Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On...   Early Origins of  Early Comic Book Strips - with Bob Beerbohm!   At the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest, Friday October 4th!     TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3973 -     Earlier this month, at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest... There was a special panel titled: 'Early Origins of Early Comic Book Strips'.   The panel was written up in the Comic Fest program guide as follows:   12:15pm – 1:15pm: Early Origins of Early American Comic Book Strips- Early Origins of Early American Comic Strip Books Renowned comics historian Bob Beerbohm traces the origins of the comic book, from 1842 through 1933, focusing mainly on the pre-Yellow Kid period. His presentation – illustrated comics material you will see for the first time – will include the first comic book in America from 1842; the first ‘original’ home grown American comic book dating 1849; further examples of original USA comic strips and books from the 1850s tracing through to the advent of the Yellow Kid in the mid 1890s on to the explosion of full color comic books in the years before World War One when newspapers harnessed the power of comic strips to sell their product. Myriad formats competed back then as these were collected. And he will just scratch the surface during his hour-long presentation.   My youngest son, Vinnie, and I attended this panel. Bob went even further back in time than I had known about the early origins of comic books!   At the right are three photos that I took during the presentation.   This was a fine presentation by Bob, who conducted this program for the first time ever!   This is the direct link to the video on my YouTube Channel, which I encourage you to check out!      This Panel took place at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest in Mission Valley!      Robert (Bob) Beerbohm really got into the program's topic during the hour!     Just one of the many slides that Bob presented!     Of course Superman had to be presented!  Did you know that it originally was a 'comic strip'?!   Note: You can see more photos from this event at this Special Photo Album on my Facebook Fan Page!   Be sure to check out the Facebook Fan Page for the San Diego Comic Fest!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,973 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com!     

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Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On... One On One With Russ Heath! At the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest, Saturday October 5th!     TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3972 -     Earlier this month, at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest... There was a special panel titled: 'One On One With Russ Heath'.   The panel was written up in the Comic Fest paperwork as follows:   1:45pm – 2:45pm: One-on-One With Russ Heath (Michael Gross, interviewer)- Meet our comics guest of honor, Russ Heath, who has been drawing comics since 1947. He is perhaps best known among comic fans for his work for DC, particularly their “Big 5? war comics. Both fans and his fellow professional artists have admired the authenticity of his war-comics work, which was based on thorough research and meticulous attention to detail. While at DC he also co-created the fan favorites Haunted Tank and Sea Devils. Prior to his DC work, Russ drew comics in multiple genres—superheros, westerns, horror, and science fiction—for Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics. He also contributed art to EC’s Frontline Combat and Harvey Kurtzman’s Mad, and Kurtzman’s Little Annie Fanny strip for Playboy. Michael Gross will interview Russ. Panelists: Michael Gross, Russ Heath Room: Garden 2.   My youngest son, Vinnie, and I attended this informative panel, where I learned info on Russ Heath that I didn't know!   At the right are three photos that I took during the presentation.   There were many topics covered during this special panel. Moderator Michael Gross did a fine job interviewing Russ!   I have a video of this panel at my YouTube Channel, which I encourage you to check out!  I'm uploading it as this blog is being written!   My thanks to Russ Heath & Michael Gross for taking the time to do this panel.  It was a fun hour!    This Panel took place at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest in Mission Valley!      Michael Gross (left) and Russ Heath on the right during the panel!     Close up of Russ Heath during the panel!     Michael had come up with several good quetions for Russ to answer during the panel!   Note: You can see more photos from this event at this Special Photo Album on my Facebook Fan Page!   Be sure to check out the Facebook Fan Page for the San Diego Comic Fest!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,972 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com!     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On...   The Schanes Brothers - From Swap Meets to Pacific Comics!   At the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest, Saturday October 5th!     TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3971 -     Earlier this month, at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest... William (Bill) and Steve Schanes presented a panel on their history in the comic book industry.   The panel was written up in the Comic Fest paperwork as follows:   12:30pm – 1:30pm: The Schanes Brothers’ Story: From Swap Meets to Pacific Comics- Hear from Bill and Steve Schanes about their careers in comics, beginning with how they haunted swap meets and used book stories to purchase used comics by the lot; through the opening of Pacific Comics, San Diego’s first comic book stories; through the “other” Pacific Comics, an early independent publisher that flourished from 1981-1984 as an alternative to DC and Marvel. Panelists: Bill Schanes, Steve Schanes Room: Crescent.   My youngest son, Vinnie, and I attended this informative panel, where I learned info on the brothers I didn't know!   At the right are three photos that I took during the presentation.   There were many topics covered on the brothers from being teenagers to the present.   I have a few videos of this panel at my YouTube Channel, which I encourage you to check out!  I'm uploading them as this blog is being written!   My thanks to Bill & Steve Schanes for sharing their history in comics.  It was a great panel!      This Panel took place at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest in Mission Valley!      Steve Schanes (left) and William (Bill) Schanes on the right during the panel!     Steve Schanes was presented with a Planet El Cortez award at the end of the panel!     Steve Schanes stands with ex-employee Paul Tallerday at the end of the panel!   Note: You can see more photos from this event at this Special Photo Album on my Facebook Fan Page!   Be sure to check out the Facebook Fan Page for the San Diego Comic Fest!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,971 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com!     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions That...    Robert Aragon Is Appearing... October 19th at Frank & Son!    TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3970 -     Facebook Friend Robert Aragon brought this upcoming event to my attention!  I've posted about him before, (see this link).    Robert and others involved will be at Frank & Son in Walnut, California, on October 19th for the release of 'The Art of Robert Aragon Trading Cards'!   Here is the link to the particulars of the event.   Again, this event runs on Saturday, October 19th.  The signing runs from 1 pm to 5 pm. Check the list of celebrities who will be there!

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,970 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com!     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Met...   Barry Ira Geller At The 2013 San Diego Comic Fest!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3969 -     I'm posting this blog this morning after seeing Barry Ira Geller at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest.  Photo of Barry in the Dealers Room is shown above.

Barry also had a panel on Saturday, October 5th, which conflicted with another panel I wanted to see, so I missed Barry's.

However, after talking with him at the Dealers Room, I wanted to bring to your attention, his web site and what he is doing.

First, let me show you what his panel was about:

10:00am – 11:00am: Working with Jack Kirby, Larger than life: How Jack became my Design General and our work became the Real story behind the film Argo – Barry Ira Geller- Barry Ira Geller talks about the events that were made into the movie Argo, which won the best picture Oscar of 2012. Barry worked with Jack Kirby on designs for a science-fiction theme park based on Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light and wrote a screenplay based on the novel. The theme park didn’t get built and the movie didn’t get made, but Jack’s designs and Barry’s script were used by the CIA as the cover story to free U.S. hostages from Iran in 1980. Barry will tell us what really happened then, including things were weren’t accurate or fully described in Argo. Panelist: Barry Ira Geller Room: Garden 1.

Like I said, I missed this panel... But have read the web site that Barry is working on.  Plus I recently viewed the film, Argo, on a DVD rental.

Here is the link to LordOfLight.com, which I believe you will be fascinated with!

Plus here is a link to the San Diego Comic Fest page on Barry's appearance!

My thanks to Barry for sharing his time with me at the 2013 San Diego Comic Fest!

~ Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,969 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!   Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com!     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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