25 February 2020

Art for “The Axman’s Arm”

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At Skookworks, David Lee Ingersoll has just shared his illustrations from the 2006 issue of Oziana magazine, which I edited and produced...
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11 February 2020

Helping Stupendo Take Off

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This picture shows Stupendo and Secret Girl, a superhero team I dreamed up a couple of years ago in a burst of short comics scripts for ki...
21 January 2020

The First Whiff of Gunsmoke

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In the late 1940s the head of CBS, William Paley, asked his staff to develop a radio drama based on the concept of “Philip Marlowe in the ea...
27 December 2019

The Oxford and Cambridge Schools of British Fantasy

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From Slate’s interview with Maria Sachiko Cecire, professor at Bard and author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature...
24 December 2019

Life Lessons from the MGM Movie

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Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow is a short but not insubstantial riff on the MGM Wizard of Oz . The author, Peter Guzz...
18 December 2019

See What See You Yesterday Did There

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Stories of time travel with branching possibilities emphasize the results of characters’ choices even more than other types of stories. ...
27 November 2019

The Busytown Neighborhood in New-York

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Every December the New-York Historical Society lays out a big model train set to visit, and this year’s design celebrates the centenary of...
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 ...
15 November 2019

Breakdown

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Let’s imagine that Donald Trump paid millions of dollars—assuming he actually has that much money to spend—to officials of a foreign gover...
07 November 2019

The Real Legacy of He Walked by Night

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He Walked by Night didn’t influence The Third Man , but it definitely did influence American popular entertainment. To start with, it app...