SUPERHERO FOR YOUR DAY

Tuesday, May 21st! In light of tumblr’s big bonanza!!!

arlenschumer — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:25:21 -0400

Tuesday, May 21st! In light of tumblr’s big bonanza!!!

Thursday, January 24th! A bunch of superheroes based on...

arlenschumer — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:31:07 -0500

Thursday, January 24th! A bunch of superheroes based on real-life new media superstars for OMMA magazine (Online Media & Marketing Agencies); that’s me with 2 of them at an awards dinner at the Marriott in times Square, where I presented a flash animation I designed and narrated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bTHjtZgbAI&list=UUwkw6QB6OFKcfxK17macOlQ&index=29

TONIGHT IN NEW YORK CITY I gotta be a superhero, ‘cause...

arlenschumer — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:38:39 -0400

TONIGHT IN NEW YORK CITY I gotta be a superhero, ‘cause I’ll be reading/discussing my AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS—and projecting it sequentially on the screen—at The NY COMICS & PICTURE-STORY SYMPOSIUM, 7-9pm (with another speaker first) at Parsons/The New School, 66 5th Avenue (at 13th Street), room 818, NYC. Free and open to the public! (pic from my panel at this summer’s San Diego Comicon) http://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/

Friday, September 14: now that football season has kicked in,...

arlenschumer — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:35:16 -0400

Friday, September 14: now that football season has kicked in, here’s my wraparound cover for the FIRST time the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl (‘08)!

A few weeks after 9/11, I heard a radio interview with the widow...

arlenschumer — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:29:07 -0400

A few weeks after 9/11, I heard a radio interview with the widow of Louis Nacke, one of the passengers on flight 93 who fought the hijackers; she said he had a Superman tattoo on his shoulder. So a few months later, I did this portrait of Nackeas Superman for the Society of Illustrators 911 Memorial Exhibition in Feb ‘02, contacted his widow and presented her with a framed blowup of the art, and read a speech of mine at the opening; for a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB0tQBkj_ds&list=UUwkw6QB6OFKcfxK17macOlQ&index=20&feature=plcp …and for text of the speech: http://www.arlenschumer.com/images/stories/history_pdfs/NACKE-art-Speech.pdf

Wednesday, August 22: back on the beam with my FIRST real...

arlenschumer — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:39:53 -0400

Wednesday, August 22: back on the beam with my FIRST real commercial illustration (an 8-page comic book-sized piece w/color cover & b&w interiors that I wrote & illustrated), and my first custom-designed superhero (Multiman was a mannequin with multiple heads and arms/legs that the client wanted me to turn into a superhero to encourage retailers to have fun with it vs. just draping it in clothes).

I’M the Superhero for your day TONITE! CLOBBERIN’ TIME...

arlenschumer — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:19:46 -0400

I’M the Superhero for your day TONITE!

CLOBBERIN’ TIME PODCAST TONITE/TUESDAY NIGHT: THE RETURN OF ARLEN!

Tue, August 21, 2012 9:00PM-11:00 PM EST
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/grenache/2012/08/22/clobberin-time-2012-tuesday-night-the-return-of-arlen#.UDLUb8PMT1U.facebook

Call in to speak with the host MIKE ALONZO: (347) 308-8251

TONIGHT WE PROUDLY WELCOME THE RETURN OF ARLEN SCHUMER (AUTHOR OF “THE SILVER AGE OF COMIC BOOK ART” AND “THE AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS” AMONGST MANY OTHER THINGS, OF COURSE) TO OUR PROUD LITTLE SHOW! ARLEN HAS AN ARTICLE IN THE LATEST ISSUE OF ALTER EGO MAGAZINE FROM TWOMORROWS (LOVE THAT MAG) ABOUT THE LEGENDARY DC COMICS EDITOR, MORT WEISINGER. AND WE HERE AT CT CANNOT WAIT TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT! AS LIFE LONG SUPERMAN FANS, THIS WILL BE A BIG THRILL FOR US! THE WEISINGER ERA IS WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AND FORMATIVE IN THE LIFE OF THE MAN OF TOMORROW AND ARLEN REALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF, SO, IT SHOULD BE A SILVER AGE EXTRAVAGANZA OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!!!

