Douglas Wolk lives in Portland, Oregon, runs the record label Dark Beloved Cloud, and sings karaoke every Monday night. His most recent book is Reading Comics.

• July/August 2008: Rockin’ Pneumonia: And the Boogie-Woogie Flu
• September 2006: Games Doodlers Play: 5-Card Nancy; 1,000 Blank White Cards; Eat Poop You Cat!
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  June/July 2006: The Syncher, Not the Song
  The key to a Moldovan-Romanian boy band’s destruction of Europe was a 99-second webcam video of a teenager from New Jersey.
• September 2005: Aardvark Politick
  Dave Sim’s Cerebus, while at times idiosyncratically misogynistic, realizes an incredible twenty-seven-year project of comic-book brilliance.
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  June/July 2005: Perverted by Language
  Dense, scathing, and repetitive, the Fall’s appearances on the BBC contained some of the strangest and most resonant songs recorded.
• March 2004: Notes on Art So Bad It’s Good
  The art we call SOBIG: earnest schlock that blurs the line between just good and just dreadful.