Emmy the Great commissions a comic about her new album

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By Emmy The Great in New Art on Friday 25 May 2012

I released a Christmas album last year, and someone on our Facebook kept making amazing fan art to go with it. We tracked him down: his name was Paul Shinn and he was an illustrator/comic book artist. We asked him to make us a bunch of silly strips to give away in our advent calendar. I really loved his style of drawing. It reminded me of innocent Sunday newspaper comics, like Calvin and Hobbes or Garfield.

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The Useless Superpowers that Superheroes have
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The Useless Superpowers that Superheroes have

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 19 May 2012

With The Avengers getting everyone in hyperventilating fanboy and fangirl mode of late, it’s worth a reality check to revisit comic strips from the 40s to the last decade and look at the useless superpowers that superheroes have. We imagine the cosmetic surgery industry would take a huge interest in Spiderman’s chest expansion powers.

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