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SPX '09 | The Critics Roundtable, transcribed
SPX '09 | The Critics Roundtable, transcribed
Here's what we talk about when we talk about comics. In front of a packed house at September's Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, a group of critics from around the comics Internet and beyond talked shop at the annual Critics Roundtable panel. Moderated by Bill Kartalopolous, the panel ...
What the Comics Journal Does Right
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Daily OCD: 11/5/09
FLOG! Entries — ... • Panel: Robot 6 posts a transcript and MP3 of the Critics Roundtable panel from this year's SPX, featuring our own Gary Groth and several other names who will be very familiar to Daily OCD readers ...

Nov. 6, 2009: How nice for you
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal — ... 20th-century commercial artist. (Above: Glanzman drawing for the March 29, 1952 issue of Collier’s.)   [Commentary] My Gahan Wilson story Link: Mike Lynch Rapunzel cartoons are easy…   Comics Culture   [Scene] SPX critics’ roundtable Link: Sean T. Collins Transcription of the panel at the recent-ish Small Press Expo, ...

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/6/09
THE BEAT — ... § Collins is BACK with a transcription of the near-sighted, white male critic’s roundtable at SPX, including Bill K. Douglas Wolk, Collins, and non-nearsighted participants like Gary Groth. ...

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