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Anne Elizabeth Moore has been called “Fun” by FastCompany, a “rad writer” by Time Out New York-Kids, a “notable underground author” by the Onion, and, although they didn’t know it, "a perfect altruistic punk-rock super-heroine” by the Hipster Book Club. Her work has been reviewed in USA Today, Mother Jones, Forbes, the Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly, and she’s been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Murketing.com, Bookslut, Indymedia and on Chicago Public Radio and WFMU.

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Interviews
Submedia TV

National Conference on Media Reform panel (audio)

Q&A With Anne Elizabeth Moore, Rob Walker’s Murketing.com

An interview With Anne Elizabeth Moore, Bookslut

Seeing Red, New City

Marketing At the Dinner Table, The Indypendent

Moore, Anne Elizabeth: Lumpen asks our favorite renaissance woman a few questions
to keep us on track.

Name That Toon, Time Out - Chicago

Anne Elizabeth Moore, Bad at Sports

Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore from Punk Planet and Series Editor of Best American Comics 2006. From December 4, 2006,"The Speakeasy with Dorian" - WFMU
Listen to the whole show: Real Audio | MP3

Chicago Hear the 848 Interview with Steve Edwards. Go here then scroll down or dowload here.

The Real Hot 100!

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Reviews
Unmarketable | Best American Comics | Hey, Kidz: Buy This Book! | The Comics Journal

Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting,
Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

[Made Reclaim the Media’s 2007 and 2008 Media
and Democracy Summer Reading lists]

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“*****”—Time Out Chicago (full review)

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"Conversational, intellectually curious, and charmingly ragged, Unmarketable is an anti-corporate manifesto with a difference: It exudes raw coolness."—Mother Jones

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“Real-life examples pack a punch, as do her irreverent and occasionally salty language. Engaging to read, yet don’t lose sight of her plea for integrity. Worth noting.” —Booklist

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“An intelligent, funny, and frequently dispiriting study. . . . an authentic work about the collisions of corporate culture and counterculture that everyone who cares about any culture should read.”—Bitch

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Unmarketable contains “the frisson of a murder mystery. While that mystery is never solved, the questions Moore raises are basic and uncomfortable. And that’s not punk, that’s just necessary.”—EyeWeekly

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“. . . Still, it is getting harder to trust that which looks or sounds independent.”—Forbes

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“The case studies are wittily related . . . and while it explores contradictions and grey areas, Unmarketable mainly serves to emphasize how ‘integrity’ and ‘emotional connections’ are increasingly being sought from independent artists by large corporations at a knockdown price.”The Guardian

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Offers “something distinctly more radical than merely protesting against consumerism: a total rejection of the competitive ethos that drives capitalist culture.”LA Times

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“This is a work of honesty and, yes, integrity.”—Kirkus

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“Sharp and valuable muckraking.” —Time Out New York

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Best American Comics 2007(website)

“Brilliant.”—Kirkus

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Best American Comics 2006
[Made the Publishers Weekly bestseller list at #7 for January, 2007]

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“A. . . . 30 of the wittiest, weirdest, and most touching comics.”—Entertainment Weekly [#9 on the October 27, 2006 “Must List”]

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“A diverse overview.” —USA Today

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“Improbable and poignant.”—Boston Globe

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Hey, Kidz: Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propoganda and Artistic Activism for Short People
[Made Yes!'s “Media That Set us Free” list and Reclaim the Media's Media and Democracy Summer Reading List 2004]

“Want to raise the next Che Guevara or Angela Davis? . . . If you want your child to be creative and learn about the real world, pick it up.”—Tastes Like Chicken

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“Should be required back-to-school reading” —The ITT List, In These Times

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“Funny, feisty, and useful.”— The School Library Journal

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"Clearly deserves a place in the curriculum." —The Asheville Global Report

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“Potentially deadly to the corporate media-state.”Deek

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“It's not like regular nonfiction, because it's funny and entertaining.” —Orlando Weekly
(guest writer, 10-year-old Hunter Ferguson)

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"Hey Librarianz! Buy This Book! Seriously, stop what you are doing RIGHT NOW and RUN to buy multiple copies of this book for your libraries and every kid age 10 and up you know. If part of our goal as young adult librarians is to meet developmental needs of teens to raise literate, participating citizens who think critically, we need to get this introduction to media literacy into classrooms and libraries across America."Hip Librarian's Book Blog

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“Advises children and parents on how to counter the wiles of commercialism.”
Get You Lit On: The Rise of Political Books for Children
—The Boston Globe

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“A useful and occasionally whimsical resource. "Time Out New York—Kids

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Zine Trend Catches on at School —The Grand Rapids Press

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“Should be required back-to-school reading” —The ITT List, In These Times

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“Funny, feisty, and useful.”— The School Library Journal

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“If this book finds its way into the hands of just a few kids, then it’s done us a world of good.”
No Logo for Kids
—Fabmagazine

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“Know a kid? Or even if you don't: Hey Kidz! Buy This Book."
—“The Majority Report,” Air America

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“Even military brats need to know these things.”The Military Home Schooler

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Reviews of The Comics Journal Special Edition

“A.” —Entertainment Weekly

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“Should not be missed . . . .will help raise comix out of its artistic ghetto.”Time.com

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“Sally (Featuring: Lollipop the Rainbow Unicorn)”

I was honored to convince one of my favorite writers and a friend, Elizabeth Crane, to let me publish her delightful book about joy and happiness and sincerity You Must Be This Happy To Enter under the Punk Planet Books imprint. She, meanwhile, wrote a story based on, well, me (and my favorite kite), called “Sally (Featuring: Lollipop the Rainbow Unicorn).” It is totally great. Even if it weren’t a story that featured a plethora of actual events from my real life I would try to pattern myself after the girl in the story, because that is how great it is. Subsequently, reviews began appearing that singled out not only that great story, but its main character, leaving me, sort of, having been reviewed, sort of, as a person.

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“possibly perfect protagonist”—Village Voice

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"a perfect altruistic punk-rock super-heroine”Hipster Book Club

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“a woman who has always been comfortable in her own skin.”Washington City Paper

 

 
 
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