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Mario! Answers Many of the Confessional Questions
posted September 8, 2008
 

Favorites
1. What is your favorite stand-alone publication of the last five years?
Ganges #1

3. What is your favorite webcomic?
http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

5. What is your favorite comics web site that is not a link- or commentary-blog?
http://www.barnaclepress.com/


Comic Shops
8. List the names of the comics shops that have beenyour shop in your lifetime of buying comics.
http://www.bigplanetcomics.com/ - Vienna, VA (They invented SPX.)


Greats
11. Who is the Greatest Living Cartoonist?
Eddie Campbell

12. Name the female cartoonist highest up in your personal pantheon.
Posy Simmonds

13. Name the cartoonist with a non-white South American or African heritage highest up in your personal pantheon.
Los Bros

14. Who is the world's most under-appreciated cartoonist?
Joann Sfar. I know he is appreciated, but it should be way more. Rabbi's Cat's trailer inspires Pantheon to print 900,000 more copies of Rabbi's Cat, in my fantasy.

15. Name a cartoonist you know is great but whose work you find hard to enjoy.
Ware (which is not to say I don't)


Nostalgia
16. What was the first comic that you remember buying after the last time you stopped buying comics?
Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #98, featuring Black Cat

17. What comic do you plan to revisit one day?
Cerebus

18. Name a comic that was even better when you tracked it down than you remember it being the first time.
Elektra: Assassin - really corny and dated, but a real page-turner

19. What is the worst comic in your collection that you keep for reasons other than its quality?


Self-Improvement
22. Name a comics figure this site has never interviewed you'd like to see interviewed.
Eve Gilbert


Bonus Section: Not Comics
2. Name three US vice-presidents in the order that they occur to you.
Gore, Bush, Biden (:

3. Name a movie that shouldn't have been remade and a movie that should be.
The Shop around the Corner shouldn't have been, When Harry Met Sally should be

4. Otto Graham, Joe Montana or Tom Brady?
Montana 4LIFE

5. If you could have any middle name in the world not "Bronislaw," what would it be?
Zarraga