
Custom Comics
It’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 moreArthur & accounting
Correcting 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 moreA Time Machine moment
Driving 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 moreIn the news
Today 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…
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I 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 moreOn The Spot
So 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 moreRecalling A Failure
There 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 morePondering 50 Years
This 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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