Howard Chaykin - Forces of Geek

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FUCK EVERYBODY

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” – Pablo Picasso. “Keep on Truckin’!” – Robert Crumb. Years...

Howard ChaykinSeptember 26, 2018

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PICK YOUR BATTLES AND DO IT WISELY

It should come as no surprise to anyone but a complete idiot that I completely reject everything that the so called Comicsgate cabal represents...

Howard ChaykinSeptember 19, 2018

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FEELINGS AREN’T FACTS

Just to be clear… There’s an awful lot of un-American shitting on each other’s parades lately. Hypermasculine man-boys on the energized right are affronted...

Howard ChaykinSeptember 12, 2018

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IF I’M SUCH A BIG DEAL, WHY DON’T THEY LOVE ME MORE?

HOWARD CHAYKIN is a longtime veteran of the comic book business, serving as an artist and writer for nearly every publisher of comics in...

Howard ChaykinSeptember 5, 2018

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THE ATROPHIED TASTES OF THE TWELVE-YEAR OLD FANBOY

What we recognize as modern comic book fandom had its real start in the very early 1950s, in the form of what was called...

Howard ChaykinAugust 29, 2018

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FUCK AMERICAN NAZIS PLEASE

Thoughts and observations from August 2017. With all the talk about our supposedly long held American aversion to Nazism and Fascism, it might be...

Howard ChaykinAugust 22, 2018

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SMOKE AND BULLSHIT

It’s been several decades since the late Brandon Tartikoff first identified comic books as the next big thing in dramatic narrative. He was right,...

Howard ChaykinAugust 15, 2018

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COMIC BOOK MAN

That’s me—I’m a comic book man. And to be clear, not one of those guys on the similarly entitled television show – about which,...

Howard ChaykinAugust 8, 2018

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WEIMAR AMERICA

So, this year is the 35th anniversary of the publication of AMERICAN FLAGG!, the comic book that demonstrated that I had potentially more to...

Howard ChaykinAugust 1, 2018