As a student at Rutgers, FDU and Wroxton College in the U.K., I often competed for writing scholarships. The awards proved invaluable on numerous levels: 1) As an amateur/student, I was forced to bring my writing to the highest possible level, at that juncture in my development, without any assistance. 2) I learned to meet…
Don McGregor‘s elderly mother and other family medical emergencies have forced this fine man and fierce writer of the Black Panther, Killraven, and Detectives Inc., to put his personal collection of art (from stories he wrote) on the selling block. I will be representing Don McGregor’s personal collection of artwork–original pages from stories that he…
I regret to announce that my friend Gene Colan died at about 11 pm on June 23. Gene spent this last week in a quasi-coma state following a broken hip and complications from liver disease. He was 84. I am terribly saddened to lose Gene. He was a gentle and deeply spiritual man, a bright…
Bidding on these items ends May 8 at 10pm. To bid, email Cliffmeth@aol.comTwo cover recreations, one of THOR #126 (originally rendered by Jack Kirby), the other of SUB-MARINER #8 (by Gene’s pal John Buscema) — both reimagined here by the team of Gene Colan and Michael Netzer (12×18). Starting bid on each: $1200.00 Complete 6-page…
Gene Colan has left the hospital and is now in rehab. But he will not be going home. He and his family are deciding on an appropriate place where he can live the rest of his life comfortably with proper care. Despite this, Gene remains positive. He would like to draw again but is too…
I spent several hours with Gene this morning. He wasnât under the influence of any pain killers so he was lucid and jovial, but grew short of breath several timesâand every now and again heâd grimace in pain. The attending nurse finally had no choice but to put him back on the morphine and that…
While the scene at the NASDAQ at Times Square Thursday night was the polar opposite of the geek circus this past weekend at the Javits Center, the one thing they both had in common was Stan Lee at center stage. The Stan Lee Foundation, a new literacy program recently launched by Stan and his business…
(Editorial note: Even though Clifford writes for us on occasion, this is written in his role as Gene Colan’s friend and occasional assistant.) We are now accepting blind bids for the following Captain America #601 pages. Captain America #601 is up for the Eisner Award this year. This book is also significant because it’s Gene’s…
We are saddened to report the passing of Adrienne Colan, wife of Gene Colan, over this past weekend. Clifford Meth, pictured here at right with the Colans, adds this personal note for his friend. The news hasn’t been great in the Colan home these last few months. If you’ve followed it, and if you’ve read…
As sophists worldwide are aware, HaRav, HaGoan, HaWriter Adam-Troy Castro’s “Dear Magneto” essay is currently challenging more than 3000 years of Talmudic wisdom on the subject of homo-superior-phobia. Consequently, we stood in line, knee-deep in rain and runoff, for nearly sixteen hours along with hundreds of the revered Talmudist’s loyal chassidim, just waiting for a…
Glenn Hauman promised yesterday that I’d deliver a “fuller explanation of what’s been going on” vis-à-vis my piece “Welcome to Hollywood.” So in the interests of keeping this story alive (because you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the words, “You’ll never work in this town again”) I’ll try to squeeze in another few inches. Jason…
Editor’s note: This column, which was originally published at Comics Bulletin and which we pointed to on Friday, was taken down from their site yesterday. We’re a bit touchy when it comes to internet censorship and the hint of legal threats from movie people, so we asked Cliff what we could to do help. Clifford…
