Unpacking the Bookstore

A Social (Mon)Dragon

Sarajane Snyder, current owner of Mondragon Bookstore, likes to talk about gardening, which reflects the large gardening section within the many shelves of the store. Sarajane even equates her ownership of Mondragon to that of a perennial. Perennials have three...

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A Metropolis for Comics History

In 1842, the American company Wilson & Co. published what is now called the first American comic: an English reprint of the French comic "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck". Published originally in French and Switzerland in 1837 by Rodolphe Töpffer, this...

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