Thursday, June 19, 2003

The Living Legend

I'm under the weather today but I had to drag myself to the keyboard to post this: Today is the 88th birthday of Julius Schwartz. If you don't know who that is, you obviously know little about science fiction or comics — two fields in which he distinguished himself. He co-published the first s-f fanzine. He was an agent for many important s-f authors, including a young kid named Ray Bradbury. He then went into comics where he worked for DC for something like half a century, bringing us some of the best books to ever come out of that company, including Batman, Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League of America and Strange Adventures.

The entire Silver Age of Comics — the revitalization of the industry in the late fifties — flowed directly from his work, and I'm too ill to write much more than this. So I'm going to refer you to this link which goes to a five-part article I wrote a few years ago about Julie. And I'll wish him a happy birthday and hope for 88 more just like it.

• Posted at 5:17 PM · LINK

Recommended Reading

The New Republic has published this article about how the Iraq War was sold to the American people with a certain amount of lying.

• Posted at 11:15 AM · LINK