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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...
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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,...
Like everyone, I blame social media. I don’t like to bring politics to my Facebook wall, but seems like everything is politics, nowadays, so,...
So, this year is the 35th anniversary of the publication of AMERICAN FLAGG!, the comic book that demonstrated that I had potentially more to...
Do me a favor. It’s a big favor, so I understand that most of you won’t. But if you’ll indulge me: Go make something....
Guest post by John Donaldson This year’s San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone. You may have noticed that with Marvel scaling back its...
The great author William Faulkner once stated, “In writing you must kill your darlings.” In Pop Culture, you should do the same. I have...
It’s happened every season, but this year the criticism against how women are portrayed on Game of Thrones has ratcheted up. While much of...
I’m not a Deadpool guy. Not that I hate the character. I guess he’s fun enough when he’s used in moderation or when someone...
Better Call Saul was certainly one of the most anticipated shows this year — unlike most other new shows it premiered with huge numbers....
We have to say, we’re incredible excited about Dawn of Justice when it’s released in almost exactly a year’s time. The addition of Jesse...
Op/Ed by Benn Robbins This was originally written on Tuesday March 17th 2015 after I watched the Internet explode for a bit. I wrote...