Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
I'm attending a history conference this weekend, which makes this weekly Robin mercifully short. All I offer is a link to Ethan Persoff's scans of an ersatz, one-color Batman and Robin comic from Vietnam in the 1960s.
The popularity of the television show and comic books imported by American servicemen apparently spurred some local comics creators to make their own adventure. And in Vietnam, Robin got to be invisible!
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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