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…
read moreIt’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…
read moreHere’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…
read moreSo 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…
read moreI’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…
read moreSo 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…
read moreOn 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…
read moreDenny’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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