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Draper Carlson On Fun Home posted June 20, 2010   Johanna Draper
Carlson has been reviewing comics on-line through a devoted web
site (and a billion other places) for a little more than ten
years now, and was on Usenet reviewing comics for seven years
before that. If 80 percent of any life's endeavor is showing up,
Johanna was pulling high marks in comics reviewing long before
anyone else in this series, myself included, thought about
joining class. One thing I find fascinating about Johanna's
outlook on comics is she maintains a strong sense of comics as
objects of consumption. After she's rapped some company in the
nose with a rolled-up product representing a less than stellar
effort, it's hard not to refer to her as the North American
comic book industry's leading consumer's advocate as well as one
of its more popular reviewers. One book on her list was Alison
Bechdel's Fun Home. -- Tom Spurgeon   TOM SPURGEON: Johanna, you
and I were recently cit