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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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…
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 moreMy new book, MARVEL EXPLODES: FROM BULLPEN TO BIG BUSINESS, is a focus on the years that changed Marvel from a very small operation within a small magazine publishing company…
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…
read moreWhen I was a neophyte assistant editor and aspiring writer, there weren’t a wealth of books on writing comics. There were a couple of decades-old pamphlets by the already prodigiously…
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