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20 min read 2022-11-22 19:00:43

An Appreciation of Kevin O’Neill, 1953-2022

With the sad news that Kevin O’Neill has died this month, the British comics world is once again in mourning. In recent years we have seen the

4 min read 2022-10-30 08:55:19

Welcome to the Wellington Comic Lover’s (WCL) Guide, where we take you through the Wellington City Libraries’ collection of a comic book

2 min read 2022-10-09 01:03:46

A light wheel. Via. • “Part of the instrument’s draw is its fallibility. Famously, or perhaps infamously, every Rhodes is different: some

3 min read 2022-07-25 00:06:05

It’s been six months or so since I last added anything to my series of posts inspired by the excellent occasional series of interviews that The

12 min read 2022-05-18 18:00:13

In the world of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, a number of objects and occurrences are famously conspicuous by their absence. The most

18 min read 2022-04-18 19:00:06

It is one of the vagaries of an artistic calling that a person's entire career can come to be defined by a few key works, often created in their 20s

6 min read 2022-03-26 11:00:00

I do believe that I will make reading V for Vendetta an annual event. I was very much taken with my most recent reading of this dystopian comics

5 min read 2022-03-01 12:00:00

"Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember." - Elie WieselArt Spiegelman's Maus has

4 min read 2022-02-01 23:25:00

The fascist wave of book banning in public schools is depressing and dangerous, but let's also take Mr. Rogers's advice and look for the helpers,

6 min read 2022-01-10 11:30:58

http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts5/WaitWhat334.mp3 00:00-7:51: Greetings from the distant year 2022! You are catching Jeff and Graeme In

1 min read 2021-12-01 00:40:06

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 [Amazon, Amazon (Collected), Local

1 min read 2021-11-26 03:46:37

This is, I think, one of the most discussed comic book stories of all time, so I don’t know that I’m going to have a whole lot that’s new to

1 min read 2021-11-17 21:39:58

Sometimes a book will leave such an impression that we just have to reread it a second, third, and fourth time—or more! At Writer’s Relief, we

1 min read 2021-11-08 23:46:56

Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen’s command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and

1 min read 2021-11-08 08:10:36

http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts4/WaitWhat330.mp3 0:01-5:57: Greetings! You catch us in a very potty mouthed media res as our first five