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So, early last month I was invited to be a guest at the SDCC in 2019. I was more than a little surprised, since...
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So, early last month I was invited to be a guest at the SDCC in 2019. I was more than a little surprised, since...
Forgive an old man for a slipping memory. Here’s an addendum, and not necessarily the last such, to the lists that preceded it… ...
This time I’m covering other genres, the outliers, and the oops, I slipped on this one or that one. I’m sure there are authors...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Remember when you watched a science fiction movie or read a story or saw a comic that was holding up a mirror to our...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
Trick or Treat… …Or, further vacation ruminations, this time as I pissed away a day aboard ship—staring at the azure skies between Corfu and...
Although I am delighted to be an October baby, that one defining thing about the month, namely Hallowe’en, has never been a thing for...
Here’s another thing; you kids are ruining everything. I have a lot of stuff going on, so I just got caught up with that...
It’s October…time for unfortunate surprises, political or otherwise, Rocktober, Inktober, Marvelous Moondances, and for me, a birthday, or more realistically, the acknowledgment of being...
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” – Pablo Picasso. “Keep on Truckin’!” – Robert Crumb. Years...
Hey, everybody! You may know me as that guy you know. Others may know me as the award-winning writer of Astronauts in Trouble and...
It should come as no surprise to anyone but a complete idiot that I completely reject everything that the so called Comicsgate cabal represents...
You guys know Burning Man just finished up? Maybe this is a bigger deal to me than it is to you, living in San...
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...
More specifically, to the ones who can’t understand that what they are doing is only hurting themselves, and are open to learning another way...
HOWARD CHAYKIN is a longtime veteran of the comic book business, serving as an artist and writer for nearly every publisher of comics in...
What we recognize as modern comic book fandom had its real start in the very early 1950s, in the form of what was called...
I dunno if you guys know this, but I’ve been a Star Trek fan for pretty much my whole life. If anything, Captain Kirk,...
Thoughts and observations from August 2017. With all the talk about our supposedly long held American aversion to Nazism and Fascism, it might be...
I was watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER the other night, because my wife and kid were visiting her grandmother and I was holding down...
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,...
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,...