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June 28, 2010


I’m Thinking Of Thinning The Herd

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The comics herd where I'm typing this, that is. That's the long way around of saying I have too many comic books and my studio is just about at full capacity. I'd love to make a component of such a clean-up project a charitable donation but it looks like the last people I used for that are no longer providing that service. Any ideas? I'd appreciate .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) no matter how out there or wacky. I'd appreciate not-wacky and right-here suggestions, too. For instance, one thing I might do is a promotion where one of the outcomes is I send random participants boxes of comics. I'm open to anything.

Just to be clear: this is more a random boxes of nonsense with some nuggets of gold type thing than it is a time to start your university's perfectly organized collection of great books in the comics realm type thing. People sometimes think that anyone that gets to read a lot of comics is sitting on the comics version of the Library of Alexandria when it's more like sitting on the comics section at the Public Library of Alexandria, Indiana. I wish the former were true in my case, but I don't have the collecting/curating gene so many of my awesome friends in comics have, and of which I am jealous.

for no particular reason, I have three copies of the above comic; that's just the kind of collector I am: capricious and addled
 
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