As I wrote over at ComicMix, Dick Giordano was a terrific teacher, mentor, and boss.Clearly, I was not alone in these sentiments and people have been filling the web with accolades and anecdotes.Today, many of those who worked with him gathered for a Memorial. DC Comics has always hosted lovely memorials for recently departed staff, […]
Diamond Comics is the 800-pound gorilla in the comics field. They are the #1 distributor and every year they hand out their Diamond Awards in a variety of categories.This year
The lack of work has also left me with a lack of interesting things to be promoting and chatting about. I never meant the blog to be so silent for so long.So, let’s see what’s been going on.I just received the final galleys to The Essential Superman Encyclopedia for letters N-Z and I have to […]
It’s been fairly quiet around here, hence the lack of more frequent posts. But now that the three-day weekend has come and gone, things are getting back into routine so I figured I’d update you on where things are.Captain Midnight Chronicles: Moonstone’s Joe Gentile tells me the book is at the printers and running just […]
The adage is that freelancers spend 80% of their time seeking work and actually completing assignments the other 20% of the time. Of late, my life seems to be more 95%-5% as several projects of mine have been unexpectedly postponed, leaving me to find replacement assignments.Since falling into the fulltime freelance life in August 2007, […]
In an effort to explain the process, I wrote about the State Convention over at The Patch but wanted to share some personal thoughts here.As Vice-Chair of the local party, I took on the role of recording secretary at the show, keeping me a little more focused on the action and rooted to our seating […]
Last week I stated I hated political rah-rah events, noting they are messy, longer-than-necessary affairs.Well, last night, I participated in a local political event that was rah-rah but far more focused and effective.Prior to the beginning of our monthly Democratic Town Committee meeting we had the 132nd Caucus to nominate our candidate to run for […]
Well, that was interesting.Last night was the first RTM meeting and it got off to an odd start. I
DC Comics’ August in store solicitations went live today and I want to call your attention to the following:BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #20Written by BOB GREENBERGERArt and cover by ROBERT POPE & SCOTT MCRAEBig Barda enlists the help of the World’s Greatest Detective to find the World’s Greatest Escape Artist! But when the […]
As some of you may recall, I wrote an essay for Grey’s Anatomy 101 for BenBella’s SmartPop series. The essays covered events during the ABC series’ first two season and is a nifty little time capsule for diehard fans of the show.In honor of Grey’s Anatomy’s two-hour season finale this week BenBella is hosting a […]