ComicBookHistorians
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Alex Grand, Comics historian & author of McFarlandbooks’ Understanding #Superhero #ComicBooks, from WSJ, #BBC, Today Show, #NPR, #Slugfest, CBH YouTube/Podcast.
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https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/understanding-superhero-comic-books/ 20-09-2015 07:10:42
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Click to watch: youtu.be/kfGxX12bIF8 #RicEstrada discuss his childhood in #Cuba with Ernest Hemingway, getting into the comic book business meeting #JohnPrentice , #EdCronin at #Hillman Publications, meeting #GilKane , depicting #DCComics ’ #WonderWoman .
#NeilGaiman discusses the ins and outs of long form #comicbook storytelling in #1991 on Prisoners of Gravity.
Another article in 1975 highlights that the improving characterization found in #comicbooks is another reason that adults are attracted to the medium.
Allan Jones and Tappan King discuss the history of #comicbooks in a news article, 'Zam! Powie! Comic Books put history in place' in 1972.
Click to watch: youtu.be/NXuPDMw7uQ0 the initial editor of both #ActionComics and #DetectiveComics , #GoldenAge #superhero #comicbook medium cofounder, #VinSullivan in 1998 about approving #BobKane & #BillFinger #Batman as well as #JoeShuster and #JerrySiegel #Superman .
#DwayneMcDuffie discusses his previous work at #MarvelComics and current projects with #MilestoneComics which was partnered with #DCComics , publishing #comicbooks like #Icon and #StaticShock in 1993.
David Armstrong interviewed Golden, Silver and #BronzeAge great, #IrvNovick in 1999 about his entry into #comicbooks in the late 1930s, working for #HarryChesler and Charles Biro at #LevGleason , working at #MLJ (Archie), & #DCComics Click to watch at CBH: youtu.be/cz_R0UFAaok
#ChrisClaremont discusses the difference between writing for an ongoing #superhero #comicbook series like #XMen and a #novel in #1991.
David Armstrong interviewed Irwin Donenfeld, former #SilverAge editorial director / executive Vice President of #DCComics about various corporate obstacles, the sales decline of the 1950s, mimicking #StanLee 's realistic approach to #superheroes , and more. youtu.be/nvT_dIiIP8s
#JoeKubert career interview shot in 1997 on set discussing his Golden, #Silver , #Bronze and #ModernAge involvement in both #superhero and nonsuperhero #comicbooks is clickable here:youtu.be/pHUNJjXYVrI. #Hawkman , #GreenBerets , #graphicnovels