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Psychologists say the pursuit is often more emotionally rewarding than the achieved goal. I’m not sure when that’s true and when it’s not, there’s some truth in it. I spent…
read morePsychologists say the pursuit is often more emotionally rewarding than the achieved goal. I’m not sure when that’s true and when it’s not, there’s some truth in it. I spent…
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…
read moreIn the early ‘70s, Superman was still the heart of DC’s publishing program, but his power was growing weaker every year. His decline was steeper than the general, and that…
read moreI came to Marvel relatively late: my comics reading began with the Weisinger-edited Superman titles in the early sixties, and moved from there to the broader DC line slowly. I…
read moreI’ve probably done dozens of interviews and convention panels over the years, maybe a hundred? Some questions come up over and over, and at this point trigger almost prerecorded answers. Some, of…
read moreTex Blaisdell was a long time comics pro, both skilled and well liked, but by the early 1970s, not in top form. He’d done work on many newspaper comic strips,…
read moreI don’t think anyone likely to be reading this website isn’t going to check out the new SANDMAN series when it drops on Netflix this Friday, and based on what…
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