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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.

John Lydon

By: Adam McGovern

He clears away the worship that can cloud minds.

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Scott Walker

By: Adam McGovern

He skims the event-horizon of listenable music and bearable emotion.

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David Bowie

By: Adam McGovern

He colonized and abandoned serial worlds of sound and sexuality.

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Ben Katchor

By: Adam McGovern

He is the poet of what you think you might have heard.

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Julian Schnabel

By: Adam McGovern

He has become the portraitist of humanity.

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Adam West

By: Adam McGovern

As Batman, he disclaimed heroism without undermining it.

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Face Reality (2)

By: Adam McGovern

“Can we all get on the same script page, people?”

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Face Reality (1)

By: Adam McGovern

“Citizen journalist James Guile at your service…”

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ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

By: Adam McGovern

Her music is the model and message of accom­moda­tion without com­promise

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Idoru Jones (8)

By: Adam McGovern

“Some day, I aspire to actual earnings.”

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Idoru Jones (7)

By: Adam McGovern

“Another hitch at the shit-factory—literally.”

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Idoru Jones (6)

By: Adam McGovern

“Regards to our ever-swift security forces—”

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Idoru Jones (5)

By: Adam McGovern

“Pardon my programming language”

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Idoru Jones (4)

By: Adam McGovern

“Wot’s this then?”

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Idoru Jones (3)

By: Adam McGovern

“Stand by for Rapture!”

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