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Jason Mojica
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Founder and Editor, Xylophone Media
New York
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Biography
Jason Mojica is a Peabody Award-winning producer whose news and documentary work has taken him to more than 30 countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea. He is the co-host of The Modernist Society, a podcast spinoff of a storied Washington, DC gathering. In 1989 at the age of 15, Mojica started publishing small press comics out of his parents’ basement in Cicero, Illinois under the moniker Rocco Comics. Rocco later grew into a publisher of zines (co-publishing with Maximum Rocknroll the DIY resource guide Book Your Own Fuckin’ Life #3), and punk rock record label. In the Chicago of the late 1990s, Mojica co-founded the iconic Jinx cafe, as well as cult video store Big Brother. During that time he also served as editor and publisher of the Chicago-centric independent film magazine Spectre. In 2006 Mojica and friends successfully crowdfunded, produced, and directed Christmas in Darfur?, a film about the humanitarian crisis on the Sudan/Chad border. For the next twelve years his career focused on hard-hitting news and documentary films covering politics, crisis, and conflict for Al Jazeera English and Vice Media. In 2018 he started Xylophone Media to help bring provocative films, podcasts, and comic books kicking and screaming into existence. His hobbies are writing in the third person, and starting super PACs.
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By Jason Mojica| Publishers Weekly Verified Periodical comics made the leap from convenience store spinner racks to trade paperback collections at bookstore chains in the 1980s. And while the transition did present some initial challenges to booksellers—in those early days, it wasn’t uncommon to see superhero titles shelved next to Garfield in the “humor section”—the move proved both lucrative and permanent. Today, comics can be found wherever books are sold, with big-box retailers devoting considerable real estate to graphic novels
By Jason Mojica| Publishers Weekly Verified Periodical comics made the leap from convenience store spinner racks to trade paperback collections at bookstore chains in the 1980s. And while the transition did present some initial challenges to booksellers—in those early days, it wasn’t uncommon to see superhero titles shelved next to Garfield in the “humor section”—the move proved both lucrative and permanent. Today, comics can be found wherever books are sold, with big-box retailers devoting considerable real estate to graphic novels
By Jason Mojica| Publishers Weekly Verified It’s no secret that comics fans can be particular about their favorite characters, creators, and even publishers. Savvy retailers trade on that passion by suggesting readalikes—appealing to the readers of series ranging from Archie to Hellboy. Below are new releases that comics retailers are putting in readers’ hands this season. Tom Marquet, Partners and Son(Philadelphia) Milk White SteedMichael D
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Xylophone Media
New York, United States