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Ken Parille

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College teacher of literature, children’s lit, comics, writing. Author/editor of books on Daniel Clowes, nineteenth-century boyhood, guitar playing. Author of essays on comics and boyhood in academic journals and elsewhere. Friend to All Cats Everywhere.

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 35m

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Reminisces from Clowes, Altergott, Bagge, Buell, Mott, Parker . . . .

Mort Todd is Dead Dead: RIP Michael DelleFemine - The Comics Journal

Friends and colleagues remember the life of Michael DelleFemine, better know as Mort Todd, who became editor of Cracked magazine at the age of 23.

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 56m

Steve Ditko and Frank McLaughlin Captain Atom #89 Page 2 Original Art (Charlton, 1967).

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 56m

I learn from reading comics. “kings x” — which I only knew as a band’s name: “used as a cry in children's games to claim exemption from being tagged or caught or to call for a time out.”

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for asking. I will, for sure. I have been feeding and interacting with some in the neighborhood often. Everyone tells me to get one soon, but I just can’t . . . Not yet.

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I miss my perfect friend.

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Frazetta “try-out” page

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Abner Dean

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Sandy the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 18h

Hello, I’m Sandy Jarrell and I draw and color. Here’s some sequential work! On this #portfolioday, unlike most, I’m actively seeking gigs.

Full portfolio here: sandyjarrell.myportfolio.com

Norse Mythology 2 issue 6, breakdowns by P. Craig Russell, letters by Galen Showman.

The Legendary Lynx! Colors by Grey Allison, Letters by Jack Morelli. Words by Alex Segura.

Legion of Superheroes dance party, from Jimmy Olsen’s SuperCyclopedia

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 19h

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Dreaming Darkly | Secret Lair

Jim Woodring’s surreal pen-and-ink art twists the familiar into something strange and unforgettable. His work brings a dreamlike edge to Magic unlike anything we’ve done before. The cards in Dreaming ...

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 19h

Jim Woodring Magic cards:

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 21h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

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