Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. — Read the rest

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The Merrimack Valley Collection is a legendary comic book collection in which someone bought comics off the rack and stored them in a cardboard box for almost 80 years. Heritage Auctions sold many of these comics in a couple of auctions in Dallas last week. — Read the rest

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Cartoonist Matt Bors has teamed with artist Tristan Wright to create a new comic book version of the early 90s TV kids' cartoon series "The Toxic Crusaders." While the cartoon series was edgy for a children's TV show, this new comic book version is for adults and is more explicitly political, with its gross-out humor serving critiques of capitalism, environmental malfeasance, and crimes against humanity. — Read the rest

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If you like Tove Janssen's Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you'll surely love the above "Diving with Shells" mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The €46,023 sale price, though, set a record at Muumimukit rahaksi, a website specializing in Moomin rarities. — Read the rest

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Here's a cool Kickstarter project featuring the comic book art of Denis Kitchen, an underground comics publishing legend, founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and agent for both Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. Kitchen is best known as the publisher of Kitchen Sink Press, but he is also a great cartoonist. — Read the rest

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