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My name is Emma Pettinelli and I'm currently a junior at Ringling College of Art and Design studying Computer Animation. This blog is for the class Literature of Comics & The Graphic Novel. These will be weekly posts on comics I've read and what I thought about them.

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Week 15: Underground Comics REDUX

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