Fantagraphics Books & Gallery
Our latest installment of Retail Therapy stayed close to home–by speaking with Larry Reid, of the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
Our latest installment of Retail Therapy stayed close to home–by speaking with Larry Reid, of the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
When Lee passed away last week, non-comics world friends reached out to me to express condolences. They knew I loved comics and that I’m interested in the history of the medium… Clearly, this was a loss, right?
Fiffe’s talking Flash, Stan in ’68, Jake’s going into surgery: Monday, hands down, the best day of the week.
Fiffe had a Flash itch, and like any real comics fan, there’s only one true Flash: Wally West, the fastest IRS employee in the history of American taxation.
In this interview, Ted White captures Lee at the peak of ’60s success. It is a snapshot of the day-to-day of the Marvel offices at that time. Sol Brodsky cameos.
The grand finale.
Stan, Jack, and Stan’s kid brother didn’t create Thor, the Norse god of thunder, or Loki, or Odin, or Asgard, or any of all that. Asserting that they did is silly on the face and yet …
Stan Lee and Jenette Kahn discuss Marvel Comics’ expansion into multimedia projects in a 1978 Q&A at Philadelphia’s Temple University.
Trivia night
God bless the landlord.
Homespun Philosophy Corner.
Who —or what— was Stan Lee? Editor, hustler, hatchet man, corporate player, shill, writer, frustrated novelist, success, failure, catalyst, front man, self-parody, hack, exploiter, innovator.
There may be no figure in the history of comics simultaneously more revered and more reviled than Lee, the human face of the comics industry for a generation.
The Shrimpy and Paul cartoonist documents his ongoing residency at the artist-run Struts gallery in New Brunswick.
Talking to the granddaughter of comics pioneer Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, whose company evolved into the DC Comics we know today.
Warren Ellis has been one of the most prolific comics writers of the last twenty years, and he’s spent the last few years working on any manner of different books. John Maher caught up with him about the books that most recently escaped his pen.