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Alex Hoffman
May 19, 2017
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Truth Zone Antics: Thoughts on Portrait and Simon Hanselmann’s Recent Feud/Roast Comics

Truth Zone Antics: Thoughts on Portrait and Simon Hanselmann’s Recent Feud/Roast Comics Simon Hanselmann is one of alternative comics’ foremost gossipmongers and roasters; his Truth Zone comics, using his Megg, Mogg, and Owl characters, are comics as criticism; they show his take on recent events, his opinion on specific...

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Alex Hoffman
March 27, 2017
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Critical Jam #11: What We Talk About When We Talk About Scanlations

pebblesandjamjam: Welcome to Critical Jam, J.A. Micheline’s monthly column on criticism. I don’t write about unlicensed Japanese comics. I’d like to. There are some incredible BL cartoonists and books that I’d like to tell you about, for example, but the thing is: no English-language publishers have picked them up...

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  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
  • Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
Alex Hoffman
November 16, 2015
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Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers

A lot of this Fall has been about slowly revisiting works published around TCAF this year. Top of the stack is Virtual Candle, a 132 page full color paperback book from Space Face Books. Published as the first major collected edition of Grant Gronewold’s comics and illustration work (under the...

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