Comments on: Real Fact…Or Fiction? http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/ Home of the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: arlen schmer http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-4865 arlen schmer Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:55:37 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=384#comment-4865 I'm arlen schumer, the guy who discovered the swipe for Tec 27 back in 1999 (Alter Ego #5, back of Comic Book ARtist vol.1 #5), and Dial B for Blog credited a coupla years ago; if you don't have the article (& cover) I wrote, e-mail me & I'll send it to you as a PDF file! --arlen arlen@arlenschumer.com www.arlenschumer.com 203-298-0374; cell: 203-803-6512 ARLEN SCHUMER is one of the foremost historians of comic book art, named by Comic Book Artist magazine in 1998 as "one of the more articulate and enthusiastic advocates of comic book art in America." He’s written articles appearing in Print magazine, including The New Graphics of Comic Book Art in 1988; presented multimedia “visuaLectures” at The New York Art Directors Club, 1992's Superhero to Antihero: Comic Book Art in the 1960s, and ComiCulture in '95; and created exhibit designs for the Words and Pictures Museum in Northampton, Massachusetts, The Graphic History of Batman in 1997 and The Art History of Superman in '98. In the Fall of 2009 he presented a visuaLecture, Great Comic Book Typography, at The Type Directors Club in New York City. In the Fall of ‘02 he presented a visuaLecture series, Superheroes in the ‘60s: Comics & Counterculture, at The CUNY Graduate Center in New York City; he reprised it for CUNY in the Fall of 2003, this time titled, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art, to tie-in with his coffeetable art book of the same name, released in December 2003 from Collectors Press (www.amazon.com/Silver-Age-Comic-Book Art/dp/1888054867/ref=dp_return_2/102-3932749-3481757?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books), and winner of The Independent Book Publishers Award for Best Popular Culture Book of 2003. He continues to lecture on The Silver Age (www.wolfmanproductions.com/comics.htm) at colleges and universities. Schumer's first book, Visions From The Twilight Zone, published by Chronicle Books in 1991 (www.amazon.com/Visions-Twilight-Zone-Arlen-Schumer/dp/0877017255), was based on the classic TV series, treating its images like art photography and its words like poetry. He based a multimedia presentation on the book, which he still tours around the country, along with his other mini-marathon/visuaLecture, The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone. His latest presentation, The Twilight Zone Forever, commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the series, October 2, 2009 at The New York Times’ TimesCenter in New York City (www.paleycenter.org/the-twilight-zone-forever/). Schumer is also one of comic book art’s most idiosyncratic practitioners, creating award-winning illustrations for the advertising and editorial markets the past two decades (www.arlenschumer.com). Other books and projects include: The Flintstones: Anatomy of a Pop Culture Classic (Hanna-Barbera, 1994) Neal Adams: The Sketch Book (Vanguard Productions, 1999) Streetwise (TwoMorrows Publications, 2000) The Amazing World of Carmine Infantino (Vanguard, 2000) Curt Swan: A Life in Comics (Vanguard, 2002) I’m arlen schumer, the guy who discovered the swipe for Tec 27 back in 1999 (Alter Ego #5, back of Comic Book ARtist vol.1 #5), and Dial B for Blog credited a coupla years ago; if you don’t have the article (& cover) I wrote, e-mail me & I’ll send it to you as a PDF file!
–arlen
arlen@arlenschumer.com
http://www.arlenschumer.com

203-298-0374; cell: 203-803-6512

ARLEN SCHUMER is one of the foremost historians of comic book art, named by Comic Book Artist magazine in 1998 as “one of the more articulate and enthusiastic advocates of comic book art in America.” He’s written articles appearing in Print magazine, including The New Graphics of Comic Book Art in 1988; presented multimedia “visuaLectures” at The New York Art Directors Club, 1992′s Superhero to Antihero: Comic Book Art in the 1960s, and ComiCulture in ’95; and created exhibit designs for the Words and Pictures Museum in Northampton, Massachusetts, The Graphic History of Batman in 1997 and The Art History of Superman in ’98. In the Fall of 2009 he presented a visuaLecture, Great Comic Book Typography, at The Type Directors Club in New York City.

