I’ve lived my life in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books, attending my first convention in 1970, hired by Marvel Comics... more
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While destroying hundreds of pages of bad poetry I scribbled as a teenager, I made a few surprising discoveries which... more
As I consider the way getting rejected by the Clarion Workshop in 1974 helped me break into comics and getting... more
A stack of mid-'70s Marvel Comics memos reminds me which Golden Age greats Stan Lee didn't want invited to the... more
Rummaging though a stack of mid-'70s memos has me remembering the time I attempted to convince Stan Lee to adapt... more
Staring at the hole in the ground which used to be NYC's Statler Hilton Hotel, home to my first comic... more
Mulling over whether 2024 me agrees with what 1984 me thought about 1974 me reminded me getting the gig to... more
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to list the many things I have to... more
A regrettable reminder to wish a dead comic book friend happy birthday sent me down a Marvel memories rabbit hole,... more
With the future seeming bleak, I felt the need to gaze into the past instead, sharing about the day in... more
Join me as I demonstrate the limits of my memory by telling tales of why my first Worldcon was supposed... more