A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… That line has nothing to do with this column. I just love starting a piece with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” I mean how cool is that? A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… I started to…
I’m not kidding. I’ll say it again. I’m not Michael Davis. Once more, I’m Not Michael Davis and I’m getting pretty tired of people thinking I am. Allow me to explain… Some years back I received a call from news outlets asking for my response to Tom Cruise’s winning of a lawsuit. For those of…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Comics made the mainstream news only with some event regular folk could understand and think was worth going into a comic book store for the first time…ever. Superman is dead. Superman gets married. Which is the same thing as being dead. Spider-Man gets married. Spider-Man…
Please read last week’s article before this final installment. Maybe, just maybe Grell wouldn’t ask me. I mean he had yet to speak one single word to me in the two plus hours I was in his room. No such luck. After Grell asked everyone in the room he turned to me. “What did you…
Reading Michael Davis’s last two columns brings to mind a story; a story about glasses. I can’t tell you the exact year, but it was around 1990. We were in Chicago (go figure) at the late, lamented Chicago Comicon, since subsumed by Wizard World. By “we” I am referring to Messrs Davis, Cowan, Ostrander, Grell,…
Please take a look at last week’s installment before continuing on… As I said, I’ve had a very interesting career in comics. Denys Cowan and I were biding time until the premier of Mike Grell’s Jon Sable series on television. I’d been invited to watch it in Mike Grell’s hotel room and I invited Denys….
Just some rambling… DC’s New 52 made the New York Times again. The title of the article is “So Far, Sales For New DC Comics Are Super,” by George Gene Gustines and Adam W. Kepler was published on Saturday, October 1, 2011 issue, and was featured on the front page of the Arts Section. According…
I’ve had a very interesting career in comics. I’ve done some pretty interesting things in my career. Co-founded Milestone Media, created The Action Files, the only line of comics taught as a curriculum in the school system and created another universe, The Guardian Line, for African-American churches and Christian book stores. When DC comics launched…
When asked as a kid what superhero I wanted to be my answer was Batman. I loved Batman. I mean, I really loved Batman. One Halloween my mother brought me a Batman costume and I also wore it the day after Halloween when I went outside to play. I was laughed out of the park…
Editor’s Note: This originally appeared at www.michaeldavisworld.com on January 28, 2011. It is being reprinted here without permission. It’s been reformatted to meet ComicMix’s high editorial standards. A long time ago in a galaxy, blah, blah, blah… …Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz and I shared a studio next to some creators who are all legends now….
For over a decade I’ve been hosting The Black Panel at various venues around the country. The panel has its roots in the Milestone Media panels I once hosted at different comic book conventions in the nineties. I created The Black Panel as a forum to discuss African American pop culture from the inside with…
This past Tuesday, August 30 to be exact, the New York Times ran an article by Dave Itzkoff about the “new” DC reboot. It was called “Heroes Take Flight, Again.” It’s an interesting article. And its tone is that of a penultimate eulogy. To quote Itzkoff, “Within the DC universe, this new status quo is…
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