To gasps of horror, and outbursts of outrage from comic collectors that anyone might even consider such evil, American cartoonist Michael Neno has re-released his Life-Changing Guide to Decluttering Your Comic Book Collection. Caution: content may be triggering…
It seems that for some, there comes a time in your life when you really do need to let go of all those comics you’ve had in long boxes for decades, before slugs, snails, wraps or the occasional mouse get to them first. Fortunately, Michael has come up with this nifty guide to make the whole process less painful! Even for those feeling pain at the very thought!
Surely a great addition to any collection – oh, wait…
Michael Neno’s Life-Changing Guide to Decluttering Your Comic Book Collection is available here
Independent creator Michael Neno began writing, drawing, and self- publishing a series of digests and mini-comics back in the 1980s, as part of the New Wave or Small Press movement. Two of his series, This Eternal Flaw and Pictures of Benevolence, won critical acclaim, and his The Get-A-Lifes #1 was named best mini-comic of the year by Small Press Feedback magazine.
Michael also began to produce freelance penciling, inking and lettering in the early ‘1990s, for such comic books as AMF’s Cosmic Waves, and entered the field of art design with his logo and CD cover art for the indy group Dark Dixie (“The Manson-Nixon Line”). In 1995, he began a three-year long stint lettering for the internationally published cartoonist-provocateur Paul Pope/aka Pulp Hope (THB, Heavy Liquid, Batman: Year 100, 100%), contributing to his One Trick Rip-off graphic novel serialised in Dark Horse Presents, as well as various THB-related stories published by Pope’s own Horse Press.
His many, many credits since include Reactionary Tales, written, drawn and published the minicomics Junior Class Drawings, What To Do When Approached By a Creepy Clown, What is Document No. 30? and The Quacky Pig Nursery Rhyme Book.
He’s also responsible for Underwater Cats, created posters for musicians Mark See, Dawn Landes, Moon High and Billy Cash, and designed an album cover and concert poster for Tod and the Bad Reasons, created concert posters for the New York bands Judex and The Wholly Saints, curated art exhibitions, and much, much more.
• Michael Neno’s Life-Changing Guide to Decluttering Your Comic Book Collection is available here
• Michael Neno is online at nenoworld.com | Follow his eclectic blog, Eventized
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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