Run for your lives! Hide the women and children! There’s a Ten-Cent Plague loose upon this fine land! My guest today, David Hajdu, is the author of a new book that – at the very least – probably has the best title of the year, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How... Continue Reading →
Disguised as Clark Kent, Danny Fingeroth can soar! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Danny Fingeroth spends a whole lot of time thinking about superheroes. For several years, he did it as the editor of the Spider-Man group of titles at Marvel Comics. Today, he’s the editor of Write Now! magazine and author of two books that go behind the four-color glory of men in tights. Already the... Continue Reading →
Elfquest creator Wendy Pini dabbles in Poe’s Red Death! PODCAST INTERVIEW
You know when you meet someone early in your life how that’s the person they will always be in your mind’s eye? That’s how I’ll always see Wendy Pini. I was a teenager with a comic book fixation, and she was a stunning redhead who dressed up at comic book conventions as Red Sonja,... Continue Reading →
59 Jim Lee is one of comics all-time art heroes! INTERVIEW
Originally Published September 23, 1996 Jim Lee is sitting on a time bomb. The most second-guessed man in comic books today — and perhaps the most popular creator in the industry — just engineered the death of the Fantastic Four, the longest-running characters in the Marvel Comics Universe. Killing a comic book character isn't easy.... Continue Reading →
47 Dark Horse Comics Publisher Mike Richardson explains himself! INTERVIEW
Mike Richardson finds himself either at the end of a great tradition or the beginning of a new one. That's the lot of comic book publishers these days. Their industry is at the end of its latest 20-year cycle, with newsstand sales a thing of the past, direct sales through comic book stores on the... Continue Reading →
39 Legendary Dennis O’Neil on writing, editing Batman comics! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Dennis O'Neil, writer, editor, Batman comic books (Originally published around 1996.) Is it fair to speak the word "Batman" in the same breath as Hamlet? "There is no one right way to do this character any more than there is one right way to do Hamlet," insists Dennis O'Neil, editor of nine Batman... Continue Reading →
27 Comic book writer Chuck Dixon on Simpsons, Batman, Bane, more! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Chuck Dixon, comic book writer, "The Simpsons, "Batman" Part 1 of 2 One of the most anticipated movies of this summer -- no, not Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix -- and no, Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer -- is The Simpsons Movie. And while Matt Groening couldn’t make... Continue Reading →