Today's Guest: Ger Apeldoorn, co-author, Behaving Madly: Zany, Loco, Cockeyed, Rip-off, Satire Magazines Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with GER APELDOORN by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of comic book fans who know biting social satire when they see themselves in it... Continue Reading →
1296 Young artist George Perez talks drawing comic books in 1976! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: George Perez, comic book artist, "Avengers," "Fantastic Four" (Back in 1976, a Connecticut newspaperman named Anthony Scialis started a comics- and science fiction-oriented fanzine he called Compass. Among its many other accomplishments, it gave a raw, 16-year-old boy from New Jersey a chance to do celebrity interviews, op-eds and general reporting. That boy... Continue Reading →
1197 Silver Age comics art never looked this good, folks! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Arlen Schumer, comic book historian, author of The Silver Age of Comic Book Art Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Arlen Schumer by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of comic book fans prone to arguing because only they can determine... Continue Reading →
Discuss: 1970s comic books were the best ever! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jason Sacks and Keith Dallas, author and editor, respectively of American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s, by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of guys who lost all hope in their lives when the Fans of Central Jersey... Continue Reading →
Who the heck was Don Heck at Marvel Comics’ birth? VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: John Coates, author, Don Heck: A Work of Art Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with John Coates, author of the Marvel Comics artist biography, Don Heck: A Work of Art, by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of comic book fans... Continue Reading →
The Secret History of Marvel Comics? Authors reveal it here! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Blake Bell and Michael Vassallo by clicking on the video player above!Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of poorly compensated, rapidly disappearing World War II-era writers and artists hoping against hope that a court will decide on copyright claims in their favor before they—oops,... Continue Reading →
American Comic Book Chronicles gets majors, minors right! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media® interview with Keith Dallas, editor, American Comic Book Chronicles, by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of fanboys who think they know it all about Charlton, Dell, Gold Key, ACG and Harvey comic books but won't until they actually... Continue Reading →
It’s the Stan Lee Universe; we’re just superhero fodder! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Roy Thomas and Danny Fingeroth, former Marvel Comics editors, co-authors, The Stan Lee Universe. Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of former Marvel Comics editors lounging around in their Spidey Underoos… in the NEW new media capital of the world, St. Petersburg, Florida! Every Marvel Comics fan knows the names... Continue Reading →
Legendary cartoonist Joe Kubert’s life rocks biography! PODCAST INTERVIEW
(NOTE: I'm sad to update this 2009 interview with the news that author and comics historian Bill Schelly passed away on September 12 2019. He was 67, You can read a little more about Bill in this blog post by Mark Evanier. Rest in piece, Bill. Thanks for gathering so much history for all... Continue Reading →
Enter the Strange World of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Blake Bell, author, Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko Steve Ditko is a mystery. And in view of the cosmic and ethereal manner of his comic book art style, from Spider-Man and Dr. Strange to the lesser-known Mr. A, that may be appropriate. Blake Bell, whose interest as a fan... Continue Reading →