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At Comic Con Eisner-nominated and award-winning writer Ram Venkatesan, better known as Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr,…

A MegaMan “NT Warrior” anime Twitch marathon is on the way, too! We’ve just decrypted a fresh batch of Mystery…

Autobiographical Conversations, the crowdfunded book I talked about a couple of months ago, has come out, and copies are now available to buy from Ryan Claytor’s website. Comics about comics can be insightful (The Comic Book History of Comics), sometimes to the point of influence far beyond the field (Understanding Comics), or tedious. This one falls in the first category, as Claytor draws himself discussing the genre of autobiographical comics with an English professor (the co-credited Dr. Harry Polkinhorn) known for studying the personal essay. It’s mostly talking-head dialogue, but Claytor has the two wander campus and …