Wrestling Comic Reads for All of Us Coping with Wrestlemania 36

Did you only start watching wrestling in your mid-twenties, like me? Are you extremely bummed that you won’t be seeing Orange Cassidy vs. Minoru Suzuki in April, like me? I put together lists of pro wrestling comics over at Bookshop.org (for those looking to buy now) and Goodreads (for those adding to their #tbr shelves…

Zine Cleaning, Part 1

The first time around, my approach to this project was, “I’m running out of space, I need to get rid of stuff.” I’ve since realized that I’d been defining “space” as “storage” with no consideration of what was being stored. Magazine boxes are simply not the fairest way to display items like zines and floppies.

The #tbr struggle is real

My thinking was that any diversions could be excused as long as I knocked a couple titles off the general tbr list and got through the same number of title that were on the monthly one, although I was certainly hoping for the added benefits of shorter ARC stacks and more shelf space. And then I realized a major wrench that would be thrown into this plan every month, inevitably. It’s a habit I’ve noted countless times, something I’ve been struggling to curb, reason with, consciously call myself out on:

Hello

I’m Elaine, a graduate of a tiny liberal arts college’s MA in Publishing program. Over the last three years, I’ve been studying comics, specifically, the specialized publishing practices that developed in the comics industry independently from traditional publishing. More recently, I’ve researched library marketing and indie comics distribution. (By research, I mean I wrote my…