A recent picture of artist Colleen Doran. Colleen is a nominee for this year’s Eisner Awards:
https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/
I have a 2004 photo Denro took of me meeting Colleen for the first time. I’ll try to find it. Here she is in a Zoom call with Jamar Nicholas of the National Cartoonists Society.
So sayeth the God of Thunder!
Yesterday’s Jeopardy! had this clue that I was pleased to see a younger person answering correctly.
At the NCS conference last August, Colleen Doran and I discussed how, generally, comic book people are more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books. Today’s Jumble has an exception to that generality.
Boomer boy that I am, Marvel Comics from the Sixties are one of my favorite things. Another is, of course, the Beatles.
LBJ was notorious for strong-arming legislators into voting his way. What if he had been a flat-out authoritarian president, like Trump? Could he have kept the Beatles out of America?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-president-deploy-wartime-law-203749200.html
Facebook has become a good source for blog-worthy photos. This one popped up today.
On that spinner rack of comics is Vault of Horror #27, cover dated Oct-Nov 1952. Two years later, the comic book witch hunt ended EC’s Old Witch.
As Ben Grimm would say, whatta revoltin’ development this is! Back on New Year’s Day, none of the Jeopardy! contestants knew the solution to this clue.
