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Mind in the Gutter: Origins

On alternating Fridays, Leah Schnelbach waxes rhapsodic about comics, education, religion, and postmodernity. David Foster Wallace would be proud.

Okay, so it’s been a busy week, so this is going to be a short one – the obligatory comics geek origin story. (I’m fine with the term “geek”, btw, my friends and I wore the term as a badge of honor just slightly before it was cool – and anything was better than “nerd” – so I’m kind of attached to it.)

I’m 15. My best girlfriend keeps talking about this writer she’s heard of, Neil Diamond or something.

I’m like, “Neil Diamond writes comics?”

2009: 03/20
POSTED BY: leah
CATEGORY: Mind in the Gutter
TAGS: comics
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Ramblings of a Fanboy: First Tastes

On alternating Thursdays, Lee French looks at modern fandom through the lens of his own behavior and obsessions.

by Lee French

I have been a fan of superheroes for as long as I can remember. Although some of my earliest memories are vague, there are a few vivid standouts. Among them are Superman and Batman, both of which I was first introduced to through television and movies before I came to appreciate the characters in their native media of comic books. I remember seeing an episode or two of the ’60s Batman show when I was very young, maybe three, but it honestly did not leave a lasting impression on me back then, even though my first ever action figure was a Super-Powers Robin (with Karate-Chop action!). Instead the nearly omnipotent alien had a monopoly on my attention, and it would be years before I became fixated on the Dark Knight.
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2009: 02/12
POSTED BY: lee
CATEGORY: Ramblings of a Fanboy
TAGS: comic
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Die by the Pen: Jared 101

Every Wednesday, Jared Gniewek discusses what feeds his fires as an author of comics, screenplays and radio dramas.

by Jared Gniewek

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When I was a small boy I lived in a small city called Clinton, Iowa. It lies just north of the Quad Cities, and has an incredible public swimming pool. We lived about a stone’s throw from the Mississippi River and in my mind (ala Woody Allen in Annie Hall living directly under the roller coaster) the mighty river flowed through the alley directly behind our house. As a fourth grader there, I had a ritual. Every Tuesday after brawling in the schoolyard I would walk the five or six blocks of tree-lined streets to the local Library. The children’s section was where I first discovered many of my passions: Time-Life books on the supernatural, UFOs, cryptozoology, Grimm’s fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Lang’s colored Fairy Books, Bullfinch’s Mythology, L. Frank Baum, and photo-picture book adaptations of cheesy monster movies.

It was as though they had a section in the card catalogue entitled “Jared’s Brain”. I’m not sure where that would lie in the Dewey Decimal System but the numbers would probably all add up to AWESOME!