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Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists

Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists Review

2011, Minnesota Historical Society Press Written by Britt Aamodt Beneath the colourful imagery, comic books have always held a certain tragedy. Behind every fantastical world and heroic individual rising against the forces of evil there’s some poor, solitary soul confined to a drawing board, wondering how they were ever naïve enough to believe that drawing/writing […]

Avatar: Collector's Vault 3D

Avatar Collectors Vault Book 3D Review

Published by Whitman Publishing / Titan Books James Cameron’s “Pocahontas in Space” may not have been the first 3D cinema experience, but it’s certainly proven to be the third dimension’s most prominent emissary. While cynical cinephiles interpreted Avatar’s success as further proof that visual gimmickry will compensate for all manner of plot deficiency, the fact […]