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everything’s archie, except not
I’m in the middle of reading a fabulous book, The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem. I already can’t wait to finish it so that I can write my review, but I also don’t want it to stop, so I keep...
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ball-buster girl
I have never really been a comics person or a superhero person, but I’m finally fed up enough, and have lived in Boston long enough to know that this is a real problem, not just me having trouble...
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self portrait assignments invite ridicule and identity confusion
My mother likes to tell the story of how my sister, who is mixed but way, way güera, was assigned in elementary school to do a self portrait and colored herself with dark brown crayons, because the...
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theodore laurence rises with the newsies
Guys, I just saw The Dark Knight Rises and I have so many feelings and opinions that I have to repeat everything I said while watching the movie in the theatre and then some. This is in no particular...
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fashion: bad at doing it, good at loving it – part one
Source: Cherry Meltdown In intermediate school (third to fifth grade), I loved Archie comics. I also loved paper dolls, and I hated that my friends never wanted to play them with me. One day I saw an...
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have regained ability to read comics
On our way from the pumpkin patch in Willcox to Apple Annie’s Orchard in maybe third grade, I slid in the car after my friend (her moms were driving us around for this very Tucsonan of October...
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how to get the kids to engage with black history
I was really, really excited when I heard about Joel Christian Gill’s Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (IndieBound), and I waited for months until it came out and...
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memoirists are amazing
I just finished Lucy Knisley’s latest comics memoir/travelogue, Displacement [IndieBound]. I’ve been having a lot of trouble reading lately, both because of time (traveling from the Bay Area to Tucson...
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