Alan David Doane
Alan David Doane
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Meanwhile, in Upstate New York...
Male
43 years old
GLENS FALLS, New York
United States
Last Login: 12/18/2009
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Alan David Doane's Interests
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| General | Comics, graphic novels, journalism, autobiography, communications, the impending end of the world as we know it. | | Music | Peter Gabriel, Green Day, The Beatles, Moby, James Kochalka Superstar, David Gilmour, Lindsey Buckingham, Death Cab for Cutie, Colin Clary, Duran Duran, INXS, Nirvana, The Police, Simple Minds, Tool, U2, Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby | | Movies | Citizen Kane, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil, Ghost World, Crumb, Donnie Darko, Dark City, Shaun of the Dead, Fargo, Glengarry Glen Ross, The End of Suburbia, Sicko, Dirty Pretty Things | | Television | 24, The Shield, The Office UK, The Office US, Twin Peaks, 30 Rock, Extras, Spaced, Star Trek '66, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House, Boston Legal, Life, Battlestar Galactica | | Books | The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, The Long Emergency, World Made by Hand, Atlas Shrugged, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot, From Hell, Louis Riel, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Crecy, American Elf, Fantastic Butterflies, The Stand, The Great Movies, Locas, Palomar | | Heroes | Orson Welles, Hunter S. Thompson, Larry David, James Kochalka, Alan Moore, James Howard Kunstler, Michael Moore, Carl Sagan, Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann, Roger Ebert, Barry Windsor-Smith, B. Krigstein |
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Alan David Doane's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Glens Falls, NY | | Body type: | 5' 11" | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Some college | | Occupation: | Radio Broadcaster |
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Radio - Production - Producer
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Copywriter and Production Director for a group of five radio stations in Upstate New York.
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Publishing - Writer - Journalist
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Comics critic since the mid-1990s, my reviews and commentary have appeared in The Comics Journal and on the websites Comic Book Galaxy, Silver Bullet Comics, Newsarama and others.
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Alan David Doane's Companies
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Adirondack Broadcasting
Queensbury, NY US
Production Director/Copywriter
Production Department
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2005-Present
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WAMC - Northeast Public Radio
Albany, NY US
Producer/Assignment Editor
News Department
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2001-2004
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Metro Networks
Latham, NY US
News Director
News Department
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1999-2001
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Bradmark Communications
Queensbury, NY US
News Director
News Department
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1991-1999
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Normandy Broadcasting
Glens Falls, NY US
Overnight Announcer
Programming
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1989-1991
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WKAJ-WASM
Saratoga Springs, NY US
News Reporter/Anchor
News Department
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1986
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Jedco Broadcasting
Corinth, NY US
Overnight Announcer
Programming
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1987
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WKAJ-WQQY
Saratoga Springs, NY US
News Reporter/Anchor/Fill-In Announcer
News/Programming
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1987-1988
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iTaggit
Austin, Texas US
Expert Blogger
Comics
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April, 2008-Present
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Fantagraphics Books
Seattle, WA US
Contributing Writer, The Comics Journal
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2004-Present
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About me:
I'm Alan David Doane, husband and father of two. I've been a radio broadcaster since 1985 and a writer about comics and graphic novels since the mid-1990s. I created and maintain the website Comic Book Galaxy, which first debuted 1 September 2000.
Favourite Quote:
"Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who I'd like to meet:
Orson Welles, John Lennon, Jack Kirby, Carl Sagan
All right, even more about me:
I was born in 1966 in upstate New York, and lived in that area there until my family moved to Florida when I was around 8 years old. My earliest memories of living in New York involved being given comics by my mom as I was recovering from having my tonsils out when I was six years old, and later walking down a half-mile or so to the downtown area of the town we lived in to the drugstore that had an extensive comics rack to satisfy my earliest comics fixes with Spider-Man, Archie and Richie Rich comics.
In 1985 and 1986, I attended Adirondack Community College in Queensbury, New York, majoring in broadcasting and doing a regular radio show on WGFR, the college's 10-watt radio powerhouse. I started working professionally in radio in 1986 and continue to do so to this day. I've been a disc jockey, news reporter, writer and producer, and currently work as a copywriter and production director; gratifyingly, it's actually the most fun I've had in two decades in radio.
In 1993, I married Lora, and in the ensuing years we've had two children, a daughter and a son. Both kids have inherited my love of comics, and love to draw as well.
In 1999 I began working at an all-news radio station in Albany, New York, and that was where it first occurred to me that comics might make for interesting news stories from time to time. Eventually, I was tapped by Silver Bullet Comic Books to write and edit reviews; in late August of 2000 I decided to take a chance on the creation of Comic Book Galaxy, and after a few weeks of gathering a dream-team of writers, the site debuted on September 1st, 2000.
The Galaxy's remit is to feature quality writing about comics with "Passion, Truth and Diversity," with the ever-present goal of "Pushing Comix Forward," and celebrating comics that achieve that mission.
Among my personal favourite comics creators are Alan Moore, James Kochalka, Paul Hornschemeier, Barry Windsor-Smith, Los Bros. Hernandez, Grant Morrison, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Chester Brown, Kevin Huizenga, Renee French, Dan Clowes, Bernard Krigstein, Chris Ware, Phoebe Gloeckner and David Mazzucchelli -- but such a list fails to explain the true breadth of my love for great comics, or my passion for, as Warren Ellis once noted, "What's new and what's next." The one thing that always keeps me immersed in comics as an artform is the fact that there's always something new and different just around the corner, always something amazing to discover. It's been my privilege to be able to share some of those discoveries with others since I began writing about comics.
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