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Toxic Alan Fans and Their Disappointing Discourse

The author of X-Amount of Comics: 1963 (WhenElse?!) Annual assails the paucity of critical debate surrounding the work ...
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Don Simpson is the author of the Ms. Megaton Man™ Maxi-Series, a serialized prose novel. He is the cartoonist and creator of the comic book and graphic novel series Megaton Man™, Border Worlds™, and Bizarre Heroes™, and his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish.

Don reviewed fiction and nonfiction books for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for several years and taught writing, YA Lit, and other courses at universities in Western Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in Art and Architectural History from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013.

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