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October 10, 2016


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Todd Klein on Astro City #37.

* I love that the sign of a radical shift in the story of Portland as a great American city may be a comic Joe Sacco and 'zine retailer hall of famer turned political candidate Chloe Eudaly are doing about rapidly-rising rents. I agree with that sentiment, or at least the idea that a media moment of a certain kind can be a cultural pivot point. More on Eudaly, and a reminder that you don't have to live in Portland to give to her campaign, here.

* it makes sense given the times that were would be an esteemed novel about a political cartoonist and their issues about now.

* Rachel Cooke talks to Sarah Glidden.

* finally, Anne M. Hamilton at the Hartford Courant remembers George Wildman, who died in May.
 
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