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	<description>I read comics and then write about them.</description>
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		<title>Does Biography Work in Comics?</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/10/23/comics-biographies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Gilbert Hernandez]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IDW]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Baker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Thompson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
&#160;
Presidential Material: John McCain
By Andy Helfer and Stephen Thompson
Presidential Material: Barack Obama
By Jeff Mariotte and Tom Morgan
IDW — saddle-stitched, $3.99 each

(Disclaimer: I gave money to Sen. Obama in both the primary and general periods of the current election. Read that into the following as you will.)

POLITICAL CARTOONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN a part of American elections, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Un-understandable Understanding Comics&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/10/10/the-un-understandable-understanding-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art Spiegelman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Book Publishers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Powell's Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Readings/Signings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
THAT&#8217;S HOW ART SPIEGELMAN INTRODUCED the new edition of his 1978 book, Breakdowns—newly subtitled Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&#38;*!—onstage at the Baghdad Theater Thursday night.
Referencing Scott McCloud’s primer on the form early into Spiegelman’s talk makes sense, as the content of Breakdowns reflects Spiegelman stretching his conception of what a comics page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand New Day</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/09/02/brand-new-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Horse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wright Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I ADMIT, not a lot of reviews lately. Part of that is a lack of time, between work and class and a few other things. Part is probably laziness.
But something else was also a big part of it: Today was my first day as an assistant editor at Dark Horse. Continuing to write reviews was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School&#8217;s Out––For the Fall!?</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/08/31/schools-out-for-the-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ON TUESDAY, most of Oregon will go Back to School. By contrast, Monday will be my first in 10 weeks in which I&#8217;m not dragging books to Portland State University for my summer class, &#8220;Contemporary Comics Theory.&#8221;
Last Monday, I got back my final paper, a survey of different techniques in the restoration and recoloring of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Academic</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/08/28/lets-get-academic/</link>
		<comments>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/08/28/lets-get-academic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I finished a summer course at Portland State University, &#8220;Contemporary Comics Theory&#8221; (devoting a lot of my energy to this is one of several reasons that reviews haven&#8217;t been forthcoming lately). It was a great experience, turning me onto a lot of readings I wouldn&#8217;t have found otherwise and the only opportunity I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The history of Essex County, some remembered, some forgotten</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/08/05/review-essex-county-minis/</link>
		<comments>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/08/05/review-essex-county-minis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Lemire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minicomics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Top Shelf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Essex County]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


The Essex County Boxing Club




The Sad + Lonely Life of Eddie Elephant Ears
By Jeff Lemire
2 minicomics @ $3CAD





THE ESSEX COUNTY GRAPHIC NOVELS HAVE BEEN OUTSTANDING, thanks to Jeff Lemire’s beautiful, quirky art and wistful portrayals of haunted people. Their fictional yet familiar setting seems capable, like Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, of producing an endless supply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Review - Cue the &#8220;Spooky&#8221; Synthesizers!</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/29/review-x-files-0/</link>
		<comments>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/29/review-x-files-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akiyo Horiguchi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wildstorm]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brian Denham]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sptonitz]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[X-Files]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

The X-Files #0
By Frank Spotnitz and Brian Denham
DC/Wildstorm – saddle-stitched, $3.99



SO, my boyfriend, Brendan, asked me to write a review of the new X-Files comic because I’ve been a huge X-Phile (that’s an X-Files fan, if you haven’t figured) for literally an entire half of my life.  As a teenager, my bedroom wall was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best news, and it&#8217;s only Thursday</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/24/the-best-news-and-its-only-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/24/the-best-news-and-its-only-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Comic-Con]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dark Horse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guy Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve been waiting years for more Marquis by Guy Davis. Turns out I&#8217;m going to have to wait until 2010, but at least now I know it&#8217;s coming.






It&#8217;s moved publishers yet again (it was originally previewed at Caliber and the two volumes I own are from Oni), this time to Dark Horse, but it&#8217;s coming. [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Brendan</media:title>
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		<title>John Bolton realizes Paul Chadwick&#8217;s visions</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/17/review-gifts-of-the-night/</link>
		<comments>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/17/review-gifts-of-the-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Chadwick]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vertigo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gifts of the Night]]></category>

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Gifts of the Night
By Paul Chadwick and John Bolton
DC/Vertigo – 4 saddle-stitched @ $2.95



AFTER THE CONCRETE BINGE OF EARLIER THIS YEAR, I looked for more Paul Chadwick to read and came up with Gifts of the Night. There aren’t a lot of examples of Chadwick writing and not drawing, but his collaboration with John Bolton [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Brendan</media:title>
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		<title>Wright Opinion - The Paper Edition</title>
		<link>http://wrightopinion.com/2008/07/12/wright-opinion-the-paper-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Wright</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Wright Stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ALL RIGHT, plugging a plug is probably lame, but I haven&#8217;t been doing this long, so it&#8217;s still new and exciting:


If you&#8217;ve ever skipped a Wright Opinion interview because you simply don&#8217;t want to read that much text on a screen, there&#8217;s now an alternative! 
My complete interview with Brian Michael Bendis appears in print [...]]]></description>
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