Category Archives: independant media

On ESSEX COUNTY & Canada Reads

Picking up steam and recognition has been Jeff Lemire’s epically beautiful comic series Essex County and it’s climb up the ranks of rating as a potential winner of the Canada Reads literary debate, which was aimed at essentially picking THE … Continue reading

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An essay on IRON MAN 2

I’ve talked about my love of “Iron Man 2” here before and why I loved it, admittedly cheap and shallow reasons centering around explosions and robots and particle accelerators. However, this essay does a really good job of laying out … Continue reading

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The case of the Comico art

A story floating around the Internet today is a recent eBay listing that claims to be selling a huge chunk of production materials and artwork from Comico Comics, the once-huge indie publishing company that unfortunately went bankrupt in 1990.  At … Continue reading

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My Money’s On You

Dessa, “Alibi” –

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the Cheapo Bin

Leor Galil, a blogger/music journalist who’s of the vein of writer that I totally love and respect (I like to think of it as the post-hardcore/post-PUNK PLANET style of journalism), has a new project going called Cheapo Bin. I used … Continue reading

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If you don’t hate humanity enough…

…then there’s always Estate 4.1. Mike Sterling of Progressive Ruin runs this delightful project, which basically scours Yahoo! News and finds the stupidest and more offensive comments on misc. news stories.  I mean it’s pretty brain-hurting and offensive, but at … Continue reading

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