Fantagraphics Books & Gallery
Our latest installment of Retail Therapy stayed close to home–by speaking with Larry Reid, of the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
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The Strange Case of Stan Lee
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?
Brand Force Trauma
Fiffe’s talking Flash, Stan in ’68, Jake’s going into surgery: Monday, hands down, the best day of the week.
Baron and Messner-Loebs’ Flash
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.
A Stan Lee Interview (1968)
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.
Marc Bell: Day Five
The grand finale.
What He Taught Me
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 & Jenette Kahn at Temple University
Stan Lee and Jenette Kahn discuss Marvel Comics’ expansion into multimedia projects in a 1978 Q&A at Philadelphia’s Temple University.
Marc Bell: Day Four
Trivia night
Marc Bell: Day Three
God bless the landlord.
Marc Bell: Day Two
Homespun Philosophy Corner.
Stan Lee, in Brief
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.
Stan Lee: 1922-2018
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.
Marc Bell: Day One
The Shrimpy and Paul cartoonist documents his ongoing residency at the artist-run Struts gallery in New Brunswick.
From Pulps to Panels: A Conversation with Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
Talking to the granddaughter of comics pioneer Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, whose company evolved into the DC Comics we know today.
“I Was This Era’s Cassandra All Along”: A Q&A with Warren Ellis
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.
