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College teacher of literature, children’s lit, comics, writing. Author/editor of books on Daniel Clowes, nineteenth-century boyhood, guitar playing. Author of essays on comics and boyhood in academic journals and elsewhere. Friend to All Cats Everywhere.

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I’ll have to check, but I think it was billed as a preview in the first printing and since the series had long been cancelled by 1992, and Eightball had been going since 1989, it didn’t make sense to reprint it.

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In Clowes’s PATIENCE, the main character time travels to 1985
(on page 85 . . .)

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Clowes’s career began in 1985 with Cracked #216.
He did the art for ‘Aren't You Nervous When’. — a 2 page comic with a script by Michael Weitz.

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It’s the first appearance of Lloyd Llewellyn, whose series would start in 1986, though #1 has a December 1985 first printing date.

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A comics landmark. 40 years ago, Love and Rockets #13 was released. It includes Daniel Clowes’s first comic to be published by Fantagraphics. I couldn’t verify the precise on-sale date, but it has an August 1985 first printing date, another poster seems confident it was out this week 40 yrs ago.

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These moon-seared brains train easily . . .

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Alcala

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“There are more money managers than humanities professors on the search committee.”

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4 RELIGIOUS STUDIES FACULTY: Where are the humanities professors? Lawyers, financiers, teachers, students and, yes, Olympic swimmers belong on the search committee. But, surely, faculty members who carry out a core mission of the University belong there, too.

On the search committee for the new UVa president, zero humanities professors. I hate to see my old school move away from one thing that has always made it special.
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...?

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A funny joke with a Pre Fab reference! Once again, thanks, Sean.

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Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman & Emil Ferris All Support Angoulême Boycott Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Julie Doucet, Dan Clowes, Posy Simmonds, Lewis Trondheim and Emil Ferris all support Angoulême 2026 boycott

bleedingcool.com/comics/chris...?

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RIP Joyce Brabner

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