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A customer browses at bridge city comics, 3725 n mississippi ave. Each issue holds three issuelength chapters of new work from various creators. Pretty deadly artist emma rios and king city, prophet, and multiple warheads writerartist brandon graham bring you a new ongoing comics magazine. I ended up drawing the front cover much larger than the standard 11 by 17 i normally work atmaybe twice the size. Onta shows how two very different guys spend a day at the gay pride parade. Each issue holds three 2030 page no ads issue length chapters of new work from around the globe. Plus the recolored return of fil barlows fun, bizarre, plastoid conspiracy science fiction. Coming up in november is rhode island comic con november 1012. Comic book store on staten island is calling it quits. Rhode island comic con held its first event in 2012 at the rhode island convention center and took two years to prepare.
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