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The Comic-Strip Writer Who Became a Legend

The Comic-Strip Writer Who Became a Legend

The New Yorker — Héctor Germán Oesterheld's pulp adventures won him a devoted following-and made him a target of Argentina's junta. One of the few things we know about the end of the comic-strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld's life is that he was allowed to smoke a cigarette on Christmas Eve in 1977.
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How Kate Beaton Paid Off Her Student Loans

How Kate Beaton Paid Off Her Student Loans

The New Yorker — The Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton is a master of liminal spaces. Her drawings are accomplished and often beautiful, but her work is distinguished above all by the quality of attention she brings to the areas between the panels of her comics.
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The Cute and Horrifying World of Jim Woodring

The Cute and Horrifying World of Jim Woodring

The New Yorker — "Where do you get your ideas?" is a question that most authors dread. The cartoonist Jim Woodring has a simple answer, although it's likely to elicit more and stranger questions.
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Marvel and DC face backlash over pay: 'They sent a thank you note and $5,000 - the movie made $1b...

Marvel and DC face backlash over pay: 'They sent a thank you note and $5,000 - the movie made $1b...

The Guardian — atch any superhero movie and you will see a credit along the lines of "based on the comic book created by", usually with the name of a beloved and/or long-dead writer or artist.
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Journalism still has power. But not the way you'd hope.

Journalism still has power. But not the way you'd hope.

Columbia Journalism Review — Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality, Iraq War veteran, and one-time guard at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, often receives compliments for his commentary on Fox & Friends, the popular morning show Hegseth frequently guest-hosts, from President Trump. Hegseth was briefly considered by Trump to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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The fascist next door: how to cover hate

The fascist next door: how to cover hate

Columbia Journalism Review — At UNC Charlotte in North Carolina on Tuesday, April 30, a 22-year-old man allegedly shot six people in his anthropology class with a handgun, wounding four and killing two. Three days earlier, on the last day of Passover, in Poway, California, a 19-year-old man walked into a synagogue with what police described as an "AR-type [...]
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One conservative group's successful infiltration of the media

One conservative group's successful infiltration of the media

Columbia Journalism Review — In editorials and juicy quotes to news organizations across the nation, restaurant workers are speaking up against paying tipped workers a minimum wage. Six restaurant workers, specifically. This group is the all-white board of an opaque 501(c)4 called the Restaurant Workers of America (RWA), funded by restaurant owners, that regularly appears with restaurant industry trade [...]
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Frank Miller: 'I wasn't thinking clearly when I said those things'

Frank Miller: 'I wasn't thinking clearly when I said those things'

The Guardian — After stirring up outrage lambasting Muslims and Wall Street protesters, The Dark Knight Returns creator has been awol from the comics world. He discusses the mentor who got him back on his feet, what he thinks of Donald Trump, and his new prequel to 300
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Stinger Missiles And Shady Deals: Ex-Biz Partner To Trump Has A Tall Tale To Tell

Stinger Missiles And Shady Deals: Ex-Biz Partner To Trump Has A Tall Tale To Tell

Talking Points Memo — In December 2015, an Associated Press reporter asked Donald Trump why he had appointed Felix Sater, a man who'd been convicted for stock fraud, his senior advisor. "Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it," Trump told the AP. "I'm not that familiar with him." The feeling is not mutual.
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Mike Mignola: Why I'm ending Hellboy to go paint watercolors instead

Mike Mignola: Why I'm ending Hellboy to go paint watercolors instead

The Guardian — Mike Mignola's Hellboy is one of the most widely praised and visually distinctive comics of the last three decades, spawning two critically acclaimed Guillermo Del Toro movies, several spin-off comic books and assorted paraphernalia from action figures to video games.
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How a digital divide leaves parts of rural America isolated

How a digital divide leaves parts of rural America isolated

The Guardian — It's been two years since Sonia's husband's fatal heart attack. Almost anywhere else in the United States, emergency services could have helped her. But in an isolated corner of the 27,000 square miles that constitute the Navajo Nation, she, her daughter and one of her granddaughters had to manage without technology most of the rest of America takes for granted.
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No Matter How Your Heart Is Grieving: Disney for the Sad

No Matter How Your Heart Is Grieving: Disney for the Sad

the-toast.net — At the time of this writing, the Walt Disney Company does not control the weather in Orlando, Florida, but for some reason it is a surprise to arrive at Disney World's French Quarter resort under cover of darkness during a mild cloudburst, a little like catching your grandmother sleeping in church.
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