“Poverty and Comics Don’t Mix (Unless You’re a Creator or Comics JOURNALIST)…” – On One Reason Why Comics Journalism Routinely SUCKS

Please allow me, if you will, to state at the offset that I am not against comics journalism. I am for it, wholeheartedly. It’s just that I sincerely continue to be amazed at how much it fumbles the ball while at the same time publicly commenting on the upwards trajectory it faces and the need […]

“It Was a Dichotomy that Made No Sense”- Reexamining 2011’s ‘Lee & Kirby: The Wonder years’

I’ll admit to being a bit conflicted upon reviewing Mark Alexander’s sentimental study of Stan Lee & Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four run from 2011, ‘Lee & Kirby: The Wonder Years‘, published by TwoMorrows Publishing (and doubling as the 58th issue of The Jack Kirby Collector, albeit in a deluxe, trade paperback format) for what I’d […]

“Selfy With God”- A Look At The Banal, Misguided & Nauseating Tribute Art After Stan Lee’s Death

It’s now been half a decade since the untimely passing of Stan Lee, creator and co-creator, editor and art director, modern Mark Twain and/or Shakespeare– surely, there won’t be a dry eye in the house once we get through this highly moving selection of tribute art that arose in the days after Lee’s death in […]