Thinking today about a couple of futile assignments I had back in my earliest days at DC. One was to look up the copyright history (and renewals, if any) of…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…