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Comics History

Terry Moore: what his work made possible

Three demonstrations that the community considered improbable in 1993. An influence which is not measured by the successors but by the arguments that it has withdrawn.

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Terry Moore in French: a fragmentary translation, and why

A self-published author has no one to sell his rights abroad. What it involves before starting a series, and how to compose despite the gaps.

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Terry Moore: what really grabs his readers

Neither the plot nor the drawing: the dialogues. How they work, what they allow, and why his stories are reread.

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Terry Moore on a low budget: the order that limits risk

One hundred and fifty chapters in total. One volume to test, two short series to confirm, the major work last, and the three unnecessary expenses to avoid.

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Comics History

Self-publishing for thirty years: the Terry Moore model

Advance printing, go through the distributor, decide on reprints, manage stock. What the model requires, and the traces it leaves on objects.

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Twenty years: a disappearance that lasted, and why

A disappearance holds when it has a structural function, not just a dramatic one.

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Supergirl: reading an ad title that contains two contradictory dates

In an ad title, the year that counts is the one that accompanies the name of the collection, not the one that accompanies the character.

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Supergirl: search for a character whose name is not yet spelled the same

Three formulations to designate the same thing: research that uses only one misses the others.

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Start at the end of an issue, in another's series

The position in the summary is information that the market integrates and that inventories ignore.

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Strangers in Paradise Interludes: Read Them or Skip Them

Poems, songs, silent plates. What they do to the story, the argument of those who reject them, and why the binding matters here.

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Francine and Katchoo: how to last ninety chapters

Two characters constructed in opposition on everything except the essential. Why we judge one wrongly, and why David is not a rival.

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Strangers in Paradise: the publishing trap

Three number ones, three collections of collections, reprints invisible from the front. The only stable unit is the chapter range.

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