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I've always been fascinated by comix; superhero and fantasy comics always seemed cheesy to me. Even as a kid, I preferred Judge Dredd and Too Much Coffee Man to the X-Men or whatever the big studios were pushing. In high school, my pal Alex lent me his copies of Maus I and II which opened my mind to the discursive possibilities of comix. Lately, my interest in comix has been renewed: I've wanted to flesh out my collection of Black Hole comix, last week I read Guy Lawley's "I Like Hate and Hate Everything Else: The Influence of Punk in Comics" in Punk Rock So What: The Cultural Legacy of Punk, and now the cover feature of today's New York Times Magazine dicsusses the state of the graphic novel comix. Gosh, I may have to head over to Austin Books this afternoon...