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was a comics website focusing on small-press, independent, and self-published comics. It featuring previews, interviews, reviews and news. Owned and written by Zainab Akhtar, the site was nominated in 2014 for an
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Akhtar quit the blog, announced a relaunch in 2017, but abandoned it again in 2022. The site remains defunct as of 2023.
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