Dec 4, 2019 | Colleagues and Comic Cons
In Memoriam-Howard Cruse 1944-2019 Many people have written eloquently about Howard Cruse in the last week since his death, Andy Mangels, Denis Kitchen and Chip Kidd among others. What I want you to know is something personal about Howie beyond the work and the...
Feb 26, 2014 | Colleagues and Comic Cons, The Pulps
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...
Feb 13, 2014 | Colleagues and Comic Cons
New Orleans Comic Con 2014Comics, 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...
Jul 30, 2013 | Colleagues and Comic Cons
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...
Jun 12, 2013 | Colleagues and Comic Cons
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....
Oct 31, 2011 | Colleagues and Comic Cons
The House is Haunted It’s Halloween and time for shivers of excitement. Ghouls, ghosts, goblins, witches and their black cats, bats flying and skeletons dancing in graveyards–Trick or Treat? Comic books are filled with superheroes fighting monsters...
