DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love Week!

Yesterday DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love anthology came out. The book features stories about the Superman family of characters, each set in California during the summer. As previously discussed I wrote the Superboys story for the book “Who Do You Belong to?” drawn by the great Joey Vazquez. Today I am interviewing three other writers who had stories in the anthology.

Brandon Thomas who did a story about both Steels (John Henry and Natasha Irons) alongside artist Juni Ba. Meghan Fitzmartin who wrote the Lois Lane story drawn by the terrific Marcial Toledano Vargas (Meghan and I also did a signing for the book yesterday at Collector’s Paradise North Hollywood location, which was an incredible time, thanks to everyone who came out), and Christof Bogacs who wrote the Jimmy Olsen story for the book drawn by Jacoby Salcedo.

Let’s dive in to the interviews, starting off with Brandon Thomas!

Steel(s) Interview with Brandon Thomas

DAVE: Brandon!!! I’m so happy to be talking to you again, and to have a story alongside yours in this terrific anthology.

BRANDON: Yeah man, it’s awesome. I always loved working with you on the editorial side, and you had a great combination of push and praise, so I was disappointed we wouldn’t get to collaborate anymore, but if this is the closest we can get now, I’ll take it!

DAVE: I couldn’t agree more. You were someone I loved working with as an editor, you’re a tremendous writer, and now to be a writer alongside you on this book? It is an honor.

Speaking of which your story in this book, that you collaborated on with the brilliant artist Juni Ba, focuses on both characters called Steel, John Henry Irons and his niece Natasha, making a valiant effort at taking a vacation that is interrupted by a group of escaped space aliens.

I love both of these characters. They’re both integral parts of the DCU for me. When I started reading John Henry Irons was in all the comics I loved, specifically the Death and Return of Superman, and then Grant Morrison and Howard Porter’s JLA run as a prominent team member. Then, when I started going to the comic store every Wednesday, 52 was coming out, which had both John and Natasha in crucial roles. What’s your history with these characters, and when the editors reached out to you about this book, were you excited to dig into both Irons? 

BRANDON: Our history with the characters is pretty similar, as I first came into comics in the spring of 1992, which is around the time DC started the ramp up to Death of Superman. That and Knightfall were two of the massive events that made me fall deeply in love with comics, and I became a lifelong convert to both the characters and the creators that made all those fantastic stories. I was new to the game, so I didn’t have any idea that Superman would eventually come back to life, so as Death turned to Reign, which became Return, I was on the absolute edge of my seat for months. I honestly thought he could be dead for good, so I was 1000% invested in the idea of there being a true successor, and my favorite “potential” was always John Henry.  

From the beginning, he just had an amazing origin, and an amazing artist in Jon Bogdanove that brought him to life with such a unique look and feel amongst all the other “Triangle” books. Jon was already my favorite Superman artist, so giving him John Henry as his spotlight character seemed perfectly designed and personally targeted at me. I just ate it up, and I’ve been down with every version of John since then, extending all throughout his solo series, that notably featured a stretch written by Priest, and the vital role he had in Grant and Howard’s JLA.  

 Even more personally, I also got to use him and Natasha a tiny bit in the recent Black Lightning series I wrote, which is probably why I got the ask for this story in the first place. I love them both, and they’re truly “anytime, anyplace” characters for me. Is that why your story features Superboy? Can this all be traced back to that infamous black polybagged issue, and that specific time in comics?  

DAVE: The history we’ve both expressed having with the Steels, I definitely have with the Conner Kent Superboy character. For a long time I felt like I could graft major life moments on to his.

When he was created in the early 90s, I was very young, almost too young for comics, but when I was like three or four the first comic I ever picked up was Adventures of Superman #500 which features all of the Superman successor characters, but this was three years after the story had happened. Of those four characters I was taken with Steel, and I was definitely taken with Superboy, he was very 90s and very cool.

And then when I was late in elementary school, early in middle school, I started reading the Peter David & Todd Nauck Young Justice and Geoff Johns & Mike McKone Teen Titans runs that Superboy was a big part of and that stuff was everything to me, formative comics. And then right when I started High School? DC killed Superboy in Infinite Crisis. When I was wrapping up High School? He came back. And then in my college years and twenties the character had ups and downs like I did. And then writing this story I really grew an equal affection for Jon Kent.

