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A very small book that you probably couldn’t get hold of, but should: TALES FROM A TINY ROOM by Wayne Ree. Delightful very, very short stories contemplating the peculiarities of…
read moreA very small book that you probably couldn’t get hold of, but should: TALES FROM A TINY ROOM by Wayne Ree. Delightful very, very short stories contemplating the peculiarities of…
read moreWell, WILL EISNER: CHAMPION OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL is, anyway. Part of the fun of doing a historical book is trying to make the pieces of the story fit. Take…
read moreIn case it’s not obvious from the work, I’m greatly enjoying doing the new DOCTOR FATE series. The collaboration with Sonny Liew is a special joy, from his innovative covers…
read moreRaina Telgemeier, Todd McFarlane, Denis Kitchen and me in conversation on Will Eisner : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIO7VMcsngs&feature=youtu.be
read moreOne of my first ‘business’ tasks at DC was helping to create the annual production schedule for 1974 or 1975, after proofreader Gerta Gattel retired. Gerta was a meticulous woman,…
read moreSmiling at the sight of a couple of issues of ETCETERA & THE COMIC READER hanging on the wall of the NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. They’ve mounted an exhibit entitled…
read moreUnsurprisingly, one of the great pleasures of my life. When I went back to my elementary school four decades later, one of the two places I could find unaided was…
read moreI always enjoy seeing old friends at cons, but Saturday evening had a nice twofer: the reception for Michael Uslan’s new T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS project gave me a good smile for…
read morePeople always ask writers where they get their ideas. It’s mostly an indirect process, and often we don’t really know where we get our ideas. But once in a while…
read moreA lavishly illustrated coffee table book traces (and contextualizes) Eisner’s career as groundbreaking cartoonist, businessman, educator, graphic novelist, and ultimately, evangelist and champion of the comics form as art and…
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