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" I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male. "

Noelle Stevenson

History

Perfect

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Characters

Always

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