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Farewell, “Daddy” Doo-Wop

Despite Winston-Salem’s self-ascribed status as “The City of the Arts,” its hipness factor is generally somewhat lacking; there are, however, a few jems to be found in the area. Unfortunately one of those few venerable institutions is ending as of tonight: The “Daddy” Doo-Wop show on WSNC, the Winston-Salem State University radio station. For something …

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The Supposed “Mainstream” in Comics

This little essay is a response I wrote to a message board posting. Here’s the original post: I think the reason people assign themselves to being mainstream or the reason they don’t give Indys a fair chance is because, and I may get a lot of backlash for saying this, but there aren’t that many …

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Uhhhh….

Putting the “action” back in “action figure”: (Click for larger image)

The Amazing Poodle Boy

From the coupons section of a recent Sunday edition of The Winston-Salem Journal:

San Diego Travel Trauma

My advance travel plannning for this year’s San Diego Comicon has so far been less than hassle-free, as you can read about in my letter/warning published at Tom Spurgeon’s blog, The Comics Reporter: Comicon, Travel Planers and the U.S. Grant Hotel