We miss him every day here at ComicMix. Comics Alliance has a great retrospective of the man at
http://comicsalliance.com/tribute-julius-schwartz/.
Julius “Julie” Schwartz was born on this day in 1915. Schwartz was an agent and con organizer, and as an editor at DC he was a midwife of comics’ Silver Age.
Meet Anthony Tollin. I did, more than 30 years ago, at DC Comics. Anthony was tall, friendly, didn’t look like a New Yorker, and wasn’t. He came to Manhattan from Minneapolis in 1973, worked a couple of jobs, and then landed at DC, where he stayed for 20 years, proofreading, color-coordinating, helping Jack Adler manage…
There’s a very small note in the New York Times (which has had a veritable shload of comics news lately) about DC imprint Vertigo, which is apparently adding a new imprint, or focus, or something. Vertigo will be doing some crime comics, though no projects are announced. Earlier this year Vertigo announced a new impetus…
Warning Spoilers! It’s more than a review this week because we just have so much to say about Wonder Woman. Not only is it Tweeks Approved, but we had to reorder our Chrises.
Six more windows to close… at this rate, I’ll be down to only two hundred open windows by the end of the year. Sigh… Batman’s interspecies film career. (Oh, come on– we already have bats and robins together, this isn’t that much worse, right?) Email from Doctor Doom. No, really: I do not speak melodramaticaly….
http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2014/6/24/meanwhile-at-hydra-hq.html “Minion! Did you take care of Captain America’s shield?” Yes, commander! After today, that meddlesome schoolboy won’t even recognize his shield.” “Exxxxcellent. Out of curiosity, what did you do?” “Sir?” “To Rogers’ shield. How did you sabotage it? Acid? Explosives? Radioactive vermin? What?” “Oh. Um, I’m not sure ‘sabotage’ is the right word, sir.”…
As reported this morning in USA Today, DC Comics is hosting a contest tied to the arrival of J. Michael Straczynski as the Man of Steel’s new writer. As Superman walks from coast to coast in his quest to understand America, readers can lobby for the hero to pay their hometown a visit. This is…
