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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.

Idoru Jones Returns! (1)

By: Adam McGovern

“We plundered the treasurehouse of knowing”

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Edward P. Jones

By: Adam McGovern

He doesn’t presume to know who made us but he can tell what makes us how we are.

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Cat Power

By: Adam McGovern

Annie Nocenti’s CATWOMAN has to create herself on her own

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Kirk Your Enthusiasm (10)

By: Adam McGovern

Captain Camelot

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Frida Kahlo

By: Adam McGovern

Her art reflected feelings that no one could speak.

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Ray Bradbury, RIP

By: Adam McGovern

His optimism was almost unreasonable, but we needed it.

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Grace Jones

By: Adam McGovern

She’s the perfect package.

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David Cassidy

By: Adam McGovern

David Cassidy vs. David Bowie — who won?

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Diana Ross

By: Adam McGovern

The archetypal brand of the iconic mass-culture chanteuse.

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Green Arrow — on target

By: Adam McGovern

In praise of Nocenti’s kaleidoscopic, quick-witted first issue.

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Will Eisner

By: Adam McGovern

He showed most comic auteurs how it’s done.

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Rihanna

By: Adam McGovern

Most pop is escapism; this is sanctuary.

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Fred Van Lente

By: Adam McGovern

He revitalized comics by having read something else.

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Death Boogie

By: Adam McGovern

Help send Death Boogie to the largest Arts Festival in the world!

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Melody Gardot

By: Adam McGovern

Librettos as supernaturally sophisticated as her melodic sixth sense.

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