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Billy the cross-dresser?
When you hear Billy Tucci’s, name you think of his super-smash comic book Shi. When I hear Billy’s name, I smile and ask, “What’s that freak up to now?” I say this lovingly, because Billy is one of my closest friends (who doesn’t owe me money). He still amazes me with the barrage of insane ideas he comes up with. The funny thing is that out of all those ideas comes one or two that can actually work! His brain is constantly working on his next scheme, whether it be a convention on the aircraft carrier Intrepid in New York Harbor or starting a nature park for American buffalo. The thing…
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Shi’s Billy Tucci’s Crusade for knowledge
By Billy Tucci – North Babylon, Long Island, was a great place to grow up. I spent the summers of my boyhood playing with my friends, making movies with my brothers, and romping through playgrounds and backyard barbecues. A few years later I was bombing down Deer Park Avenue with my 1966 Mustang Fastback piled with maniacs looking for girls and mischief. I played hockey in the winter, baseball in the summer, and basketball any time of the year. The only thing missing was fantasy and adventure in the worlds of the imagination. That I found in books. Sidney Lanier’s The Boy’s King Arthur, with incredible illustrations by N.C. Wyeth,…