A Christmas Thought
So my very first editor credit was on a reprint collection of CHRISTMAS WITH THE SUPER HEROES. It was very exciting as I was only 18 when it came out.…
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So my very first editor credit was on a reprint collection of CHRISTMAS WITH THE SUPER HEROES. It was very exciting as I was only 18 when it came out.…
read moreIt’s a term we used for what have also been called commercial projects and propaganda. There’s a great history of benevolent ones, including the story of Martin Luther King Jr…
read moreCorrecting a transcription error in the newest edition of the JOURNAL OF COMICS & CULTURE reminded me to say a few words about the very nice man who headed DC’s…
read moreDriving recently through the wilds of Connecticut saw the sign for Bridgeport, and flashed on 40 Logan Street, an address that in a certain era was a daily part of…
read moreToday the announcement was made that Boom Studios! has agreed to a sale to Penguin Random House, a deal I played a small part in as a member of Boom!’s…
read moreI realized some years ago that my preference for group comics as a young reader had different causes than my pleasure in writing them in my adult years. As writer,…
read moreSo it’s early 1973, I’m 16, a high school senior, and lucky enough to have landed the assignment to do DC’s house pages–the equivalent of the Marvel Bullpen pages. They…
read moreThere are quite a number of projects from early in my writing career that I regard as failures: either assignments that I took on and dropped midway for one reason…
read moreThis week marked 50 years since I became a comics professional, getting the modest assignment to write Joe Orlando’s letter columns at DC. Looking back over a long and complex…
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