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A comic book and television writer who worked on the animated series Garfield and Friends and wrote the wordplay-driven comic Groo the Wanderer, but is arguably best known as a historian of the medium — his biography Kirby: King of Comics is a standard account of Jack Kirby's role in shaping the American comic book. His long-running column and blog, News from ME, has chronicled the industry's inner workings for decades.