Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Author: Kendall Whitehouse
On October 24, 1938, playwright Howard E. Koch had less than a week to write the script for the next episode of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air. Producer John Houseman had given him the assignment: Dramatize H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds as a radio play. Koch knew he would have to … Continue reading Return to the Scene of the Martian Invasion
The past weekend the Jacob Javits Center hosted New York Comic Con, the East Coast's largest pop culture event run by the ReedPop division of Reed Elsevier. Early reports estimated this year's attendance at more than 130,000, putting the event on par with North America's premiere pop culture event, San Diego Comic-Con run by Comic-Con … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2013 and the Twin Peaks of Con Culture
Typography is shaped by the physical medium in which it is rendered. Clay tablets and styli gave rise to cuniform. The sinuous curves of serif typefaces were refined by carving letter shapes into stone. When typography entered the digital age, font designers faced the challenge representing font glyphs by an array of pixels. At high resolutions, … Continue reading Victorian Font Rasterization
For comic book fans who bemoan the encroaching influence of Hollywood on the major comic cons, there are a number of small, local events that carry on the spirit of the original comic book conventions. The Rotunda. This past Saturday, Locust Moon Comics, a Philadelphia-based comic book retailer, hosted the second annual Locust Moon Comics … Continue reading Locust Moon’s Comics-Focused Fest Expands
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