mississippi, summer 2024.
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Today at 7 PM GMT, I'm guesting on the excellent Centuries of Sound radio/podcast, talking with the great James Errington about the music, popular and otherwise, of 1942!

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ICMYI! I returned to Hannah and Marcelle's podcast to talk memes, comics, and Richie Rich! www.ohwitchplease.ca/all-episodes...

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There's a scene in the live-action 1964 Tintin movie TINTIN ET LES ORANGES BLEUES where Captain Haddock is sitting in front of a portrait of Sir Francis Haddock, and it's painted to look like an Hergé drawing—I wonder if this inspired the caricature gag at the beginning of Spielberg's TINTIN.

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I finally got to see Y2K (2024)—I quite like Kyle Mooney’s work but this felt like a huge misfire. The big picture problem is that the premise (Y2K… uh, happens) is so goofy that the movie’s attempts to be serious don’t even reach I.e. The World’s End. Much preferred the silly, stupid, gory moments.

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After years away, I return to the world of Marcelle and Hannah podcasting as a guest! *mumble mumble* current events, surprisingly, come up but the episode is mostly about my book chapter on Richie Rich and What It All Means! pod.link/979059619/ep...

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This term's assigned reading!

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Looking through some boxes and forgot I had a copy of this pivotal issue (#66, November 1994); this is the first "advanced computer modelling" cover of Nintendo's in-house magazine. From this point on, they're going to sideline the idea of visualizing games using other techniques such as cartooning.

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My book's first legitimate review! Very exciting and flattering!

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My book about materiality and comics has... materialized! Wonderful to hold this in my hands at last. And the graph looks pretty snazzy too!

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My forthcoming book is on a sale! A good deal in my opinion, and still hundreds of times more than the gum on the cover! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/From...

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It's really happening! My book about cheap comics is coming this summer.

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Spending all week indexing my book. it's tough work but there's a lot of fun juxtapositions. For example "Iron Man" directly follows "Iran-Contra"

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Great moment in my last substantive Comics class of the term (and year)—we flipped through the September Scholastic catalogue and considered what if any of these are the most successful comics of our time. Making undergrads feel old by showing them Dog Man, that's my pedagogy right there.

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After years of students telling me it was the main comic they'd read, I finally got around to Kazu Kibuishi's AMULET today (...uh, because I'm teaching it tomorrow morning). I liked it a lot and I wish it hadn't come out when I was in my mid-twenties! My Scholastic comic was those 3-pack Garfields.

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Hey it's my book! Book history about comics that don't often get a book history. To answer your question yes: I ate more than a kilogram of gum for this. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/From...

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