In the Fall of ‘02 he presented a visuaLecture series, Superheroes in the ‘60s: Comics & Counterculture, at The CUNY Graduate Center in New York City; he reprised it for CUNY in the Fall of 2003, this time titled, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art, to tie-in with his coffeetable art book of the same name, released in December 2003 from Collectors Press (www.amazon.com/Silver-Age-Comic-Book Art/dp/1888054867/ref=dp_return_2/102-3932749-3481757?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books), and winner of The Independent Book Publishers Award for Best Popular Culture Book of 2003. He continues to lecture on The Silver Age (www.wolfmanproductions.com/comics.htm) at colleges and universities.

Schumer’s first book, Visions From The Twilight Zone, published by Chronicle Books in 1991 (www.amazon.com/Visions-Twilight-Zone-Arlen-Schumer/dp/0877017255), was based on the classic TV series, treating its images like art photography and its words like poetry. He based a multimedia presentation on the book, which he still tours around the country, along with his other mini-marathon/visuaLecture, The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone. His latest presentation, The Twilight Zone Forever, commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the series, October 2, 2009 at The New York Times’ TimesCenter in New York City (www.paleycenter.org/the-twilight-zone-forever/).

Schumer is also one of comic book art’s most idiosyncratic practitioners, creating award-winning illustrations for the advertising and editorial markets the past two decades (www.arlenschumer.com). Other books and projects include:

The Flintstones: Anatomy of a Pop Culture Classic (Hanna-Barbera, 1994)
Neal Adams: The Sketch Book (Vanguard Productions, 1999)
Streetwise (TwoMorrows Publications, 2000)
The Amazing World of Carmine Infantino (Vanguard, 2000)
Curt Swan: A Life in Comics (Vanguard, 2002)

]]> By: The Year of the Bat – Golden Age of Comic Books http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-316 The Year of the Bat – Golden Age of Comic Books Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:42:22 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=384#comment-316 [...] much on the character, as on the origin of the comic book appearance itself.  Now, if you read my post about Kane and Finger, you know that I’m not going to focus on the “real facts” of how Batman was [...] [...] much on the character, as on the origin of the comic book appearance itself.  Now, if you read my post about Kane and Finger, you know that I’m not going to focus on the “real facts” of how Batman was [...]

]]> By: The Fortress Keeper http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-163 The Fortress Keeper Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:24:38 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=384#comment-163 That's a rather appalling comic. I wonder which of Kane's ghosts drew it? Geez ... it would be really awful if Finger scripted the piece. That’s a rather appalling comic. I wonder which of Kane’s ghosts drew it?

Geez … it would be really awful if Finger scripted the piece.

]]> By: Chris Johnson http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Chris Johnson Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:11:45 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=384#comment-139 That Dial B For Blog feature really made me feel for Bill Finger. Not only did it take over 20 years for Finger to receive credit for all the Batman stories he'd written, but after his death, DC published a cruel parody of him. That Dial B For Blog feature really made me feel for Bill Finger. Not only did it take over 20 years for Finger to receive credit for all the Batman stories he’d written, but after his death, DC published a cruel parody of him.

]]> By: Pat Curley http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Pat Curley Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:03:50 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=384#comment-138 Amen, Bill. Dial B for Blog had a great feature a year or so ago showing how much of the art from the first Batman story in Detective #27 was cribbed from elsewhere. I recently read online a letter that Kane wrote to one of the fanzines in the 1960s where Kane claimed that he still drew the bulk of the stories himself, and after reading that I lost what little remaining respect I had for Kane. Amen, Bill. Dial B for Blog had a great feature a year or so ago showing how much of the art from the first Batman story in Detective #27 was cribbed from elsewhere. I recently read online a letter that Kane wrote to one of the fanzines in the 1960s where Kane claimed that he still drew the bulk of the stories himself, and after reading that I lost what little remaining respect I had for Kane.

]]> By: Chris Johnson http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/2009/01/03/real-factor-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Chris Johnson Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:52:43 +0000 http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/?p=384#comment-137 I remember when I thought Bob Kane was the coolest comic creator ever because he created Batman. Now whenever I see him credited in a reprint collection, all I can think is, "Are you sure he drew it?" I remember when I thought Bob Kane was the coolest comic creator ever because he created Batman. Now whenever I see him credited in a reprint collection, all I can think is, “Are you sure he drew it?”

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