Arlen Schumer is known for delivering powerful, energetic and entertaining "VisuaLectures." Explore a preview of his latest about Jack Kirby.
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko’s Midcentury Comics Art: Stranger Than Doctor Strange
The visuals in Doctor Strange and other effects-heavy films owe an inspirational debt to Marvel’s dazzling Steve Ditko.
From Classroom Doodler to Funny-Picture Publisher: Craig Yoe's Cartoon Evolution
I figured that this time, my encounter with Craig Yoe wouldn’t involve sex. But no, he just had to go slip in his Penis at the end. Yoe is a cartoonist, an author, a designer, and a historian, and the man behind IDW Publishing’s Yoe Books, a one-stop shop for visual thrills about comics...
Super Schumer Fights for Artist-Creator Credit
Never mind whether Captain America is more powerful than Iron Man or Dr. Strange. The real problem is that Marvel Comics editor/publisher Stan Lee is vastly more powerful than Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and many others who originally drew those superheroes for the company. And Lee presently enjoys 100 percent ownership of the Marvel...
Amazing X-Ray Glasses And 9000 Other Novelties – Johnson Smith & Co.
With Chicago’s “C2E2” 2012 ComicCon (http://www.c2e2.com/) approaching this week from April 13-15 at McCormick Place, it seems fitting that I do a piece on an aspect of comic books that everyone even remotely acquainted with the realm knows well – the Johnson Smith & Company of Detroit, Michigan. You may not recognize the firm’s...