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George Gene Gustines

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Kenya The New York Times world
25 Jun 2024
NEW YORK — Most comic book stores would frown upon their customers sitting on their floor and reading, but Loot is not like other shops. Here its young clientele — who would not qualify for most amusement park rides — was intently reading comics, discussing them or hard at work making their own.
A Comic Store Where the Children Create
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
12 May 2021
The new animated movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” introduces men and women who have taken on the mantle of the arachnid and the credo “with great power there must also come — great responsibility!” Given how successful “Spider-Verse” is already — a Golden Globe nomination for best animated picture, unbridled enthusiasm on Rotten Tomatoes, a new appreciation of Spider-Ham — plans for turning it into a franchise were inevitable. Luckily, comic books have featured more than 100 Spideys ...
Standard-Issue Spidey and His Many Iterations
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
14 May 2019
Is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York the biggest comic book character of 2019? Her story has all the twists of a comic book origin: She’s a former bartender and activist turned congresswoman; she’s a confident public speaker and a social-media whiz (where she once quoted from the “Watchmen” graphic novel); and she’s a champion for progressive issues and the environment.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a Super Hero? This Comic Book Thinks So
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
21 Mar 2019
American Ronin, about highly trained corporate operatives; Fight Girls, about warriors vying to be queen of the galaxy; and Bad Mother, about a parent searching for her missing daughter: These are some of the stories that are coming from a new comics publisher, Artists, Writers & Artisans, one that is posing the question, what stories could we develop if we begin with a blank slate?
A comic book publisher creates its own origin story