Back to your story…I think there are many people, myself included, who have an Uncle or other relative they love dearly and also embarrass the hell out of them with every opportunity they get. Was it fun writing the family dynamic between this Uncle and Niece?

BRANDON: That was the whole thing for me, I just LOVE doing stuff like that. Their relationship and seeing them bouncing off each other was the entire appeal of the story. They are similar, but very different in all the important ways that create drama, tension, and laughs. Writing characters that are profoundly, almost inherently annoyed at everything around them is extremely on the nose for me, but I surrendered to that vibe and instinct for Natasha. She is just not with this mini “vacation” at all, at least initially, and I really tried to lean into the more comedic aspects of that, which is a different vibe for me, and it was liberating in a lot of ways.   

DAVE: When I opened up the story, I was delighted to see that the story was drawn by Juni Ba, who I think is one of the most gifted cartoonists and creators of his generation. A phenomenal storyteller that I have gotten to see do the work first hand, like you, and you guys are both awesome.

Were you a fan of Juni’s before you got paired together, and what was it like doing a DC Comic that looked like this? You have written many excellent DC Comics with a list of phenomenal artists, but this has a flavor to it that’s all its own.

BRANDON: This was a special opportunity for me because one of the first things that Juni had published was a variant cover for the third issue of my creator-owned title Excellence. I was thrilled when my editor suggested him for this story because I know he’s been extremely busy the last few years, writing and drawing his own amazing, award-winning comics, so him even being willing to take on a script by anyone else felt like its own event. No way was I turning that down, and he just killed it, like I knew he would.

But I know what you mean, this story definitely has a lighter touch and has much more humor than my usual stuff, which Juni heightened at every turn with those fun little details and flourishes. These are the type of things that reward you for slowing down a bit when you’re reading and making sure to fully take everything in, because chances are, Juni left behind a little something extra in the background to make the story even better.

DAVE: The amount that he has capable of putting into each panel while never compromising the overall storytelling of a page…it’s truly brilliant work. He is exceptionally talented.

You had a few DCU characters, Green Lantern (John Stewart) and Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), come into the story in a way that felt incredibly natural, and made the Steel characters feel even more essential to the universe. If you got to do another story with both Steels, what other DC characters would you like to see them team up with?

BRANDON: I don’t know if you’re aware, but I have an absolute obsession with Frankenstein. I love that character to death, I love that he has a base on Mars, I just can’t get enough of him. So the answer, at least for the foreseeable future, is gonna be Frankenstein. The Steels should go to Mars and have an adventure with Frankenstein.

For you the same question…what DC character are you strangely attached to that people might find surprising?

DAVE: Oh I remember your deep love of Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E, we share it, and when you did your last Outsiders story with me and Cian Tormey in Batman Urban Legends, we put Frank on the team for a few pages for that reason! 

At this point I don’t know if anyone would find any of the DC characters I love surprising after seeing my editorial resume and my work on the New History of the DCU but…the characters I’m itchiest to write who may not be the biggest ones in the universe? Dr. Fate (any incarnation), The Doom Patrol, Roy Harper (Arsenal, Speedy, Red Arrow, etc), and lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Android Hourman.

This is a big year for Superman, maybe the biggest I can remember. Did writing this story give you any further insight into why the Superman part of the DC mythology resonates so much with people or did it make you double-down on anything you had already felt about the Superman characters, the Steels in particular, going into the story?

BRANDON: I think the overwhelmingly positive response to the new movie shows that the world is crying out for some true heroism and genuine compassion. It feels like the bad guys are winning right now, and that everything we were taught as kids no longer has any meaning or value anymore. In that sense, Superman and his expansive family are needed now more than ever, and that’s the thing you have to keep in mind when doing stories like this. There should be life in every moment, if that makes any sense. And always a deep sense of humanity and connection, which are the things that matter most. 

Every character wearing that “S” becomes an extension of that sentiment, and it’s a stamp of approval that shows this is one of the best heroes there is. I know it was only ten pages, but that’s the overall vibe I wanted to reflect in my story-- saving people and doing the right thing is easy, it’s the other more interpersonal stuff that’s harder to manage. The natural instinct to help and sacrifice and serve other people is always bare minimum for these characters, and that’s really comforting and enduring in times like these.  

What about you, how satisfying was it for you to see that this character and his essence still matters to the “general public”? And because your story referenced it directly, will they ever be ready for an Electric Superman moment in an actual movie?  

