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Post by MDG on Oct 23, 2023 13:26:36 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 22, 2023 19:18:46 GMT -5
Detective Comics #278April 1960 My copy of this is from Schiff's collection. He was at Ithacon one year and his daughter was selling his books with a COA. Looking back, I really wish I knew more about him at that point and could talk to him intelligently about his career.
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Post by MDG on Oct 22, 2023 19:13:40 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 22, 2023 14:48:13 GMT -5
I had a little time over the last two weekends to sit down and re-read Sam Glanzman's A Sailor's Story. I owned the two graphic novels by Marvel where these were originally published back in the 80s, but they really aren't readily accessible and it's nice to have both of them in a single volume with the added material, including a new story by Glanzman and some really nice tributes by folks from the comics world. These two stories were really extensions of Glanzman's U.S.S. Stevens stories that ran as back-ups in DC's war books in the 70s. Glanzman served on the Stevens during World War II and these are really graphic memoirs of his war years on the ship. It's a truly amazing insight into the lives of normal "tin can sailors." Glanzman's diagrams of the ship and of the various sections lead to a lot greater understanding of what the sailors lived through. And while both stories were short enough that you didn't get a great feel for any single sailor (except maybe Sam) you did feel empathy for them, particularly in small way, such as when their mail from home was being transferred from ship to ship and ended up in the ocean, lost forever. I wasn't a reader of war comics as a kid. I have learned to appreciate them much better now, recognizing their strengths and limitations. DC had the advantage of some amazing artists, including Glanzman, Kubert, Russ Heath and Jerry Grandinetti. Yeah, these particular books were done for Marvel, but Glanzman honed his craft as to war comics at DC. Highly recommended...and now I will double down on efforts to get Dover's reprint of the complete U.S.S. Stevens. I'd really like to see Glanzman recognized more as one if the true pioneers of autobiographical comics.
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Post by MDG on Oct 22, 2023 11:13:53 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 22, 2023 11:07:29 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 21, 2023 13:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 21, 2023 10:46:06 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 21, 2023 8:27:09 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 21, 2023 8:20:09 GMT -5
I've never read a Valiant comic in my life. Neither did I, and I wrote six issues of X-O.
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Post by MDG on Oct 20, 2023 15:44:01 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 20, 2023 12:47:18 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 20, 2023 10:57:07 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 19, 2023 15:21:20 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Oct 19, 2023 10:59:25 GMT -5
I can re-read Spain's "Cruisin' with the Hound" anytime. Ditto Kim Deitch's "Hollywoodland" and Clowes' Lloyd Llewellyn collection.
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