Maddie Greene, Author at The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/author/maddie-greene/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:26:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Requiem for an Engine: The Warren Ellis comic board’s legacy https://www.theshareduniverse.com/requiem-engine-comic-boards-legacy/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:48:20 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=699 It was a strange and fruitful blip in the online comic community. Writer Warren Ellis’s comic book message board The Engine ran from early September 2005 to Aug. 31, 2007, birthing in its short life new comic books, ongoing collaborative superteams, Eisner and Harvey Award-winning projects, and at least one marriage. My affectionate memories are […]

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]]> Bad Buys: McSweeney’s Book Release Club https://www.theshareduniverse.com/bad-buys-mcsweeneys-book-release-club/ Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:29:25 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=368 On occasion we must gather to censure rather than celebrate those publishers who provide us book addicts with our fixes. I come to bury McSweeney’s Book Release Club, not to praise it. The indie darling of web and print has given me so much joy over the years (Adam Levin’s The Instructions! Lucky Peach magazine […]

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]]> Good Buys: Powell’s Books’ Indiespensable book club https://www.theshareduniverse.com/good-buys-powells-books-indiespensable-book-club/ Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:34:31 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=374 Book clubs are a good risk. The greatest risk of receiving regular books in the mail is that you won’t care for the book. As I love a shelf of handsome volumes, it’s a risk I happily accept. The risks are low with Powell’s extraordinary Indiespensable book club, Every six weeks Powell’s sends a curated […]

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]]> Mixed Media: A Shirley Jacksonesque conversation about Shirley Jackson https://www.theshareduniverse.com/mixed-media-shirley-jacksonesque-conversation-shirley-jackson/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/mixed-media-shirley-jacksonesque-conversation-shirley-jackson/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:59:13 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=337 “It’s just that,” said Miss Pryor as she stabbed her cigarette out, “there’s a rather beastly amount of italics.”“The better to brainwash you with,” said Ms. Queen, who was rather more cynical. “One hardly knows whether one is reading one’s own version of events or the author’s.” Miss Pryor was not against italicized words, as […]

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]]> https://www.theshareduniverse.com/mixed-media-shirley-jacksonesque-conversation-shirley-jackson/feed/ 1 Review: The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan https://www.theshareduniverse.com/review-hawkline-monster-richard-brautigan/ Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:13:33 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=313 As part of r/horrorlit’s Horror Novel a Day writers, I’m pretty sure of two things: I took on too many novels (six total) and my definition of horror is suspiciously broad. Take The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan. It’s more of a gothic western novella than a horror novel. (It is in fact subtitled A […]

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]]> Comic event: Dirt Candy authors to speak at Omnivore Books https://www.theshareduniverse.com/comic-event-dirt-candy-authors-speak-omnivore-books/ Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:01:16 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=139 Comics delight me to my core and cooking soothes my soul. So I loved Dirt Candy, a graphic novel that serves as both accessible cookbook and charming memoir, before I even owned it. How brilliant of Chef Amanda Cohen, co-author Grady Hendrix, and artist Ryan Dunlavey to combine the two arts of cookery and comics! […]

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]]> Mixed media: The sanctity of books https://www.theshareduniverse.com/mixed-media-sanctity-books/ Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:45:58 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=82 So there’s this book. It’s about a scary filmmaker and his scary films. This premise is not without promise. But what earned it a spot on Gawker is its accompanying smartphone app that offers up additional material when you scan certain pages. Furthermore, the book itself incorporates images throughout. The book, Night Film by Marisha […]

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]]> Saga wins a Hugo https://www.theshareduniverse.com/saga-wins-hugo/ Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:15:01 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=144 The 2013 Hugo Award winners were announced over Labor Day weekend and ongoing comic series Saga from Image Comics took the prize for Best Graphic Story. The Best Graphic Story category was introduced in 2009, when Girl Genius by Kaja and Phil Foglio won out over contenders like Fables, Y: The Last Man, and Joss […]

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]]> Publishing kerfuffle du jour https://www.theshareduniverse.com/publishing-kerfuffle-du-jour/ Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:48:04 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=84 Lit Reactor has a great précis of yet another thieving publisher. In addition to using an unregistered company with a name derived from a legitimate small press, this one is made particularly salacious by Trestle Press’s clearly non-sanctioned use of Ghost Rider images as cover art (among myriad other artistic infringements.) Check out examples of […]

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