I sat in the offices of DEFIANT and listened attentively as editor-in-chief Jim Shooter spoke with the co-creator of Spider-Man and artist, Steve Ditko. Now, I’d been raised in a...
If there’s anything equally as annoying as “mansplaining” feminism, it must be a middle-aged white person like myself “white-splaining” racism. I’m going to try very hard not to do that. ...
As I write this, tonight is the first televised Republican debate and the last Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I’m really interested in both, but that’s not what I’m writing about...
My apartment is like a cave, dark and cool. I prowl around in it like a bear. My apartment is cool because I have the air-conditioning on in the rooms...
Sometimes, I’m lazy. Sometimes, I go for the low-hanging fruit Sometimes, I must vent about Donald Trump. He is so very very very annoying. As a New Yorker, this is...
Last week, I read this article and it has obsessed me ever since. It even crept into my comic book ruminations. The article is about being a jerk and, to a...
I’ve known Michael Davis, self-proclaimed master of the universe, for roughly two decades. In 2013, as a special guest at Comic-Con, he was described thus…Davis is “an artist, writer, mentor,...
Last Friday, when the Supreme Court affirmed the right for all citizens to marry, my first reaction was to sigh that my own spouse wasn’t here to see it happen. ...
I have no more affection for the Confederate battle flag than I do for the flag of the Third Reich. Both, unhappily, represent dehumanizing ideologies that incited people to go...
I had wanted to write about the recent Jeff Ross special on Comedy Central, in which he goes to a prison and performs for the inmates. It’s a remarkably nuanced,...
Maybe I should wait a week and write about this for Fathers Day. That would be the mature, culturally responsible thing to do, giving people a little order in their...
Over a decade ago, I was talking with an old friend who had recently come out to me as transgendered. She was hurt, on a daily basis, by innumerable slights...
I first met Jim Shooter when I brought samples of my pencilling work to Valiant Comics sometime in the early 90’s. The person reviewing my work was former Marvel DEFENDERS...
