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Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955, Paul Kupperberg got his start in comic fandom. He and Paul Levitz produced the comics fanzine The Comic Reader from 1971 to 1973, and Etcetera from 1972 to 1973. In 1975 Kupperberg sold several short horror stories to Charlton Comics, and then a few months later sold a World of Krypton story to DC for their Superman Family comic. He has written for many other DC comics since then, including Superman, Doom Patrol, Green Lantern, Justice League of America. He created the series Arion: Lord of Atlantis, Checkmate, and Takion.

Kupperberg has also written a variety of books, ranging from The Atlas to the DC Universe to the Spider-Man novel Crime Campaign to an array of young adult nonfiction books like Spy Satellites and The Tragedy of the Titanic. He served as assistant editor at Video Action Magazine from 1981-82, and from 1991-2006 he was a staff editor for DC Comics. In early 2006 he left DC to become Senior Editor at Weekly World News—he had been writing for them since the year before. Unfortunately, WWN ceased publication in August 2007. At the start of the following year Kupperberg was tapped as Senior Editor for World Wrestling Entertainment’s new WWE Kids magazine, but the magazine was restructured a few months later. He is currently enjoying the life of a freelance prose and comic book writer and editor.

One of my favorite superhero buddy teams is coming back — well, sort of. The recently resurrected Valiant Entertainment  has been busy publishing hardcover collected editions of their Shooter-era original titles (in other words, not the Gold Key licensed stuff like Doctor Solar and Turok), each with an original story.

Third up is Archer and Armstrong, created by Jim Shooter and Don Perlin with input from Valiant stalwarts such as Bob Layton and Barry Windsor-Smith. The first volume reprints issues #0 through #6 and includes an original origin story by Jim and artists Sal Velluto and Bob Almond – all under a new cover by Michael Golden.

Archer and Armstrong Volume One is expected to ship September 24, 2008.

This weekend, comic fans are trying to decide of the promise of a clean slate are true and if the stigma of that last movie can be wiped from their memory so they can enjoy The Incredible Hulk on the big screen. Actor Tim Roth, the film’s resident heavy, gives us his take why a ticket is a good investment and we also get a little “wish” from Marvel Studios on what might be a way cool comic to next get the Hollywood treatment, plus:

• Ultimate Origins #1 gone for good
• Vincent Price creeps into comics
• A new DC movie and not from Warner Brothers

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Over at Journalista, Dirk Deppey flexed his scanning muscles yesterday and posted a nice set of images from one of the illustrated books on his shelf. The book is Frank Wing’s Fotygraft Album, published in 1915, and features the following:

The gimmick’s simple: a young child is showing the family photo album to a friend of his mother’s, with drawings made to resemble photography on the right-hand side of each page, and text of the child describing the subject on the left.

I won’t inflict any of Frank Wing writing on you, of course; it’s corny in that faux Waltons-family kind of way, positively dripping with down-home sentimentality. Wing’s art, on the other hand, is quite nice.

And indeed it is.

I’ve posted a larger version of this image after the jump, but many more can be found over at Journalista. (more…)

Earlier this month, our friends at Famous Monsters of Filmland posted a nice chat with writer Chuck Dixon about his work on the adaptation of Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein: Prodigal Son. The six-issue series features a story adapted by Dixon with art by Brett Booth, and is published by the Dabel Bros.

Here, Dixon describes the process of adapting the work of the noted horror author:

FM: How does one adapt a novel to a comic book?

Chuck: In this case it was easy! Dean breaks this stuff down like a comic script. Fast paced and lots of juicy visuals.

The process is like this: I read the novel through and then go back and re-read with post-it notes and a highlighter pen in hand. I highlight significant dialogue and mark page breaks and put in post-its for the issue breaks. Like I said, it was real easy this time. Usually I have to hunt for strong visuals as most novels tend to be internal. But this book gave me option paralysis with all the cool and gruesome stuff.

The first issue of Frankenstein: Prodigal Son is already on shelves. For the full interview, head over to Famous Monsters of Filmland.