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Comic Strips, the Pulps, Comic Books, and Harry Donenfeld by Francis DiMenno
Editor's note: This is a guest post by Francis DiMenno. Francis DiMenno is a Librarian, Archivist, and long-time comic book aficionado; his Master's thesis on EC Comics can be found here. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/2060/ Thank you Francis! The origin...
Pulps and Pensacon
I came “home” to the Gulf Coast for a few months this winter and for the first time my two lives intersected. Thanks to Danny Fingeroth I attended Wizard World Comic Con in New Orleans and this past weekend I presented at Pensacon in Pensacola thanks to Mike...
New Orleans Comic Con 2014
Comics, New Orleans and longtime friends—Is there anything better than this? I spent the past weekend in New Orleans staying with my childhood boyfriend and his superlative wife while attending Wizard World ComicCon New Orleans. CBF and I have been friends for a very...
SDCC 2013: Super Women and Men
Truth be told I was more than a little worried about taking on Wonder Woman. By that I mean writing about her with any semblance of knowledge, not to mention writing about Trina Robbins, Ramona Fradon and Mary Fleener, three amazing women comics...
Oh Superman
Everyone in the know and not so much has blogged and posted and ranted and raved about Man of Steel. Within the comics’ community and serious fans, it has reached the level of the battle between General Zod and Superman in the last part of the film. I had...
The Writing Life
The Major was a prolific creative writer, visionary, editor and publisher. In the process of putting together his story I am continually amazed at the scope and amount of work he produced in different genres over the course of his life. Everything from popular...
