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Robert Boyd

(He/Him)
Houston
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, Substack, Chron, The Beaumont Enterprise, Comics Journal Magazine, Glasstire, The Great God Pan Is Dead
Covers:  Art, Comics, Culture
Doesn't Cover: Sports, Video Games
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Robert Boyd’s Biography

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Robert Boyd was born in Melbourne, Australia, and grew up in Houston. He spent his teen years painting, making super-8 movies, drawing comics, and publishing 'zines. He has a BA in art and art history from Rice University. From 1989 to 2003, he worked in comic book publishing in various capacities, working with such artists as Chris Ware, Jules Feiffer and Robert Crumb as well as co-curating Misfit Lit, a large traveling exhibit of alternative comics art, in 1992. In 2009, he founded The Great …

Robert Boyd’s Journalist Portfolio

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F gallery is the unsung gem of the Houston art world

F gallery is the unsung gem of the Houston art world

For as much as we associate art with large, powerful institutions like museums, a lot of it comes from somepl…

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Myth and Legend: Dawolu Jabari at the Galveston Artists Residency | Glasstire

Myth and Legend: Dawolu Jabari at the Galveston Artists Residency | Glasstire

Dawolu Jabari is an artist concern with African American history, myth and culture. Combining this with his e…

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The Last Night at the Media Center | Glasstire

The Last Night at the Media Center | Glasstire

The Media Center at Rice University has shown thousands of movies to generations of undergraduates and the ge…

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Sharp by Havel+Ruck in Houston (and the specter of gentrification) | Glasstire

Sharp by Havel+Ruck in Houston (and the specter of gentrification) | Glasstire

Art in Houston stops at the 610 Loop. A few small institutions exist outside the Loop, and many artists live …

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Patrick Renner's "Bounty" at Redbud | Glasstire

Patrick Renner's "Bounty" at Redbud | Glasstire

I am reading The Lives of the Artists, a collection of Calvin Tomkins' profiles that he wrote for The New Yor…

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Ellsworth Kelly in Space: Katy Heinlein's Snake Eyes | Glasstire

Ellsworth Kelly in Space: Katy Heinlein's Snake Eyes | Glasstire

When I was in high school, I got a book on Impressionism for Christmas one year. I can't remember who wrote t…

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Slave-Raiding, Solidarity and Status in Africa

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By Nwando Achebe, Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Paul Lovejoy
| ggd.world
For centuries, millions of African people were captured and coerced into slave trades. The Saharan trade, the Red Sea trade, the Indian Ocean trade and the trans-Atlantic trade all plundered and exported enslaved people. 12 million were taken from Africa to the Americas. A further 6 million people were exported in other trades. As many were coerced into inland slavery - under Islamic states. 300 years of intensive slave-raiding led to predatory states and pervasive insecurity.
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Slave-Raiding, Solidarity and Status in Africa

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By Nwando Achebe, Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Paul Lovejoy
| Substack
For centuries, millions of African people were captured and coerced into slave trades. The Saharan trade, the Red Sea trade, the Indian Ocean trade and the trans-Atlantic trade all plundered and exported enslaved people. 12 million were taken from Africa to the Americas. A further 6 million people were exported in other trades. As many were coerced into inland slavery - under Islamic states. 300 years of intensive slave-raiding led to predatory states and pervasive insecurity.
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DNAzyme‐Catalyzed Site‐Specific N‐Acylation of DNA Oligonucleotide Nucleobases

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By Morgan M. Kennebeck, Caroline K. Kaminsky, Maria A. Massa, Robert Boyd
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Introduction Site-specifically modified oligonucleotides are valuable for biochemical and biophysical investigations.1 One particularly interesting nucleobase modification is N-acylation of the nucleotides cytidine (C), guanosine (G), and adenosine (A). Natural N4-acetyl-C (ac4C) influences RNA translation and other biologically relevant outcomes,2 and N-acylation at any of the nucleobases can be used to introduce biophysical labels.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I bought my first typewriter in high school with lawn-mowing money. I used it to produce a 'zine for several years. An electric Royal.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Word, Excel, PowerDirector

What's your favorite social network?

I hate to admit that it's Twitter. They are all terrible to one degree or another, but they do keep me connected with friends.