Among comic book fans, the legend of EC Comics loomed large. Even among readers who'd never experienced the books firsthand, there was an awareness of how the company had set a high benchmark for quality, and how they'd been undone and destroyed by the implementation of the Comics Code. There's been occasional attempts to recapture … Continue reading FSC: TWISTED TALES #1
Back at Christmas 1978, I was working my way through the fourth and latest release in the ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS line of Trade Paperbacks from Simon & Schuster: THE SUPERHERO WOMEN. This book was a bit more of a mixed bag than the earlier ones and relied more on material that was more contemporary--the … Continue reading BHOC: THE SUPERHERO WOMEN
A post from my old Marvel blog about how I would go about picking the creators to work on a given title. Monday, 5:24 permalink 2006-10-10 09:56:08 I'm asked fairly constantly how one goes about selecting a new creative team for a given series, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about that today.I … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Selecting A Creative Team