DAVE: I love Superman so much, man. I was so excited for the movie and so happy when I loved it, and then even happier when people in my life, comic fans and not comic fans told me they loved it too.

I think you summed it up perfectly, I think we are all just desperate to know that kindness, decency, compassion…these are things that still matter, that still have a place in the world we are living in right now. That you can be unapologetically kind, use the gifts you have to help others (because I believe we all have gifts even if they aren’t heat vision), and try to do the right thing, even when it’s hard. I really am proud to be in this Superman anthology in this incredible year for Superman, and my greatest hope is I have more opportunity to work with Superman.

With that being said I don’t know if the regular world will EVER be ready for Electric Blue Superman. But…they’ve embraced Guy Gardner…so anything is possible.

Last question. If you had a high-tech suit of armor, would you add a cape to it or not?

 BRANDON: Cape, but it’s retractable.

Lois Lane Interview with Meghan Fitzmartin

DAVE: Meghan!!! Thank you so much for doing this.

MEGHAN: David!!! Thanks so much for having me!! It’s an honor!

DAVE: I am very excited, we have shared the credits block in many a comic book, but that was back when I was an editor at DC, you were one of my favorite writers to work with, and I am now even more proud to part of the same credits as a writer with you for DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love where you wrote the Lois Lane story for the book, drawn stunningly by Marcial Toledano Vargas.

How did you come to be a part of this project with this incredible name, and were you asked to write Lois or was she one of the characters you pitched for?

MEGHAN: It was so cool to share credit as writers!! And I was asked to write Lois! I had reached out to our mutual friend and editor Andrew Marino and he mentioned this killer anthology and asked if I’d like to write a story for it.

DAVE: Andrew Marino, the best, in many ways this Newsletter’s second main character. (I can’t wait to see if he reads that line.)

Were you a big Lois Lane fan coming into this, and did you have any particular incarnation from comics or other media that informed how you saw the character? There are just as many versions of her as there are takes on Superman, which speaks to her essentiality to the mythology.

 MEGHAN: Lois and I have had a tumultuous relationship over the years. I love her… when she is written well. But I would get annoyed when she was written as “annoying secondary character” – she’s Lois Lane! Winner of many Pulitzers! An incredible reporter! Some of the best versions of her have been Erica Durance in Smallville (I mean, PEAK LOIS LANE) and Gwenda Bond’s YA Lois Lane series. I love a Lois Lane who exists on her own merits, suffers no fools, and is inexplicably drawn to an enthusiastic, dorky hero.

DAVE: Man…thank you for giving Smallville the respect it deserves. The Superman cast has also given Smallville the love it deserves in the Superman canon and I too will shout out Erica Durance.

Your story follows Lois Lane coming to Los Angeles to speak on a True Crime Podcast that’s investigating a recent, high-profile murder. The Daily Planet ran a piece saying that the podcast was doing more harm to the case than good.

What I was struck by was…this is not a story saying that newspapers are good and podcasts are bad. You and I are both around the same age and grew up with plenty of digital media, and we’ve seen the good, bad, and ugly of it. Instead, very smartly, the story is about the quality of the legwork and reporting you put into whatever vehicle you are using for your reporting. Was that something you knew you were going to say from the outset, or was it a discovery while writing?

MEGHAN: I knew that, if I was going to write about Lois Lane, I was going to write about journalism. It’s an aspect of the character I really love and often gets overshadowed with all the heroic shenanigans going on. But good journalism is just as heroic. We’re in a moment in time where journalism is deeply misunderstood, and severely underfunded – unless it’s by a billionaire who has a certain agenda.

When I come up with ideas or when I’m asked to write a character, I try to put myself in the space of the character, to understand what they would want to say if I gave them the microphone. And it felt like Lois Lane had a lot to say on the topic.

DAVE: A lot like your portrayal of journalism, the pacing and plotting of the story are very confident and deliberate. You’ve written a good number of comics. This one feels among your best and again, most confidently told. Did you have any personal challenges or goals for yourself in writing this story?

MEGHAN: Other than time? I think I wrote this faster than any other story I’ve written! Which can be fun – when I force myself to push in on a story, I can get into a semi-manic space that pulls out some raw emotions. The more I write, the more I try to dig deeper into what matters to me, to find my anger to engage with it, which I wanted to do here. Lois’s anger on the topic of journalism certainly coincides with my own anger!

