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"I enjoyed the evening very much. Your piece has nothing to do with my movie, it merely has the same story."

-Ingmar Bergman to Stephen Sondheim, as recounted in Finishing the Hat

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First things first: Fantagraphics has delivered a beautiful new edition of Tardi’s classic series, collecting the first four volumes of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec: Pterror Over Paris, The Demon of the Eiffel Tower, The Mad Scientist, and Mummies on Parade. The cover is sleek and elegant – although I admit I preferred the rougher feel of ...


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Warren Bernard in his home library

If you’ve been fortunate enough to attend the Small Press Expo any year since 2011, you’ve likely seen Warren Bernard zipping by, talking to staff, exhibitors, guests, and...


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Richard Bruning, 1980s

The apex of the DC Comics career of Richard Bruning arrived in 2005 when, after a campaign of 20 years, he finally killed the DC Bullet. Ever since arriving at the publishe...


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Richard Bruning has never really come to terms with the DC Bullet. The Milton Glaser-designed logo, debuted by DC comics alongside their official name change in 1976, has long been regarded as a classic of comic book design, but to hear Bruning tell it, it’s nothing but a sum of its errors: it’s too unbalanced, too loud, and above all it positively reeks of the 1970s.<...


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