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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.

Kern Your Enthusiasm (2)

By: Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern on DATA 70

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Fourth World (5)

By: Adam McGovern

In which we come full-circle to Kirby’s source.

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Fourth World (4)

By: Adam McGovern

The Fourth World’s undiscovered testaments

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Fourth World (3)

By: Adam McGovern

Kirby comes home again.

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Fourth World (2)

By: Adam McGovern

Kirby makes love, not intergalactic war.

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Fourth World (1)

By: Adam McGovern

Had He But Worlds Enough, and Time…

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Judy Garland

By: Adam McGovern

The embodiment of What You Didn’t Talk About.

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Laurie Anderson

By: Adam McGovern

Classic virtuosity with lowly gimmicks.

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George Takei

By: Adam McGovern

An athletic, quick-witted sex symbol.

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Melora Creager

By: Adam McGovern

The unquiet, wandering spirit of the freshly possible.

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Piet Mondrian

By: Adam McGovern

His grand-scale pixels pull you close.

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Lou Reed

By: Adam McGovern

Lover of noise, angel of the unaccepted.

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Katy Perry

By: Adam McGovern

A consciously anonymous persona yet a conspicuously anomalous presence.

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Kickstart NIGHTWORLD

By: Adam McGovern

Jack Kirby vs. Mario Bava — in a feverdream!

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William Carlos Williams

By: Adam McGovern

Bridging irrecon­cilable ideas was the matrix of his art.

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