odd effect if you do this…
Kind of a yin and yang…
 Yes.  One’s a history of Marvel Comics, the other’s an oral history of Fantagraphics. Two different conceptions of just what is it “Comic Books”, companies in juts and starts making their way…
It’s worthwhile putting these two books next to each other, and just flipping back. Â But there mostly at a couple of intersection points. How’s Jim Shooter’s going at Marvel at the time he’s testifying on behalf of Michael Fleisher?
Study the Hero’s World purchase, and the consolidation of Diamond as a comic book industry distribution monopoly.
The question that hovers over the Marvel book is — erm? — When did Marvel Comics lose it, if they ever really had it anyway? Â So goes the story of Marvel — a long series of short term business decisions booming and busting before being bought by Disney. Â The story of Fantagraphics: Â a line of unprofitable comics they believe in subsidized by a number of sell-outs, most notably porn, and the rights to a 26 volume epic on the adventures of a boy and his dog.