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“I’ve never seen a comma I didn’t like, and everything I needed to know about the proper use of the em-dash I learned from F. Scott Fitzgerald and <\/i>The Great Gatsby.”<\/i><\/p>\n“I’ve never seen a comma I didn’t like, and everything I needed to know about the proper use of the em-dash I learned from F. Scott Fitzgerald and <\/i>The Great Gatsby.”<\/i><\/p>\n
Writer, editor, journalist, coder, historian, and scholar, Allyn Gibson<\/b> is the quintessential “ink-stained wretch”–the former writer for Diamond Comic Distributors<\/a>‘ monthly PREVIEWS<\/i><\/b> catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor of its monthly order forms. In his nearly twenty years in the comics industry, Allyn interviewed comics luminaries including DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee and From Hell<\/i> artist Eddie Campbell<\/a> as well as cartoonists such as Bloom County<\/i>‘s Berkeley Breathed<\/a> and writers and celebrities such as William Shatner and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/a>. Allyn is also known for his short fiction, including the Star Trek<\/i> story “Make-Believe<\/a>,” the Doctor Who<\/i> short story “The Spindle of Necessity,” and the Brigadier Gerard story, “How the Brigadier Saved the Grand Duke<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress<\/a> since 2004, and, as a near-lifelong fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings<\/i>, developed the Shire Reckoning<\/a> plugin for the platform. Among his interests (and fodder for blogging) are baseball, history, politics, mythology, Star Trek<\/i> and Doctor Who<\/i>, Sherlock Holmes, building ebooks from scratch, the Beatles and jazz, and genealogy. Allyn is almost certainly the first graduate of Philippi, West Virginia’s Philip Barbour High School<\/a> to visit the grave of the school’s namesake, 19th-century Speaker of the House<\/a> and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court<\/a> Philip Pendleton Barbour<\/a> at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I’ve never seen a comma I didn’t like, and everything I needed to know about the proper use of the em-dash I learned from F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby.” Writer, editor, journalist, coder, historian, and scholar, Allyn Gibson is the quintessential “ink-stained wretch”–the former writer for Diamond Comic Distributors‘ monthly PREVIEWS catalog, usedContinue reading “An Ink-Stained Wretch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"panel-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30776","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}