Recalling 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 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…
read moreFor the ancient history buffs, the Phantom Stranger launched as a title of his own in 1952, at a time when it was pretty rare for DC to debut a…
read moreOne thing that worries me about the increasing trend of virtual offices is the learning process. In some fields, very specifically comics but I’m sure others as well, much of the…
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