DAVE: This is a big year for Superman. We are doing this interview before the big movie hits, and you have also written the audiobook adaptation of not only my favorite Superman comic, but my favorite comic period, All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Between these two projects, have you gotten any new perspective on the Superman mythology, or has it made you double down on any of your beliefs about Superman, superheroes, or storytelling in general?

 MEGHAN: I definitely used to lean more in the “too much of a boy scout” opinion of Superman. I was always more interested in the tension behind the idea of “a god who is a man” rather than the idea of “a man who is a god” (because, frankly, I know too many folks who think they are the latter, and none of them are as nice as Clark Kent). But I think, the more I’ve engaged with Superman this year, in both All-Star Superman and in James Gunn’s movie, the more I realize that, to me, Superman isn’t great because he’s an idea – he’s great because of his characteristics. Kindness. Earnestness. Hope. Characteristics that are inherently human and divine, the driving force behind his actions.

But these characteristics have often been derided in the past 40 years – we’re coming out of an era where sarcasm and undercutting were perceived as more important than earnestness and enthusiasm. So, when I thought he was too much of a boy scout, I was likely reacting against the common writing practice of the time that I’ve never really enjoyed and has, thankfully, been shifting.

DAVE: You and Brandon Thomas both knocked this question out of the park, that was an outstanding answer. 

I want to talk about the artist you collaborated with on this story Marcial Toledano. WOW. I was knocked out by the art in this story, I was not familiar with Marcial before this. The character acting was excellent, the visual storytelling was strong, the environments were wonderfully executed, and there was a warmth to everything very appropriate for a story set in the Superman corner of the DCU.

What was it like working with Marcial? You’ve worked with some great artists before, and this felt like a really nice collaboration based on the quality of the final product. 

MEGHAN: Marcial! His art is GORGEOUS, it was such a delight to work with him. I feel like I’m always learning when it comes to working with artists, how to best collaborate and give them what they need from my scripts, but Marcial knocked it out of the park. His interpretation of my script was spot on and made things even better than I could have imagined. And it helped that we were very much aligned on Lois’ anger!

DAVE: Here’s my goofy question we’re going to end this one on. If you could have Lois Lane interview any other fictional character, who would it be?

MEGHAN: GOSH! So, one of my favorite writing exercises when working on original ideas is to have them be “interviewed”, it’s such a fun playground the pulls out so much you didn’t know about characters. What they’re trying to hide and what they desperately want to talk about… So, practically, it would be any of the projects I’m currently working on!!

But for the sake of this… I mean, the first thought would be Sherlock Holmes. I’m a massive Sherlock Holmes fan, but I think he’s … not always portrayed correctly. He’s an empath (not a sociopath, like a not-to-be-mentioned show claimed), he buries his emotions and feelings because they do not serve him in solving crimes. What I enjoy about Lois Lane’s dogged reporting and interviewing, is that she tends to get to the heart of issues – I think she’d dig into his empathy and his addiction. And I would love to read her profile on him.

Jimmy Olsen Interview with Christof Bogacs

DAVE: Christof! Thank you for doing this. Also, it’s so nice to meet you. The other two folks I am interviewing for this Newsletter, I have known for many years. You are a new person in my life. You were kind enough to reach out to me when DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love got announced, and it’s always nice to meet someone new, especially when they are also an awesome comic book writer!

CHRISTOF: Thanks so much dude! Honestly, means a lot coming from you, given your pedigree as a writer and former editor. 

Living in Australia (G’day!) and working in the US comics industry can be isolating at times. I always try and reach out to other folks in the industry and make connections. It’s cathartic to have more people to talk the craft and business of comics with.

DAVE: This anthology focuses on different members of the Superman cast and family of characters having adventures set in the summer in California. You and the wonderful artist Jacoby Salcedo did a story about Jimmy Olsen, alongside his Daily Planet co-worker and pal Clark Kent, attending a Hollywood party where he runs into his gorilla ex-wife, an actress named Bruna, who is now dating one of DC’s greatest villains, Gorilla Grodd.

I really enjoyed the story, and then I enjoyed it even more when I realized this was inspired by a real issue of Jimmy Olsen, specifically Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #98. How did you come to work on this anthology? Was Jimmy always the character you were going to focus on, and then had you already read this Jimmy Olsen comic the story sparked from, or did you read it after getting the assignment?

