If a story has a moral that says, basically, “stories like this one are not as important or good as other kinds of stories, which are more special,” is that enough to make you throw it across the room in disgust? In this case, it didn’t…mostly because it was a library book, and I don’t…
This week is a mish-mash featuring my reactions and thoughts to some of my fellow ComicMix columnists and two reader’s thoughts on my column from last week. In response to my column last week, which I wrote while watching the New York Giants/Green Bay Packers wild card playoff game, Mark Belktron wrote: Johnny O (the…
So today (Sunday, which is yesterday), Editor Mike sent me a link to a column on The Jewish Daily Forward’s website which asks the question “Do Marvel Movies Have An Anti-Semitic Problem?” – which also happens to be the dumbest article I’ve ever read on their site. Granted, The Forward – which was born way…
Best-selling author Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on Thursday, March 12, and the final tweets from his Twitter account were a fitting and poignant way to announce his passing. Even though I knew it was coming, given Terry’s long struggle with Alzheimer’s and attendant health issues, it broke my heart a little bit more to…
I discovered the All Souls trilogy by historian and fiction writer Deborah Harkness – I’m currently reading the final book, The Book Of Life (the first being A Discovery Of Witches and the second titled Shadow Of Night) and loving it, unable to stop, eager to discover how it all ends and yet not at…
“Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country” Horace Greely Editor, New York Tribune July 13, 1865 Editorial The New York Tribune, established in 1841, was…
Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon have numerous things in common. Theyâre both fantastic writers; theyâve both written for (and about) comics; theyâve both won Hugos, Nebulas, and a slew of other impressive awards; theyâve both penned Sherlockian-style tales; theyâve both had novels adapted for the big screen; and they both have great hair.* Another thing…
The problem with being a trendsetter is that if you’re successful, you get imitated time and time again. Such was the fate that befell Edgar Rice Burroughs’ pulp heroes Tarzan and John Carter. The thriller-seeking readers of pulp magazines were enthralled by ERB’s pulse-pounding, straight-forward prose, which was strong in ideas and weak in word…
Walt Disney Pictures 2012 Directed by Andrew Stanton Produced by Jim Morris and Colin Wilson Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon Based on “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs It was while waiting in the theater lobby for my wife after we had just seen JOHN CARTER that I heard…
This week’s tempest in a book-pot was sparked yesterday by the fine writer Michael Chabon, but it could easily have been any one of a thousand other authors. In an interview with the Washington Post, occasioned by the upcoming flood of his back catalog into electronic formats, Chabon complained about his royalty rates: When it’s…
NEWS RELEASE Contact: Ed Catto O: 917.595.4107 Ed.catto@bonfireagency.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New PBS Documentary to Preview at New York Comic Con “A Never-Ending Battle” Celebrates Comics’ Superheroes and their Creators New York, NY (October 3, 2011) “A Never-Ending Battle,” the first episode of a new film from the creative team responsible for the award-winning PBS…
Maps and Legends By Michael Chabon McSweeney’s Books, May 2008, $24.00 Michael Chabon has had the good luck to be writing in an era when it’s possible to both be a respected, bestselling literary writer and have a public, abiding love for some of the more disreputable genres. His best-known novel, The Amazing Adventures of…
