Tag: History
2014 Happy New Year, Everyone!
Well the minutes are ticking down in this timezone, and as is tradition we see out 2013 with the JC Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post...
RIP: Smithfield
Well, another bar is closing in New York: Smithfield on 28th Street. This was mostly a soccer/sports bar, as the above photo of Six Alex Ferguson, legendary manager of Man United, hanging out with the owners shows. But as Ben and I knew these owners and much of the staff, this was also a little bit of a comic book bar.
Jenette Kahn Interviewed at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Former DC publisher Jenette Kahn isn't mentioned too much around comics these days, but was undoubtedly a pioneering force in comics, helping shepherd in...
A new clip The Image Revolution: how it went down
The Image Revolution is the latest documentary from Sequart/Patrick Meaney and it covers the whole story of how seven of the most popular Marvvel...
Mark Evanier may have solved the Al Plastino/JFK/Superman mystery
Just before he died a few days ago, Golden Age artist Al Plastino got a lot of ink for what seemed like a sad...
50th Anniversaries: Doctor Who and the Kennedy Assassination
Fifty years ago today a SF show called Doctor Who debuted in England. Festivities and surprises are planned to celebrate this anniversary.
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MARCH soars to #12 on Amazon after Rachel Maddow appearance
MARCH made it to Maddow last night, as Rep. John Lewis, co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell appeared on the Rachel Maddow show...
24 Hours of Halloween: a Salute to Ben Cooper Costumes
Long before cosplay and pop up costume stores radically upped the ante, and Hwlloween became the second biggest adult holiday of the year, there were Ben Cooper costumes.
Gene Deitch’s Nudnik joins Tumblr, Twitter and so on
As long as we're talking about the groovy 60s, the angular, sketchy cartoons of Gene Deitch (father of Kim) were a staple of the...
The day Archie’s publisher put the heat on J. Edgar Hoover over dirty comic...
Back in 1960, Archie Publisher John L. Goldwater told FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover that he was WRONG about dirty comic books
Best idea ever: Shatner and West kibbitz at Salt Lake City con
HOW has no one ever thought of this before? Putting William Shatner and Adam West—the two most mellifluous, self mocking and endearing of legendary...
Stan Lee has an archive, but you will probably never be able to see...
In an era when more and more collection of personal comics papers are being given to scholarly institutions (Columbia's Karen Green and OSU's Jenny Robb being among the leaders of this particular movement) it came as a bit of a surprise to be reminded where Stan Lee's papers are housed: Laramie, WY. Sequential Tart's Katie Frank made the arduous journey to the archive at the University of Wyoming, braving raging rivers, scaling giant redwoods and sustained on morning dew from maple leaves, but she made it.