CHRISTOF: The wonderful Sabrina Futch reached out to me about the anthology, specifically wondering if I had any ideas involving Jimmy Olsen trying to get paparazzi shots of stars in Hollywood.

To be honest, outside of the incredible ‘Superman’s Pal: Jimmy Olsen’ series from Fraction and Lieber, I didn’t know a whole bunch about the character.  This made me want to go back to the start, to understand who the character is in his rawest form. That’s when I stumbled across the truly perplexing “Superman Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #98”. In the issue Jimmy and Clark go to Africa, and of course, Jimmy is forced to Marry a Gorilla. ‘Cause why not?

That old issue has a kind of infamy as not having aged well, in addition to just being extremely odd. At first, I just liked the challenge of trying to modernize and refence this issue… then I got to the part where Jimmy has quickie marriage to a gorilla – with apparently zero consequences.

I love the idea that characters in the DCU have been around for so long, and had SO MUCH happen to them, they forget about stuff. It makes for a great device for introducing the lesser-known parts of a character’s history to readers.

The fact that this event, and Jimmy’s Gorilla Ex, Bruna, are never mentioned ever again, also felt extremely unfair. I felt I kind of owed it to Bruna to make her a full person (well, gorilla) and not just a ridiculous dot point in Jimmy’s history.

DAVE: The story is very funny. I think writing and telling stories in general is a very vulnerable act, but telling a story where one of the top goals is to get people to laugh? Multiply that vulnerability times ten. What were some of the toughest things about writing this story, or what were some of the things that started coming quickly once you got into the groove of things?

CHRISTOF:  This is going to sound weird… but the hardest part about this story was how deeply personal it got. I’ll explain…

I got married when I was 21 and divorced before I was 30. I’m 34 for now, so It’s safe to say I am a radically different person to who I was then. A lot of ‘lore’ has happened to me since then.

At the time, divorce felt inevitable; for a long time, I shook responsibility. I treated it like it was just something that happened to me, and not something I was a part of.  Sound familiar?

You get to know this parallel up top. For me, being the dummy I am, I only consciously spotted this parallel in the middle of writing the script. It’s a hell of a thing to realize you are processing a divorce halfway through writing a conversation between Jimmy Olsen and a gorilla!

Life is weird like that sometimes.

In terms of the comedy aspect, for me cracking jokes is a survival strategy, often to the detriment of heavy conversations. That’s very much the point of it in this story. Jimmy would rather throw himself into comical situations and crack wise than stare down the gravity of his actions. You’ll notice that in the back-half of the story, after he and Bruna have their hard conversation, there’s pretty much no jokes. 

The air has been cleared, and with it, the need to defuse the tension with humor.

DAVE: That’s an incredibly personal answer. Thank you for having the vulnerability to share that with all of us, that means a great deal and it should show everyone how your life informs your stories and art in truly interesting ways.

This story feels like it could have been the next issue of the phenomenal Jimmy Olsen series that Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber did a few years back. You and Jacoby felt like you tapped into a similar vein of affection and humor for Jimmy and the DCU that they did, while very much telling your own story and showing off your own strengths as creators. Was that Jimmy Olsen series an influence on you, and are there any other humor-oriented comics that were an influence on you?  

CHRISTOF: PHEW! I cannot tell you what a relief it is to hear that. That’s exactly what Jacoby and I were going for.

Yeah, the Fraction and Lieber series was my main reference point for Jimmy. To me, that whole series is a rollicking thesis for why Jimmy matters, and why he endures as his own distinct character.

When I was writing the script I was hyper-aware that I was treading in a dangerously similar direction. I really wanted to make sure I wasn’t just doing a bad Fraction impression. I tried to really lean into my specific comedic strength: which are insane situations grounded in relatable feelings/ scenarios. I mean I think pretty much everyone can relate to running into an ex.

The other HUGE part of what makes our story its own is Jacoby. His art has the same clarity Lieber’s does, with an emphasis on nailing expressions. But and I hate to say this, he brings a youthful, Gen Z element and comedic sensibility (and background gags) which really makes the story feel like its own thing. Jacoby instantly understood that, at the end of the day, Jimmy’s just a silly lil guy!

In terms of other humor comics, Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye is up there for me, as is John Allison’s Giant Days. Theres also an incredible cartoonist on Instagram called Beetle Moses who does a lot of monkey jokes in his strips. I think that’s why I had apes on the brain going into this story.

