by Howard Zimmerman | Mar 2, 2014 | Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Publishing, Tribute
On March 6th, Will Eisner would have been 97 years old. For the uninitiated, Eisner (after whom the major awards in the comic book industry are named) was one of the founding fathers of the modern comic book. His studio, Eisner and Eiger, produced the first comics...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 30, 2013 | Comic Books, Publishing, Rock Scene Magazine, Starlog
The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the greatest explosion of science fiction since the 1940s, when the genre had found its first audience here in America. In 1977, Starlog magazine published a preview of an upcoming new space-opera that was causing a buzz, a little...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 19, 2013 | Comic Books, Isaac Asimov, Rock Scene Magazine, Starlog
In 1976 I was still teaching third grade in the New York public school system, but I was also writing freelance for magazines about pop culture subjects, like science fiction and comics. I had a column called “The “Super” Market in Rock Scene Magazine, a...
by Howard Zimmerman | Aug 15, 2013 | Comic Books
Okay—so I’m a Boomer. Some good from that—“sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll”—and some not so good: aging, friends and relatives passing away, the assassination of the president and his brother, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War. But on the plus side, I got to...
by Howard Zimmerman | May 25, 2012 | Comic Books, Dinosaurs, Science Fiction, Starlog
When I was a child, I had several major loves. These included science fiction, paleontology, and graphic storytelling. I knew them better as sci-fi, dinosaurs, and comics. Some kids wanted to be a fireman or a cowboy. I wanted to be Buck Rogers. When I was six or...
by Howard Zimmerman | May 3, 2012 | Comic Books
I see parents on various online forums asking how old a child should be to introduce him or her to comics, and which ones might be good to start with. Okay, gentle people, there is no age limit. There are age-appropriate titles in most categories, and you can find...
