Seven random thoughts on a post-Valentine’s Day afternoon. I’ve started to measure time in “DC Comics Reboots.” Usually about four years, give or take. In other words, if Abe Lincoln used that designation his most famous speech with have started “21 DC Comics Reboots ago…” Yes, I know DC insists it’s not a reboot, despite…
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel By Paul Levitz Abrams ComicArts, 224 pages, $40 It took me a while to figure out that Will Eisner has been a part of my comic reading life since I was perhaps seven or eight. Mom found Jules FiefferÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs The Great Comic Book Heroes at our local library…
Yesterday I had the privilege of joining fellow ComicMixers Martha Thomases and Adriane Nash and a standing-room-only crowd at Columbia University to hear Congressman John R. Lewis talk about graphic novels. Make no mistake about it: Congressman Lewis is a genuine hero. I realize that’s a word we toss around rather lightly these days, but believe…
Iâve learned a very important lesson this past week: Never ever start training for a new day job the day after a four-day convention. All it does is turn your completely exhausted brain to mush. However, with said new position I will have a very small amount of extra cash available to do something I…
Labor Day. It sounds like a day when we all should be out there laboring our asses off – or, if you’re an expectant mom, the day you give birth. (Now that’s labor!) Instead, it’s a national holiday on which we all un-labor. The United States Department of Labor defines the holiday as “Labor Day,…
For the past several weeks my friend and comrade Paul Levitz has taken to the so-called social media to promote his brand-new comic book, Doctor Fate. Of course, this is his right and more power to him. But I don’t recall Paul doing so much promotion for his work during a writing career that goes…
Sonny Liew, artist on the upcoming Dr. Fate series written by Paul Levitz for DC Comics, has published a graphic novel overseas that’s gotten a bit of political attention in his home country of Singapore… A hot-off-the-press graphic novel seems to be in hot water, with the National Arts Council (NAC) revoking its $8,000 publication…
Nope. This one isn’t what you might think. To paraphrase Li’l Willie Shakespeare, “Not that I loved the New 52 less, but that I loved DC more.” The New 52 is not dead. Heck, it’s not even coughing up blood. Sure, a great many of the titles they started out with aren’t around any more,…
I was having lunch with www.getthepointradio.com’s Mike Raub yesterday and we were deep in discussion about our favorite topic, what the hell is wrong with the planet and why we are the only ones smart enough to realize it. Before long we were ranting about the lameness of most mainstream comics and the various attempts…
Dear Paul, Paul, Paul, PaulPaulPaul, Paul. I hope this letters finds you well. You and I have had our differences over the years but I still remember when I used to hang out in your office and just talk to you and all the swag you bestowed upon me. Clearly our styles have clashed and…
Androids may or may not dream of electric sheep. Lately, however, I dream of Paul Levitz. No, not like that. Get your mind out of the gutter. Yeesh. Having said that, it’s still a disturbing experience. I’ve known Paul since the late 1970s. He was my boss’s boss for the ten years I worked at…
Want to know what was going on in Paul Levitz’s office on Wednesday? Bob Greenberger was there: I had no inkling that going to DC Comics for meetings today would prove a stroke of lucky timing. While meeting with Chris Cerasi on a project we’ll talk about in a day or two, I received a…
