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Posted by Barry Lyga | Jun 18, 2012 | Geeking Out, Memory Monday
Despite its somewhat unsavory reputation, the comic book industry has actually historically been staffed by fairly liberal and progressive types. Which is why I am not surprised by the sentiment of the following splash panel...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Jun 15, 2012 | The Publishing Biz, This Week in Rejection!
There’s so much to admire about this rejection letter from Indigenous Fiction, circa 2001. Take a gander: For one thing, the rejection itself (paragraph 1) is polite and doesn’t condescend. Then, in paragraph 2, we...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Jun 11, 2012 | Geeking Out, Memory Monday
I am, sadly, not a credentialed Comics Historian. But I’m pretty sure this is the first time in comics history that a super-hero has caught his wife cheating on him. (From Sword of the Atom #1, September 1983. Written by...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Jun 8, 2012 | The Publishing Biz, This Week in Rejection!
I find the humble opening of this one (“We appreciate that you think enough of Mid-American Review to want your work to appear in it.”) sort of charming…
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | Jun 6, 2012 | Writing
Here is the cover to the final book in the Archvillain trilogy, featuring — at last — Mighty Mike! Archvillain: Yesterday Again will be out in January.
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