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As the new year start up, I will continue my challenge to reduce my comic / graphic novel selection that I've bought since 1988. Some items aren't worth selling on eBay, so I'll be offering them here at a discount price + shipping. Let me know if you are interested. Let's start with:
OIL AND WATER By Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man).
Price $0 + $5 s/h. Total cost: $5
Original price: $19.99
Hardcover, first printing 2011. Like new but it has my name and phone number taped on the inside cover. I brought these to work to loan to colleagues and students. No one wanted to borrow this one. Go figure.
Description (https://www.shannonleowheeler.com/oil-and-water): When ten Oregonians travel to the Gulf Coast in August 2010 to plumb the devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill, they discover that Oil and Water is just the first of the insoluble contradictions. Between the tarred sands of Grand Isle and the fouled waters of the Louisiana bayou, they come to find out that Gulf Coast residents are economically dependent upon the very industry that is wreaking havoc on their environment. In the shadow of the greatest ecological disaster of our time, they are forced to reassess their roles as witness, critic and environmental steward.
In this 144-page graphic novel — written by Steve Duin, a columnist for The Oregonian, and illustrated by Eisner-winning New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler — readers will tour the shark-pocked beach at Grand Isle with the local head of Homeland Security; step aboard the crabbing boat of a 20-year-old Mississippian who works 16-hour days and spends his nights dreaming of M.I.T.; enter the Hot Zone where volunteers work desperately to save brown pelicans drenched in British petroleum; and hear shrimpers, Vietnamese and good ol boys alike, describe what happens to their livelihood when 200 million gallons of oil flood the scene. The readers perspective on what hope and what mission remains along a ravaged coastline, and one awash in both seafood and oil, will be changed as irrevocably as that of these ten Oregonians."
Peace, Maka
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Like I said somewhere else, I typically lose money on these auctions compared to what I paid for the comics/graphic novels. But the goal is to read and enjoy the comics, have fun writing the auction description and determining what price I think they can sell for, making someone else feel like they got a good deal, and reducing the amount of stuff my family will have to get rid of (and the reduce the amount of guilt of throwing away Dad's comics) when I pass on. 
Not good for the old ticker.