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back on the comic book wagon

January 20, 2015January 20, 2015 Laura MauroLeave a comment

I used to love comics. As mentioned in my previous post on the subject, I started out with Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' series and have been a dabbler in the genre ever since. But a strange thing happened around five years ago. I fell out of love with comics, and graphic novels, and visual storytelling in… Continue reading back on the comic book wagon

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“Mauro distorts quaint divides between the inhuman and the human too; often a source of deep anxiety, but also of curiosity about ourselves unexpectedly exposed as alien, as always having been alien.” – Rowan Fortune, Medium.com

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