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Happy Birthday, Gahan Wilson!

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Steven

If you’ve never heard the name Gahan Wilson, then you don’t know macabre cartoons—and you’ve been missing a lot of great ones. For sixty years, Wilson has been drawing creepy one-panel gags for magazines like The Twilight Zone, Playboy, National … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Stan “The Man” Lee!

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Steven

He’s one of the gods of comics, a living legend who co-created a world of iconic characters and made Marvel Comics the powerhouse publisher that it is—and today the man who brought us such superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the … Continue reading →

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Alex Nino: Superhero Artist?!

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Steven

Alex Nino, one of the great Filipino comic book artists and an all-around great guy, turns 75 tomorrow, and as you can tell from the photo above (taken at the 2004 San Diego Con) I once got to meet him. … Continue reading →

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The Things You Find on the Internet…

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Steven

At various times on this blog—usually in relation to the Tales of Development Hell projects I’ve written about—I’ve mentioned that I used to work for a New York publishing company called ibooks, inc., owned and operated by Byron Preiss, who passed … Continue reading →

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