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Blurring the Boundaries between Text and Graphic, Word and Picture, Art and Culture

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The Love of Ed Piskor's Life (Besides Comics)

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The love of Ed Piskor’s life (besides comics) seems to have been a research scientist who taught at one of Pittsburgh’s many fine universiti...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Ed Piskor's Agent: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You!

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I keep returning to the point that no one has ever claimed to have been harmed by Ed Piskor in any way—not physically, emotionally, or in te...
Friday, July 5, 2024

The Ed Piskor "Grooming" Hoax: A Recap

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It has been ninety days since we lost Ed Piskor, a brilliant cartoonist and comics historian whose career was only beginning to ramp up. Her...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Beat to Death: The Ed Piskor "Grooming" Hoax

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On Saturday, May 30, 2024, an acquaintance messaged me: “Off topic, but can you believe all that crap going on with Piskor??” I hadn’t heard...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Newsflash: Multiple Women Were Fond of Ed!

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This hasn’t gone viral (yet), but I’m sure when the “trained ninja” staff at comics’ most lethal gossip site finds out about this, that will...
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Friday, May 24, 2024

The Death of Socrates and What We Athenians Should Do About It

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One argument that will surely trigger me in 2024 and beyond goes something like: “For all we know, Ed suffered from depression and was alrea...
Friday, May 17, 2024

The Comix Beat-Up Complete Guide to Outing Your Groomer!

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For decades, comix beat-up has been your source for finding out who will be rebooting West Coast Avengers six months from now! But we’re m...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Ed Piskor and Figure Drawing

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Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor discuss the importance of figure drawing in my work (transcribed from Cartoonists Kayfabe videos):
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Sunday, May 5, 2024

Read It and Weep: Collected Writings, April 2024

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I’ve posted a number of times on social media since the passing of Ed Piskor (1982-2024) and have written a couple pieces for publication el...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

F is for CKRS

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It’s all too easy to blame some abstract, toxic social media for recent events. That notwithstanding, this is what I wrote down in my privat...
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Donald E. Simpson
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.

Original and commissioned artwork by Don Simpson is available for purchase. Inquiries are welcome.

The E. is for Edward.

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