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Author: Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern has written for Image Comics (Nightworld; Aquaria), Dark Horse Comics, GG Studio and others. His poems and essays have appeared in venues including The Rumpus and LA Review of Books, and he lectures on comics and culture at institutions including California State University and the Biblioteca Salaborsa in Bologna, Italy. His own blog is at Fanchild and his face is in a book here.

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His one-panel cartoons contained dystopian novels.

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Bowieology (7)

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2010s, a spacetime odyssey

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Exile on mainstream

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Bowieology (5)

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All the world is staged

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Bowieology (4)

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A different man, a richer man

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Bowieology (3)

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Bowie sells his plastic soul

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Bowieology (2)

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The Passion of Ziggy

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Bowieology (1)

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Midcentury Postmodern

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It’s never too late to be too soon.

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Spellbound

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Annie Nocenti’s new DC comic, KLARION

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Mark Rothko

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He painted the portrait of everything our eyes always miss.

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People You Meet in Hell (5)

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Hotspot’s debt to Burt Ward

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People You Meet in Hell (4)

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Hellena’s debt to Eva Peron

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People You Meet in Hell (3)

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Underboss’s debt to F.W. Murnau’s FAUST

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People You Meet in Hell (2)

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Lidia’s debt to Scilla Gabel

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