Roger’s Comic Ramblings: Something A Bit Different
Jim Starlin's Warlock
Westfield’s Roger Ash talks about two creators who he feels takes the art of comics to the next level, Jim Starlin and Jeff Smith.
Westfield’s Roger Ash talks about two creators who he feels takes the art of comics to the next level, Jim Starlin and Jeff Smith.
Roger’s Comic Ramblings: I Have A Time Machine
Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne
Westfield’s Roger Ash tells us all about his time machine and talks about John Byrne’s run on Marvel’s Fantastic Four and Jim Starlin’s original Warlock story for Marvel.
KC Column: The Never-Ending Story Part 1
by KC Carlson
Though we may be inundated by it in current superhero comic books, long-form serialized storytelling is nothing new.
The idea of telling a long-form storyline as a series of chapters originally dates back to somewhere between the mid-8th and the mid-13th century. The work in question? One Thousand and One Nights, more colloquially known in English as the Arabian Nights. They are actually a series of independent stories gathered together with a framing device, but as originally told, each story was shared over a period of nights, including some kind of “cliffhanger” ending, which would be resolved the following night. Some of the more famous of the stories include “Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp”, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, and “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor”, all of which are probably much better known to several generations of American children as the basis for three very memorable (and historically important) Popeye the Sailor cartoons.
Roger’s Comic Ramblings: Magic Time
by Roger Ash
“What the heck is magic time, Roger?”
Good question! For the purpose of this column, “Magic Time” refers when comics were magic to you. I’ve found that with many of my friends this is the time shortly after you discovered comics and they had the biggest impression on you. It’s the time when you couldn’t wait for new comic day at your local comic shop, or if you’re old like me, when you’d haunt the spinner rack at the local convenience store looking for new issues of your favorite comics. Or when you were sure every UPS truck that drove down the street had your latest shipment from Westfield. (Yes, I know Westfield doesn’t ship by UPS now, but they did back when I was a customer.)