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  • ...that speech balloons (example pictured) are used in comic books and strips to allow the characters words and thoughts to be viewed by the reader?



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  • ...that Joye Hummel (pictured) wrote 70 of the early Wonder Woman comics but she was not included in official histories?
  • ... that Darktown Comics, a series of racist caricatures, was a perennial bestseller for Currier and Ives and by 1884 represented a third of the company's production?



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  • ...that Len Lawson created several popular Australian comic book characters, including the "Lone Avenger" and the "Hooded Rider"?
  • ...that Harvey Pekar described his collaboration with Heather Roberson on the comic book Macedonia as one of the best working relationships he has ever had?
  • ...that an excerpt of Nick Bertozzi's The Salon containing a nude depiction of Picasso caused a comic book store owner to be charged with distributing obscene material to a minor?

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  • ... that the graphic novel Building Stories by Chris Ware was published as a box that contained fourteen printed objects, including cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets, and flip books?

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