It’s a super heroic birthday for the Major—130 years ago January 7, 1890. And it’s only taken 20 plus years to get a semblance of recognition for the man. I say semblance because his name should be synonymous with comics and that hasn’t quite happened yet. MWN circa 1920 from Strahan family collection. Please [...]
San Diego Comic Con--the media hype--a gigantic party that an elite group of people and determined fans attend and hang out with tv and movie stars. It's true that it's a giant party and it's true there are loyal and determined fans but as for an elite group rubbing shoulders with the stars, not quite. [...]
My local comic book store, Escapist Comics on Claremont Avenue in Berkeley, CA is right down the hill from me. It is in an elitist neighborhood of million dollar plus homes not far from the grand old Claremont Hotel. There's a small section of commercial establishments on Claremont including the infamous Star Market where it [...]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Superman! Truth, justice and the American way and George Reeves flying across the black and white screen of an early 50’s television set is indelibly printed on my brain. Like so many other children of that era, I pinned the requisite towel to my tee shirt and [...]
Breathlessly I jumped in the roadster knowing that time was running out if I was going to make it to the rendezvous that would change my life. Sailing past the mean streets of the City with its hustlers and dreamers I made it--well--just in the Nick of time. Watch it, big boy! © respective [...]
After all the Comic Con excitement it's time for some pulp excitement. I'm heading down to New Jersey on Saturday so that I can attend Pulp AdventureCon sponsored by Bold Venture Press. This event has been ongoing for several years and I missed last year and promised myself that wouldn't happen again so I'm heading [...]
I have spoken about Alex Simmons many times in this blog. Alex is a wonderful comic book writer for Archie Comics and his own comic book BlackJack featuring an African-American hero. And that's not all. He and Eugene Adams, a teacher at Bronx Community College have been presenting Kids Comic Con for the last years [...]
I left the Gulf Coast in 1968 to attend school in what seemed to be far away Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham-Southern College is a liberal arts school in every sense of the word. It is liberal and it has a strong arts community. We used to call the local John Birch Society for a laugh because [...]
Earlier this year DC/WB announced their intention of producing a documentary on the 75th Anniversary of DC Comics. The good news is that DC/WB decided to give Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson a small cameo and it's at the very beginning so that's quite nice. Hooray! However, it is a slightly awkward situation. If this were [...]
Sorry about the long delay between posts but we had an invasion of spam bots or whatever it is they’re called these days and it took a while to finally figure out where they were getting in—like rats through a keyhole. The exterminator has given us a clean bill of health so here we go [...]