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Beyond Superheroes: How Creators Can Own Comics

Posted at 7:12AM Monday 11 Feb 2013

"This is a really exciting time for comics," – a phrase increasingly heard in the last couple of years as big budget superhero films rake in the dollars while critically acclaimed graphic novels pick up literary awards and column inches respectively. The sheer breadth of the comics medium almost guarantees that many are overlooked, and yet one area does seem a little more unloved than others – even as it provides some of the greatest success stories.

New Statesman

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