Tag Archive | "Image Comics"

McCool. Templesmith. Choker. Looks like a hit. But I am biased

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Full disclosure bit – Ben McCool is a friend of mine and has been for years – we worked together at Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham, him a mere baby, me not quite so young,  I watched him take his first steps to being a comics writer, and like so many people who have had [...]

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Image Comics and the CBLDF – Giving you Liberty

Sunday, September 20, 2009

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(Detail from a Frank Miller CBLDF T-shirt) The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has been tirelessly fighting censorship and defending the first amendment rights of comic book professionals in the United States for the last 23 years. And the latest CBLDF benefit book is really shaping up to be something of a special event. [...]

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McCool & Templesmith on Choker

Friday, September 18, 2009

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I used to work with Ben McCool back at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham for several years before he left to travel to America and find fame and fortune as a big time writer of comics. I don’t know how he’s doing for money (he still owes me several drinks) but the fame thing seems [...]

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Unlike Morrissey, I don’t hate it when my friends become successful: Choker by Ben McCool & Ben Templesmith.

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Once upon a time back in the days when I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham, I worked with one young Ben McCool; manic, effervescent, incredibly personable, an amazing drinker and a spectacular character who could instantly control a room with the sheer force of his personality. When Ben flows into anecdote [...]

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