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Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:45:33 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Off His Meds?:
J. L. said, "The New York Times article on the arrest of pharmaceutical investor Martin Shkreli begins:It has been a busy week for Martin Shkreli, the flamboyant businessman at the center of the drug industry’s price-gouging scandals.He said he would sharply..." more
Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:45:33 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled “References of actual Robin fight scenes”:
J. L. said, "Matt Santori-Griffith’s interview with Grayson artist Mikel Janin at Comicosity in January was mostly the upbeat puffery we should expect from comics creators while they’re still marketing their current magazines. Nevertheless, it contains some..." more
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:21:21 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Marvelous Land in Minneapolis:
J. L. said, "Back in 1981, the Children’s Theatre Company and School of Minneapolis staged a production of L. Frank Baum’s The Marvelous Land of Oz. On its blog the company has posted some photographs and videos of the show, along with these production..." more
Monday, December 14, 2015 7:21:18 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Studying Southern Weirdness to Death:
J. L. said, "Travis Rozier and Bob Hodges have put out a call for papers on “The Weird & the Southern Imaginary,” with a deadline of January 18, 2016.They state:The Weird & the Southern Imaginary will introduce the aesthetics and generic conventions..." more
Saturday, December 12, 2015 2:59:17 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Underestimating an Audience:
J. L. said, "Earlier this week I attended an unusual book event at the Public Library of Brookline. Author M. T. Anderson read the introduction of his new nonfiction book, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. He..." more
Friday, December 11, 2015 3:47:13 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled OIP Derangement Syndrome Trumping Facts:
J. L. said, "Recently a reporter from the Washington Post sat in on a focus group organized by Frank Luntz, the GOP pollster and message-shaper. Luntz was trying to find out, on behalf of the Republican Party establishment, what could shake Donald Trump’s..." more
Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:35:04 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Sam Hamm’s Plan for Robin, part 4:
J. L. said, "When we last left Sam Hamm’s penultimate screenplay for the 1989 Batman film, Batman was badly injured in the crash of his bat-shaped airplane, and Dick Grayson, dressed in his “ominous” red-and-green gymnast’s suit, was chasing the Joker..." more
Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:35:04 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled “Uncomfortable with how he came to have it”:
J. L. said, "From Eula Biss’s essay “White Debt” in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine:I read several hundred pages of Little House on the Prairie to my 5-year-old son one day when he was home sick from school. Near the end of the book, when the Ingalls..." more
Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:35:04 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Fierstein Adding “a Little More Sense” to Oz:
J. L. said, "Last week NBC broadcast a restaging of The Wiz that’s also slated for Broadway next year. It has a new book by Harvey Fierstein, who boasted about his improvements in an interview with BroadwayWorld:I've loved Wizard of Oz my whole life but have..." more
Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:35:04 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled The Feelings We Once Had:
J. L. said, "Of all the famous dramatic adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wiz in its original form is the most faithful. But of course the 1939 MGM movie is now more famous than either version. As I observed yesterday, that movie..." more
Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:35:04 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled An Unknown Comics Adventure in Oz:
J. L. said, "Last week as The Wiz was about to air on television, Mark Evanier unspooled his story about being hired to script an adaptation of the 1978 movie version for DC Comics.It’s most interesting, like a lot of the stories on Evanier’s website, for..." more
Friday, December 4, 2015 8:10:13 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled A Clanging Cymbal in Oklahoma:
J. L. said, "Everett Piper, President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, has been getting a lot of attention recently for his blog posting, “This Is Not a Day Care; It’s a University.” He wrote:I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel..." more
Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:24:09 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled William Pène du Bois’s Work Before It’s Gone:
J. L. said, "One of the children’s-book author-illustrators I really liked when I was young was William Pène du Bois. I got deep into his catalogue. The Three Policeman. Those koalas. Emil Bandicoot. Peter Graves before he became a square-jawed movie actor.I..." more
Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:40:07 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Oz Art to Wish for from Linda Medley:
J. L. said, "This is one of the most potent images from the Oz book mythos: Dorothy is wearing the Magic Belt and making a wish. Something’s gonna happen. Somebody’s going down. This illustration comes from Linda Medley, the comics artist best known for..." more
Sunday, November 29, 2015 6:59:53 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled We Are Dead Robins?:
J. L. said, "In DC’s current continuity, there have been four official Robins, and three of them have been dead for times ranging from a few minutes to maybe a year or so. (The second Tim Drake is the one who’s never died, even a little. Yet.)But for the..." more
Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:29:50 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Archie Across the Globe:
J. L. said, "This week the New York Times ran a profile of Ahmad Saeed, a bookseller in Islamabad, Pakistan. He inherited the business from his father this spring, and one of his first tasks as owner was accepting visits from “elderly men” who had come to..." more
Friday, November 27, 2015 6:51:49 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Turkey in the Straw Poll:
J. L. said, "This week Public Policy Polling released the results of a Thanksgiving survey (PDF download) which provided new evidence of OIP Derangement Syndrome among self-identified conservatives and Republicans.The questions were all Thanksgiving-themed, such..." more
Thursday, November 26, 2015 7:15:47 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled An Update to Parrotfish for This Historical Moment:
J. L. said, "Ellen Wittlinger’s article in The Horn Book about updating her novel Parrotfish (published in 2007) is testimony to changes in society and in language. Wittlinger’s novel is considered the first modern young adult novel with a transgender..." more
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 7:57:09 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled “It was gingham, with checks of white and blue”:
J. L. said, "Yesterday Bonhams sold a dress for $1,565,000. It was made for a Kansas farmgirl in the early 20th century.Now that sum’s only about half of the price of the Cowardly Lion costume Bonhams sold last year, but it’s still hight enough to place this..." more
Monday, November 23, 2015 4:07:09 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Giddap:
J. L. said, "I was impressed by Brooklyn artist Adrian Landon’s mechanical horse.Click on the picture to see a video. I was a little disappointed to read that it’s powered by a small electric motor rather than by the wind. I guess the Strandbeests have..." more
Sunday, November 22, 2015 8:27:02 AM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Sam Hamm’s Plan for Robin, part 3:
J. L. said, "Way back here, I was sharing excerpts of Sam Hamm’s early screenplay for the 1989 Batman movie, a version that featured Robin. Here’s more.At this point, Dick Grayson’s parents have been killed during their trapeze act—not by Boss Zucco ’s..." more
Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:01:09 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled The G-Man Retcon:
J. L. said, "Chris Giarrusso created his comic G-Man in bits and pieces: short stories, backup features, comic strips, half-parodies of other superhero sagas.As the Image Comics webpage for the first volume says, G-Man: Learning to Fly “Collects the origin of..." more
Friday, November 20, 2015 9:27:00 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled When Maps Came to Oz:
J. L. said, "The Oz stories that L. Frank Baum wrote up through 1914 shaped the maps that he and his publishing team included in that year’s novel, Tik-Tok of Oz. That stands to reason.Less obviously, those maps shaped the Oz stories that Baum told afterward...." more
Sunday, November 15, 2015 1:40:31 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled “A depth that other superhero comics didn’t have”:
J. L. said, "A few months back, as McFarland sent out the first copies of Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder, editor Kristen L. Geaman asked all of us contributors to describe what our essays were about.Here’s how I summed up my essay “Success in Stasis: Dick..." more
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 7:47:42 PM
J. L. Bell wrote a blog post titled Slice of Life:
J. L. said, "At the Hungry Tiger Talk blog, David Maxine has written about the one-of-a-kind Oz-related item that was part of our first meeting, when we were teenagers. This is my side of the story.Back in 1979, at the age of thirteen, I attended my first..." more