DAVE: There was a while where Jimmy got a bad rap. The same way people make fun of Robin and say that character is goofy (in a bad way), I feel like there was a period where people avoided Jimmy because he made Superman stories less. I couldn’t disagree with that sentiment more. I love Jimmy, and I think he’s Superman’s Best Pal for good reasons. What do you think about Jimmy and his friendship with Superman? Why does Superman like Jimmy so much? Even in this story, Superman gives Jimmy a good amount of time to resolve the problem Jimmy has created before he intervenes.

CHRISTOF: The immediate question I realized I need to answer internally, so I could write him well was: “Why is this random kid Superman’s best friend?”.  I think that’s the first question anyone writing Jimmy must crack for themselves.

Without getting too into it, I arrived at the same conclusion that Fraction and Leiber came to: Jimmy brings levity and low-stakes to Clark’s otherwise serious and high-stakes life. In a world full of Gorilla Grodds, Brainiacs and countless Crises, Jimmy just Wants to have a good time.

Lois shows Superman the most admirable qualities of humanity; She’s principled, determined, incredibly ethical and thoughtful. Jimmy is kind of everything else. Life as a human is improbably irrational, inconveniently silly and frequently heart breaking. To me, Jimmy encapsulates all these things.

In that way Jimmy helps Clark connect to that specific aspect of his humanity.

Inversely, Superman is kind of a messiah figure In Jimmy’s life. He’s Jimmy’s better self and sees the inherent value Jimmy brings to the world, and his life. He also gives Jimmy the grace and patience Jimmy can’t always give himself. I mean, if Superman can cut you some slack, surely you can take it a little easier on yourself!

DAVE: Jacoby is an artist whom I discovered only in the last year or so, and he’s tremendously talented. Can you talk about what it was like to collaborate with him, and did you two know each other before this?

Like I mentioned before, telling a humorous story is incredibly vulnerable, and when you are building that story with another person, you need to have a great partner, and it feels like you guys had an incredible amount of chemistry. 

CHRISTOF: Jacoby is my guy. We met back in 2018 before either of us had a published credit to our name. Since then, he has exploded. And rightly so. There’s such a refreshing clarity to his line work and nobody nails a comedic beat like he does. There’s only a handful of artists that can really do that.

First and foremost, I consider Jacoby a mate, so I was so excited when he could join me for my DC debut. It really all felt serendipitous. 

While we haven’t collaborated on anything else in print, we have previously cooked up a comedy pitch together that had a similar comedic sensibility to Jimmy. So, I had a pretty good idea of how to write for him and what he brings comedically.

DAVE: It’s a very big year for Superman, and another reason it’s so cool that we got to be a part of this anthology. Do you want to tell more Jimmy stories in the future, and are there any other Superman characters (even the Big Blue Boy Scout himself) you’d like to write stories about?

CHRISTOF: Obviously I would do (almost) anything to have a crack at writing the Big Blue Boy Scout… but here’s the surprising thing: I would prefer to write him as I side character in another Jimmy thing. This story took me from being aware of Jimmy, to being in love with the guy. I also relate to his certain brand of chaos a lot.

Jimmy is everything I love in comics, and my new career goal is to, one day, pitch a Jimmy miniseries with Jacoby.  We haven’t had one since 2019 and I think now, more than ever, the world needs Jimmy’s levity and bombastic humanity.

 DAVE: I want to end on a bit of a goofy note. Jimmy Olsen, photographer. What do you think Jimmy Olsen’s eventual coffee table book that collects his Daily Planet photograph work would be called?

 CHRISTOF: ‘Wonders of the Fourth World: the important and incredibly life changing photography of Jimmy Olsen’.

Thanks to Brandon, Meghan, and Christof for letting me interview them for this week’s Newsletter.

The response to DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love yesterday truly took me off guard. So many people seemed to read it and have kind words to say about it. And then the signing that Meghan and I attended at Collector’s Paradise’s North Hollywood location? It was just outstanding. So many people came through. Friends, peers, and great readers. Yesterday was a truly special day and I thank you all for that.

Next week I will be going to FanExpo Boston with the great Chris Robinson. We will be at Artist Alley Table A602 from Friday-Sunday. Come bring your books for us to sign, and be prepared to get more books from us. So next week I’ll be posting something a little more light to the newsletter.

Until then?

Stay safe!

Thanks,

Dave Wielgosz