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Free Comic Book Day in Clearfield introduces public to the drawn word

Last updated Sunday, May 5, 2013 - 8:22am

CLEARFIELD — The stacks of comic books End Zone Hobby Center gave away to customers on Saturday were gone within minutes.

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Free Comic Book Day

Steve Smith

Last updated Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 9:48pm

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Tyler Kirkham, an established professional illustrator for clients including Marvel comics, has drawn the characters of "The Family Troll" to look like himself and his wife, Jill. The Kaysville couple wrote the book and are raising money on kickstarter.com to publish it with the goal of donating their work to children in foster care, in adoption and in other difficult circumstances that take them away from their families. (Courtesy illustration)

Troll helps Kaysville couple offer hope, healing to those who want a child

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 11:52pm

KAYSVILLE — There’s one couple here who would love nothing better than to find a magic formula that would help them conceive.

The two say they’ve tried just about everything. And now, they’ve turned to the only magic they know is for real — the magic of taking their minds off their troubles and focusing on helping others.

Tyler and Jill Kirkham have written and illustrated the children’s book “The Family Troll.” In a roundabout way, the story tells of the magic that can be created when a family adopts a child.

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Carter Reid works on a comic sketch of a zombie at his Sunset home recently. Reid is the creator of “The Zombie Nation” and sells related merchandise at thezombienationcom. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

Sunset man draws fame by luring fan base for ‘Zombie Nation’

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 28, 2012 - 2:32pm

SUNSET — Sleek, sexy vampires had better watch out when it comes to the public’s monster of choice. Slow-footed, stumbling zombies appear to be gaining on them.

Carter Reid, a Sunset cartoonist, illustrator and owner of “The Zombie Nation,” is eating up all of the monsters’ popularity, similar to how a zombie devours its prey. Vampires are inherently more serious, the 38-year-old father of two said, while zombies tend to be less serious in lending themselves to humor.

“They are kind of the country cousins of vampires. It’s hard to think of a super-sexy vampire doing something humorous,” Reid said in explaining the surge in the popularity of zombies, and as a result, the surge his three-year-old side business is experiencing.

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Rachael Williams, co-owner of HeeBeeGeeBeez, which has four locations in the Top of Utah, is back in school, studying chemistry at Weber State University. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

There’s no stopping technology, so comic book store owner heads back to school

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 17, 2012 - 5:34pm

LAYTON — Near a Godzilla figurine, Marvel posters and a box of discounted comic books lies an open college chemistry textbook. A black-draped table has many chairs around it, waiting for the next casual Magic card tournament.

Rachael Williams greets each customer, most of them regulars, with a smile at her Layton business. It’s all a picture shaped by the economy of late.

“I needed a backup plan,” says Williams, 29. “This is a paper-run business, and paper is going away. People are going to download their comics to iPads. I have no illusion about that.”

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Jonathan Pust, Chris Jepsen and Rachel Williams (left to right) at The HeeBeeGeeBeez warehouse located at 3171 Harrison Blvd. in Ogden that holds more than 2 million comic books.

Ogden warehouse boasts one of world's largest comic book collections

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 3, 2012 - 7:16am

OGDEN — Just a few years ago, Ogden joined the comic book world map.

Luck — both good and bad — led to Ogden becoming the site of one of the world’s three largest shoppable comic collections, said Jonathan Pust. It took a lot of work and five blown tires before HeeBeeGeeBeez business partners Pust and Rachael Williams could offer their customers 2 million comics.

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Comic-Con fans walk on Fifth Avenue near the San Diego Convention Center before preview night at Comic - Con on Wednesday July 11, 2012, in San Diego. (Photo by Denis Poroy/Invision/AP)

Comic-Con San Diego 2012

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 11:23am

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This Feb. 13, 2012 handout photo provided by Heritage Auction , shows the CGC-Certified 6.5 copy of Detective Comics #27 from the Billy Wright Collection at Heritage Auctions in Dallas,Texas. On Wednesday, the collection is expected to bring more than $2 million when Heritage Auctions offers the comics at auction in New York City. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)

Childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M at auction

Jamie Stengle The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 6:00pm

DALLAS -- The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published sold at auction Wednesday for about $3.5 million.

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Colin Meloy performs with his band The Decemberists in Los Angeles.

Decemberists' Colin Meloy tunes into book world with 'Wildwood'

Susan Carpenter Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 12:24am

LOS ANGELES -- A baby is snatched by crows. His sister treks into the woods to find him and is followed by one Curtis Mehlberg, "son of Lydia and David, resident of Portland, Ore., comic-book fan boy, persecuted loner."

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