Happy Holidays. Currently on the site:

Monday, December 5, 2011

Comics with Problems #47: Fear of a Dead Newspaper — Holiday Edition.

Happy Holidays, everybody. As this year comes to a close we reflect on the impending demise of one of our favorite things, printed newspapers. We have three gifts for this segment, which we're titling "Fear of a Dead Newspaper".

Item Number One:
LET'S READ THE NEWSPAPER!
(Fear of a dead news organization)

Item Number Two:
Selling GRIT in 1959 and 1977
(Fear of a dead newspaper delivery job)

and Item Number Three:
1972 Kenner Toy Comic Book Catalog
(Fear of a dead newspaper toy insert!)

Happy holidays from Comics with Problems and Charles Dickens. HO HO.

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Monday, December 18, 2011

One more big holiday gift to you, a pristine copy of an incredibly rare anti-communist screamer:

"WILL YOU BE FREE TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN THE FUTURE? COMMUNISM IS OUT TO DESTROY YOU!" (1957)

click for a giant scan, happy holidays.

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Monday, November 21, 2011

NEWS Update on
John Wilcock: New York Years, 1954-1971 (bio comic)

Scott and I are well underway through the next update for the John Wilcock comic. You'll really enjoy it when posted. In the meantime, here's some very appreciated press mentions:

First up, thank you to New York magazine's Approval Matrix:

Approval Matrix for November 21, 2011

• Second, Big thanks to Boing Boing and Salon.com
  (Along with Print Magazine and Steven Heller)
  
  
• And, hey, thank you to the New Yorker

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Very appreciated, all of that.

Read John Wilcock Issue #1: Beginnings.
(issue number two up soon)

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

SHAMEFUL

The Dumbest thing on Ebay: some asshole is selling downloadable PDF files of the Occupied Wall St Journal for $9/file:

link

Quoting: "The first two issues of The Occupied Wall Street Journal ... Papers are in PDF form."
Starting bid: $0.99 / Shipping: $7.99 - Eight dollars to email a file? DOUBLE SHAME.

Meanwhile, one of the best things on the Internet, you can download the exact same files for free from the publishers here.

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Humor Item: Ho Ho Whoa
T.S.A. puts a snowglobe in a larger "no-globe" graphic:

when you say snow globe,
we say no globe. Sincerely, TSA

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Featured work:

Teddy
Love story (see also

LIVE AT HARRY'S LOFT
Music, Now available in the U.S.

JOHN WILCOCK: New York Years, 1954-1971
By Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall

1957 atomic revolution comic book
Lucky find