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Harry Kassen

@leekassen

He/They. Comics and comic art collector/dealer. Sometime comics critic (Comics Anatomy and Features Editor at Comics Bookcase, and more). New York City.

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Biggest book yet coming right along.

10.02.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery

Soviet Land: I wasn’t familiar with this book, or Pierre-Henry Gomont, but I had a fantastic time. Gorgeous and very well conceived and realized. Definitely worth your time. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

04.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery

I Am Their Silence by Jordi Lafebre: A book I’d been looking forward to, and a beautifully drawn, breezy murder mystery. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

04.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t want to talk about it until it was actually happening, but I’ve begun reviewing graphic novels for Booklist. My first reviews, of Soviet Land and I Am Their Silence (linked below) are out now in the February issue! (Spoiler: I really liked them both.)

04.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ComicConnect Event Auction #64 Preview YouTube video by CAF+

It’s that time again. Another ComicConnect auction means another Comic Art Live stream where we talk about the highlights. Come join us at 9 PM EST. www.youtube.com/live/C7BAEK-...

01.12.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ComicConnect Event Auction #64 Preview YouTube video by CAF+

It’s that time again. Another ComicConnect auction means another Comic Art Live stream where we talk about the highlights. Come join us at 9 PM EST. www.youtube.com/live/C7BAEK-...

01.12.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First Sazerac of the season

08.11.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s like people say, there’s a first time for everything.

05.11.2025 03:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just messaged on discord

04.11.2025 00:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone have any familiarity with early Family Guy episodes who can help me out with a work thing?

03.11.2025 23:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A small black notebook

A small black notebook

Berni Wrightson’s 1983 illustrated edition of Frankenstein.

Berni Wrightson’s 1983 illustrated edition of Frankenstein.

More bookbinding tonight, including some timely repairs on a classic.

23.10.2025 04:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Heroes is great. I highly recommend it.

22.10.2025 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, really nice running into you as well. Hope to see you at another show soon.

22.10.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks!

02.10.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Eric. I botched a couple things but as a prototype I’m pretty happy with it.

02.10.2025 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My latest bookbinding project.

02.10.2025 02:14 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about the crazed influencer doing a selfie video while everyone else is fleeing and then tainting the crime scene is that THIS IS WHO THE TOP TWO PEOPLE AT THE FBI ARE, TOO

12.09.2025 00:57 πŸ‘ 853 πŸ” 165 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with β€œtransgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.

12.09.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 7129 πŸ” 1809 πŸ’¬ 266 πŸ“Œ 210
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Black Flame a book by Gretchen Felker-Martin. A queer horror novella about the occult, cult cinema, queer desires and other things left on the cutting room floor. Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay and Cassandra Khaw. From the USA Today bestsellin...

Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin doesn't come out until November here in the UK, but I think I'll pre-order it and put it away as a Christmas present to myself. Perhaps you'll consider doing the same.

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

11.09.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so glad Josh Shapiro held the flag at half-mast for this noble protector of the Jewish people

11.09.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Black Flame Check out Black Flame - <p><b>An instant <i>USA Today</i> bestseller!</b><br><br><b>One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in </b><b><i>Black Flame</i></b><...

Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

11.09.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 328 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 17

Pure cowardice, and sadly not the first example of this we’re going to see.

11.09.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

DC Comics Cancels β€œFourth World” Line After Creator Jack Kirby Admits To Killing Nazis In WWII

11.09.2025 13:34 πŸ‘ 359 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

He was doing all of this anyway. This basically changes nothing, except we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk whining about it anymore.

11.09.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

on a practical note, gretchen is now out about $1400 a month (DC’s opening page rate is still $70 for writers, yeah?) so please go buy her books (MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME) andβ€”very important!β€”leave short, *glowing* reviews about them online to help with the algorithm

11.09.2025 12:35 πŸ‘ 308 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

11.09.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 6320 πŸ” 1102 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 78

Wish the news outlets and baseball teams (lol???) rushing to eulogize a D-tier right wing mouthpiece would include some of their favorite inspirational quotes from the guy. Should be easy, right? Show me that soaring rhetoric and big thinking worthy of such veneration

10.09.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 1124 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

This is disgraceful. We all know Trump and the American right's views on free speech and that's they want to decide who this right applies to. The race to legitimise this perversion by major American institutions is appalling appeasement that leads nowhere but the gutter.

11.09.2025 12:09 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0