Go, Read: Sean Collins On Dirk Deppey’s Legacy At TCJ.com

I imagine this Sean Collins article about Dirk Deppey was a very difficult article to write, as critical articles are generally difficult and become exponentially more so when you know and occasionally work with the people involved. I know that it's hard for me to write about The Comics Journal because of my past there. On the one hand I'm probably over-sympathetic to the work-related travails involved. On the other, I don't all the way trust myself not to become that ex-fraternity chapter president who winds up on the housing board two years after graduation, the guy that starts every sentence with "I know how you guys really do things..." So I'm grateful for someone else stepping up to take a critical look at what is a compelling set of issues. Collins admits his gratitude for the former editor's professional solicitousness and does not in any way wish to deny Deppey his walk-out through the audience receiving high-fives, but still manages to dig into what he felt the seminal comics blogger did in regards to a cultural implement (TCJ, TCJ.com) that's still important to a lot of folks and would seem to have a greater, more significant place than it has right now in the comics world it helped create. I hope Sean doesn't get too much grief for the piece, and that while we're all waiting for more information about the publication's new direction people will engage the ideas in his post in the spirit they're offered.
 
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