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Tom Garback

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Tom Garback (he/him) is currently pursuing an MA in Writing and Publishing at Emerson College, where he is Co-President of Undergraduate Students of Publishing (“Pub Club”). He is also Publisher of Wilde Press, a non-profit publisher that releases four new titles a year. Tom has worked as Staff Writer, Copyeditor, Editor, Designer, and Marketing Associate on eight different literary, lifestyle, and fashion magazines during his time in college. He has also written for The Digest, a lifestyle magazine based in Hoboken, New Jersey. In his spare time, Tom enjoys singing with his a cappella group, hiking the Appalachian trail and other high up places, and working in student government. His fiction, poems, and essays have been featured in numerou ...more

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Nowhere near as moving, intellectually probing, and poetic as Fun Home, but it is a lot easier and more fun. It’s meandering, and I grew to like that. It’s also about a ton of depressing things, yet I never
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It’s a bit rushed and under-explained in places, which I guess is the nature of writing a graphic novel about a complicated piece of literary and political history. It also doesn’t help that I don’t have near
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It’s a bit rushed and under-explained in places, which I guess is the nature of writing a graphic novel about a complicated piece of literary and political history. It also doesn’t help that I don’t have near
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I feel bad saying this was a bit mediocre, because nothing about it bothered me. It’s just not that scary or memorable or remarkable. But the art is good, and it’s a quick read that kept my attention. Not a ba
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A ton of fun because they’re fast, colorfully illustrated horror shorts. Hard not to like. They’re not very smart or clever or original or anything, but they’re fun. It’s a light and spooky collection. And I
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