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Comics: A Beginner’s Guide: Adventure Strips
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— 10 Jul 2008 Martin Skidmore 5 comments

All of my favourite newspaper strips were at the comedy end of the market – and it is worth noting here how big an influence Segar’s Popeye was on adventure strips. Nonetheless, there were some great adventure strips, back in the days whe[…]

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A thing I did not know and a thing I did know
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— 10 Jul 2008 Tom 9 comments

i. Tooty Frooties are still being made!
ii. They are still completely horrible :([…]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time No. 41. t.a.T.u. – Not Gonna Get Us
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— 10 Jul 2008 Pete Baran 7 comments

There is a strange double headed hydra lurking at the centre of pop marketing. The first head is the music. The music is the product, and the music is what people are buying. If the music is good enough, surely there is no need for extraneous marketi[…]

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