Showing posts with label comics history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics history. Show all posts
19 September 2025

“The urchin who treads on the garden hose”

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Film narrative began with the figure of a mischievous child. The very first movies were “actualités” documenting how people, animals, or m...
12 January 2022

We’re #2!

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Fawcett’s original Captain Marvel debuted in Whiz Comics , #2. There was no issue #1. The Human Torch’s kid sidekick, Toro, debuted in Hum...
06 October 2020

Making Space for Thomas Nast

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Early this year, folks at the Massachusetts Historical Society contacted me and colleagues in the Boston Comics Roundtable and invited us ...
16 May 2020

New Fun with Jack and Bill

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In 1935, National Publications issued its first magazine collection of original comics. New Fun was thus the first comic book from the co...
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24 November 2019

Tom Lyle and the Robin Miniseries

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In 1986 Tom Lyle, an aspiring comic-book artist in his thirties, went to a comics convention in Philadelphia. There he met Chuck Dixon, a ...
25 November 2018

“I think he should have a kid buddy”

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The Library of Congress has a new exhibit featuring a recent donation, Steve Geppi’s vast collection of American comics and pop culture. ...
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15 July 2017

Work with Children and Animals

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This call for papers came up on the H-Childhood email list: Child-Animal Relationships in Comics: Historical and Transcultural Perspecti...
10 December 2015

An Unknown Comics Adventure in Oz

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Last week as The Wiz was about to air on television, Mark Evanier unspooled his story about being hired to script an adaptation of the 1...
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15 November 2015

“A depth that other superhero comics didn’t have”

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A few months back, as McFarland sent out the first copies of Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder , editor Kristen L. Geaman asked all of us contributor...
08 November 2015

“Some outstanding work” in Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder

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Here are nice quotes from reviews of Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder , edited by Kristen L. Geaman and published this year by McFarland. John DeN...
01 November 2015

A Robin Reader

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Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder is a collection of serious essays about the sensational character find of 1940, published on the occasion of his 7...
19 November 2014

A Paradox of Geek Fandom

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Last week I sat in on a discussion with Paul Levitz, former President at DC Comics, at MIT’s Media Lab. (The door to the building said I h...
16 November 2014

DC to Feed Nostalgia for Six to Twelve Years Ago

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DC Comics executive Dan DiDio told USA Today that the company’s “Convergence” crossover event for next spring will return to older versio...
09 November 2014

“No other comic-book character has lasted as long”

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In articles derived from her new book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman , Jill Lepore has been talking up that comic-book heroine’s plac...
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05 November 2014

Before Frank Quitely Was Quite Quitely

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Frank Quitely is one of the most respected artists working in superhero comics today, known for his distinctive drawing style, dynamic com...
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02 November 2014

“That history will always be in the background”?

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In an interview with Comic Book Resources , Grayson co-scripter Tom King spoke of his particular fondness for the character of Dick Grays...
19 October 2014

Loeb’s Untraveled Road

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This month John Siuntres’s Word Balloon podcast reran excerpts from some past years’ interviews with Batman story creators. Starting abou...
28 September 2014

Beyond Batman Beyond

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It’s interesting to watch what DC Comics has done with its Batman Beyond storyline this year, reflecting changes in its target audience. ...
24 September 2014

Carol Tilley on “When Comics Almost Died”

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On Monday night I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Carol Tilley of the University of Illinois on Dr. Fredric Wertham’s crusade a...
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24 August 2014

Roy Harper, the Anti-Dick Grayson

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Just as DC Comics had to separate Green Arrow from Batman, its storytellers had to figure out a way to make Green Arrow’s young sidekick Spe...
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