Remembering An Old Friend 150 150 Paul Levitz

Remembering An Old Friend

It’s July 4th weekend, a time when many fans of my generation remember the amazing time we had at the New York Comicons of the 1970s.  Everyone’s memories of great…

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Readings & Writings 150 150 Paul Levitz

Readings & Writings

Here’s an author and body of work that isn’t usually high on the list for comics folks, but that I recommended several times to writers taking on Superman.  Zenna Henderson…

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Ages 150 150 Paul Levitz

Ages

So the scheme of sorting comics history into Ages was mostly influenced by those of us who were disproportionately fans of the super hero material.  That classification scheme gave us…

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Teaching & Learning 150 150 Paul Levitz

Teaching & Learning

I’ve been teaching on an undergrad and graduate level at a number of colleges for the last dozen years or so, usually 3-4 classes per term.  I don’t teach required…

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Writing With Words 960 300 Paul Levitz

Writing With Words

So I did a new trick that’s being published in June 2022: writing prose fiction.  It’s kind of funny that I never turned my hand to that in decades of…

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Generation Wonder 1000 1521 Paul Levitz

Generation Wonder

The Visitor 1249 1920 Paul Levitz

The Visitor

DOCTOR FATE VOL. 3: Fateful Threads 1641 2560 Paul Levitz

DOCTOR FATE VOL. 3: Fateful Threads

Curating collections 150 150 Paul Levitz

Curating collections

On editing reprint collections Another of my many dubious distinctions in comics is probably having the edited reprint collections over the longest stretch of time, 46 years now.  (Okay, I didn’t…

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Denny O’Neil 150 150 Paul Levitz

Denny O’Neil

Denny’s gone, brought social conscience to comics. He was a journalist at heart, and knew his obit would have Batman in the lede, but I think he’d have been prouder…

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