This topic is the last in a series (linked below) and likely my last post of the year. It has taken me a week to post the series, but I've been thinking about it for much longer than that. What was holding me back was the thought of posting my ration
The decade of the 1970s began a period of transition. Total annual sales figures can no longer be used to help determine when an "Age" might begin or end. Once sales fell to around 3 million in 1970, that's where they stayed for the entire decade. I'
Eleven years ago, I wrote how my wife was a woman of steel in dealing with the death of her father. As painful as it is, that’s the way of the world. A child burying a parent is the natural order of things.
Right now I am reading the mammoth collection of Jason Lutes's Berlin. I tried to do some research, and from what I have found, this seems to be the first time the conclusion has ever been seen. I must admit that my "investigation" into this was kind
Next year, I'll be back to writing my usual Thanksgiving and Christmas entries, I promise. But this time around, I'm leaving it to someone who did a far, far better job of it than I ever could---the incomparable Milt Caniff.
THE BATMAN FAMILY: In anticipation of the upcoming release of the Silver Age Batman Omnibus, I gathered together from various sources (Batman in the Fifties, Batman: the Annuals v2, Ba
First, full disclosure: I was an avid fan of these dolls when I was a little boy. Second, these were dolls, not the tiny bits of plastic the Gen-Xers would come to call "action figures" a decade later. My across-the-street neighbor (Scotty) had one
You haven't heard much from me lately about my book contract, and there's a reason for that.
Originally, I sent my master's thesis to a publisher, about how journalists were presented in comics, wanting to expand it into a book. They agreed, and were