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sSensor Sweep: Streranko, Wulf, Space Warships, Seven Ronin
Monday , 19, November 2018 Sensor Sweep 4 CommentsArtists (DMR Books): Jim Steranko‘s eightieth birthday snuck up on me. Hard to believe that number, because he’s still out there rollin’ like a boss. Jim is possibly the coolest eighty-year-old I know of. This is a last-minute post, so I’ll have to keep things brief. I first became aware of Jim in fifth grade […]
Between Sherlock Holmes and Marlowe: Nero Wolfe
Saturday , 25, November 2017 Authors, Before the Big Three, Fiction 13 CommentsIt’s easy to forget nowadays, given the legion of predictable, played-out, repetitive, and boring works, but the mystery genre is relatively young. The earliest notable entries were several Poe short stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin (1841-1844), Collins’ The Moonstone (1868), and Dickens’ unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). The Dupin stories were the earliest and most influential, […]
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