January 24th—I’m back, baby! It’s been a while, but it’s a new year, new beginnings! This picture was taken by photographer Joan Dooley when I was standing in front of the lecture screen at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles last November 8th, where I had just finished presenting my new VisuaLecture to Michael Dooley’s (Joan’s hubby) Design History class, “Illustration & Comic Art”! Joan yelled “Freeze!” and thus a new profile pic was born: a “Living Lichtenstein” it was dubbed! For more on the lecture: http://www.workbook.com/blog/tag/arlen-schumer-visualecture#page=1
HANK WEISINGER—SON OF MORT—AT NYCC! Here’s a great chance to meet the man who, as a boy, acted as a one-man focus group for his father’s Silver Age Superman ideas that infected (pun intended) us all! Hank’ll be at my booth SATURDAY ONLY (
#2376 in the small press area on the main floor), where he and I will be signing and selling copies of my 16-pg verbal/visual cover feature in the recent Alter Ego magazine, “Requiem for Weisinger,” (using Mort’s own words & Curt Swan’s images):
http://comicsbulletin.com/columns/4826/can-mort-weisinger-be-redeemed/
The very first words spoken on the very first episode of the greatest TV series of all time, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, the Father of American Pop Culture, on October 2, 1959, not only introduced the concept of the series, but ushered America into the 1960s: “The Place is here..the time is now…and the journey into the shadows that we’re about to watch could be our journey…” Indeed.
TONIGHT IN NEW YORK CITY I’ll be reading/discussing my AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS—and projecting it sequentially on the screen—at The NY COMICS & PICTURE-STORY SYMPOSIUM, 7-9pm (with another speaker first) at Parsons/The New School, 66 5th Avenue (at 13th Street), room 818, NYC. Free and open to the public! (pic from my panel at this summer’s San Diego Comicon) http://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/
PODCAST TONITE! I’ll be talkin’ ‘bout my 2 verbal/visual essays out now, THE AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS and MORT WEISINGER/SUPERMAN with host Mike Alonzo—and more! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/grenache/2012/09/14/clobberin-time-2012thursday-night-arlen-again
Starting today, I will be uploading 1 spread per day from my 16-page AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS verbal/visual essay (signed first edition for purchase to support the Jack kirby Museum at http://kirbymuseum.org/2012SanDiego), leading up to next
MONDAY nite’s presentation at The NY COMICS & PICTURE-STORY SYMPOSIUM, September 17th, 7-9pm (with another speaker first) at Parsons/The New School, 66 5th Avenue (at 13th Street), room 818, NYC. Free and open to the public!
http://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/about/
