COMIC BOOK HISTORY
Comic Book Artist magazine called me “one of the most enthusiastic advocates of comic book art in America,” and, once you scroll through my comic book history projects—including my coffeetable art book, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art, which won the Independent Publishers Award for Best Pop Culture Book of 2004—you’ll see that I have indeed dedicated my life to the elevation of comic book art as one of the greatest American art forms!
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PRINT magazine special issue on comics,November-December 1988; conceived issue, designed cover and wrote article, "The New Superheroes: A Graphic Transformation." |
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SUPERFRAUD1989 illustration promoting articles about fraudulent Superman artworks in the Warhol collection—collages dated 1961 using panels from comics published years later! |
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SUPERHERO TO ANTIHERO: COMIC BOOK ART IN THE 1960sinvitation to VisuaLecture at The Art Directors Club of New York, October 21, 1992. |
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COMICULTUREinvitation to VisuaLecture at The Art Directors Club of New York, May 24, 1995. |
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20th CENTURY COMIC BOOK ARTlogo for proposed continuing education course of VisuaLectures at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Fall 1995. |
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CURT SWANVisuaLecture eulogy delivered at the Connecticut chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, with the Swan family in attendance, Weston, CT, September 18, 1996 (Swan died on June 17). |
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NEAL ADAMS: THE DC YEARSspecial issue of Comic Book Marketplace #40, October 1996; designed cover (colored by Bill Sienkiewicz), and conducted, edited & designed 48-page interview. |
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THE GRAPHIC HISTORY OF BATMANten 27"x 55" hanging glass panel designs for the Words and Pictures Museum's retrospective Batman exhibition, Northampton, Mass., Spring 1997. |
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THE ART HISTORY OF SUPERMANsix 27"x 55" hanging glass panel designs for the Words and Pictures Museum's 60th Anniversary of Superman exhibition, Summer 1998. |
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NEAL ADAMS: THE MARVEL YEARSinterview conducted, edited & designed for Comic Book Artist magazine #3, Winter 1998-99. |
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NEAL ADAMS: THE SKETCHBOOKconceived, edited & designed for Vanguard Productions, 1999. |
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ALTER-EGO Vol. 2 #5(flip side of Comic Book Artist Vol. 1, #5), Summer 1999 cover design for my article, "The Bat-Man Cover Story.". |
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SUPERMAN VS. MUHAMMAD ALIinterview with Neal Adams for Comic Book Artist Special Edition, December 1999. |
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CARMINE INFANTINO8-page color section written & designed for Comic Book Marketplace #75, January 2000; reformatted as color section for The Amazing World of Carmine Infantino, Vanguard Productions, 2001. interview with Neal Adams for Comic Book Artist Special Edition, December 1999. |
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LOUIS NACKE AS SUPERMANportrait for the Society of Illustrators' 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, New York City, February 2002. |
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CURT SWAN16-page color section written & designed for Curt Swan: A Life in Comics, Vanguard Productions, 2002. |
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SUPERHEROES IN THE '60s: COMICS & COUNTERCULTUREarticle for Comic Art magazine #1, Fall 2002. |
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SUPERHEROES IN THE '60s: COMICS & COUNTERCULTUREposter for continuing education course of VisuaLectures at the City University of New York Graduate Center in Manhattan, Fall 2002. |
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THE SILVER AGE OF COMIC BOOK ARTcoffeetable art book conceived, written, edited & designed for Collectors Press, 2003; winner of the 2004 Independent Publishers' Award for Best Popular Culture Book. |
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MR. Xintroduction written for Dean Motter's Mr. X Volume One, ibooks, 2004. |
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THE SPIRIT4-page color feature written & designed for the Will Eisner memorial issue of Comic Book Artist Vol. 2 #6, Spring 2005. |
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JOE SINNOTTEssay for Brush Strokes with Greatness: The Life and Art of Joe Sinnott, Two Morrows Publishing, 2007. |
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IRON MANintroduction written for Marvel Masterworks: Iron Man Vol. 4, 2007. |
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SPIDER-MANessay, "How Could a Teenager be a Super Hero?" for Spider-Man Omnibus, Marvel Comics, 2007. |
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GRANT MORRISONintroduction, a VisuaLecture made up of Morrison's own words and images from the comics he's written, at the NY Comic Con, April 19, 2008. |
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THORintroduction written for Marvel Masterworks: Thor Vol. 7, 2008. |
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THE GRAPHIC DESIGNS OF JACK KIRBYessay for The Jack Kirby Collector #50, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2008. |
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GREAT COMIC BOOK TYPOGRAPHYVisuaLecture at The Type Directors Club, New York, September 17, 2009. |
