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Brooklyn Blood Spills To Applause
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Comics Veteran Paul Levitz on ‘Brooklyn Blood’ and His Eisner Hall of Fame Nomination by Graeme McMillan “I like to feel that I played a part in making comics a better field for creative people,” says the writer, editor and executive. Paul Levitz is having quite the year. The veteran comic book […]
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Small World
It’s hard to explain to folks who’ve come into comics in the era of conventions the size of small cities, but comics was a very, very small world fifty years ago. American comics had maybe a couple of hundred active creative people involved, and fandom was a small (but fiercely interconnected) world. The 1971 NY […]
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A Conversation With Karen
I was privileged to have my good friend and long time colleague Karen Berger at the Columbia class I co-teach with Jeremy Dauber. Happy to share with you a transcript of that conversation. PL: Karen comes into the story (of comics) at the beginning of the 1980s at your age, basically, fresh out of college. […]
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Jenette Kahn INTERVIEW
When Taschen decided not to do ahead with the last two volumes of the expansion of the ’75 YEARS OF DC COMICS’ book, I had already completed the interviews to go in front of the books. They’ve been generous and are allowing me to post them here. First up, a conversation with the woman who […]
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Welcome
Welcome. Crawling slowly into the digital age. Looking for something that can replace the contact and conversation that I had with my fanzines (back in the dinosaur age of comics), or the almost 20 years of writing lettercols. I know this is a very different platform, but I’m hoping it can satisfy some of the […]
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Paradigm?
There’s been a bit of conversation lately about something Denny O’Neil kindly labeled “the Levitz paradigm” – a plotting tool I used in the Legion’s heyday to keep track of the many fluid plots and subplots. The physical ‘device’ is pretty simple, and the theory is one that was rapidly evolving in super hero comics […]
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The Strip I Didn’t Dare Frame
The background of this post is a daily SUPERMAN that I wrote around 1980, during my two year run on the newspaper strip. It’s kind of a charming moment, and in its own way reflects the paranoia that every writer has about every editor (or publisher) sometimes…are they doing this because they hate me? Perry’s […]
WILL EISNER: CHAMPION OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
A lavishly illustrated coffee table book traces (and contextualizes) Eisner’s career as groundbreaking cartoonist, businessman, educator, graphic novelist, and ultimately, evangelist and champion of the comics form as art and literature. Intro by Brad Meltzer, text by Paul Levitz. READ MORE
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