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Strange Fruit #2 Misprint Hits eBay For $26
 It appears that certain issues of Strange Fruit #2 by Mark Waid and JG Jones has a peculiar misprint First it has been printed on the wrong aper stock And when you turn to the middle double pages… It appears to have been whitewashed. And, as a result, are selling for up to $26 on eBay…  How's your[...]
Joel Christian Gill Joins The 9th National Conference Of African American Librarians
He wrote the words and drew the pictures in Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History and Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth. Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History has received a lot of praise: The New York Times said: Still more thoughtful reflections come from Joel Christian Gill's graphic novel Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated[...]
A Comic Show – Invader Zim, Conman Lando & All New Archie!
Jones' Strange Fruit #1 is beautiful and ugly at the same time A powerful work with basically a black "superman" landing in 1927 Mississippi and fighting the Klan (and it has the best use of the rebel flag in comics ever) Big heads up on The Walking Dead #144, there's death so avoid spoilers. Star Wars:[...]
The Great Mississippi Flood Of 1927 Is Coming In J.G. Jones & Mark Waid's Strange Fruit
Jones (52, Wanted, Y: The Last Man) and Mark Waid(Irredeemable, Superman: Birthright, Kingdom Come) are joining forces to bring forth a personal passion project entitled, Strange Fruit From BOOM! Studios, Strange Fruit is set during the historic Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, in a fictional town called Chatterlee, Mississippi The story examines a heroic myth[...]
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Rage, Rage, Rage, Rage!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPz9rJzuGc[/youtube] Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. More comic talk this week than ever!  New graphic novels, the top 5 floppies, honorable mentions that didn't[...]
Boom! Launches The Fiction, Strange Fruit, Broke World, Freaks' Squeele And Clarence In June 2015 Solicitations
Coming from Boom! and all their imprints in June, including the launches of The Fiction by Curt Pires and David Rubín, Strange Fruit by JG Jones and Mark Waid, and Broke World by Frank J Barbiere and Christopher Peterson from Boom!, Freaks' Squeele by Florent Maudoux from Archaia and Clarence by Liz Prince and Evan Palmer from kaBoom! BOOM! STUDIOS THE FICTION #1 (OF 4) (W)[...]
Strange Fruit And JLA Cover The April 2015 Previews
The new Boom! series Strange Fruit by JG Jones and Mark Waid takes the front of next week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors… while Bryan Hitch's Justice League Of America takes the back. The Customer Order Form booklet also features a Boom! book, The Fiction by Curt Pires and David Rubin. While Marvel's Previews order form?[...]