Before our podcast, If anyone wants to get a quick look at Arlen’s REQUIEM FOR WEISINGER, his 16-pg verbal/visual essay using the words of Weisinger & the images of Curt Swan, the cover story for the new August issue of Alter Ego, #112, it’s now available in hard copy & PDF form at: http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1031

Friday, August 10th: Athletes and superheroes go hand in hand!

arlenschumer — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:49:53 -0400

Friday, August 10th: Athletes and superheroes go hand in hand!

Wednesday, August 8th: ‘Nuff said?

arlenschumer — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:02:03 -0400

Wednesday, August 8th: ‘Nuff said?

AUGUST 4th: Did this for my friend Michael Dooley, back when he...

arlenschumer — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:32:00 -0400

AUGUST 4th: Did this for my friend Michael Dooley, back when he was a Creative Director at the LA Times—now Mike’s a Design History Professor at Loyola Marymount U in LA (where i lectured on “The Graphic Design of Comic Book Art” last year for him: http://teachevil.com/2011/09/27/schumer/); they were called “Jubileer” and “The Resumator”—and they ended up dressing actors as these characters and making public appearances (gotta dig up the photos i thought i had)!

AUGUST 3rd: Wrote/designed/illustrated this announcement card...

arlenschumer — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:21:00 -0400

AUGUST 3rd: Wrote/designed/illustrated this announcement card for International Paper’s move from NYC to Nashville!

AUGUST 3RD: My take on the classic Clark Kent-like shirt-reveal...

arlenschumer — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:51:53 -0400

AUGUST 3RD: My take on the classic Clark Kent-like shirt-reveal image, revealing whatever “message” one wants to “say” on the super-chest! This was for some magazine, I forget now; I’ve reused and repurposed this basic image many times, as it’s been an evergreen for me!

JULY 28th: I’m BACK, baby! Sorry, the San Diego Comicon...

arlenschumer — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:31:00 -0400

JULY 28th: I’m BACK, baby! Sorry, the San Diego Comicon and its followup (a trip to LA to line up my “Graphic Design of Comic Book Art” lecture for the LA chapter of the American institute of Graphic Arts later this Fall) waylaid me for a coupla weeks! Anyhoo, this superhero’s pretty self-explanatory!

July 10th: My Kirby THOR knockoff (of its 1970 source,...

arlenschumer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:09:00 -0400

July 10th: My Kirby THOR knockoff (of its 1970 source, Kirby’s last—and one of his best—THOR covers) for a self-promotional ad (back when I was repped as “Dynamic Duo Studio”; I’m now repped as “Arlen Schumer” by Donna Rosen: http://donnarosenartists.com/artists-gallery/arlen-schumer/)! It’s today’s homage to Kirby, because later this week at the San Diego Comic Convention, I’ll be presenting (from the press release):

JACK KIRBY AND THE AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS! Comic book historian Arlen Schumer (author, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) and Rand Hoppe (The Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center) present their theory that, just like a film’s director, not its screenwriter, is considered its true author (auteur in French), so should a comic book artist be considered the auteur of any comic book work done in collaboration with a writer (or a script in any verbal form) and therefore a de facto co-creator and co-author, with the credited writer, of that work. Joining them are editor/publisher John Morrow (The Jack Kirby Collector), comics scholar Charles Hatfield (the new Kirby bio Hand of Fire), and auteur film theorist Craig Fischer (Appalachian State).

Friday, July 13th,1:30-2:30, Room 26AB

July 9th: Kicking off San Diego Comicon week, I’ll be...

arlenschumer — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:08:48 -0400

July 9th: Kicking off San Diego Comicon week, I’ll be posting as many Jack Kirby superhero homages as I’ve done, like this one for Entertainment Weekly’s POWER issue a few years back (that’s my EW—the Entertainment Watcher, a la Kirby’s omniscient Watcher) up to Friday, when I’ll be presenting the following panel:

JACK KIRBY AND THE AUTEUR THEORY OF COMICS!

Comic book historian Arlen Schumer (author, The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) and Rand Hoppe (The Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center) present their theory that, just like a film’s director, not its screenwriter, is considered its true author (auteur in French), so should a comic book artist be considered the auteur of any comic book work done in collaboration with a writer (or a script in any verbal form) and therefore a de facto co-creator and co-author, with the credited writer, of that work. Joining them are editor/publisher John Morrow (The Jack Kirby Collector), comics scholar Charles Hatfield (the new Kirby bio Hand of Fire), and auteur film theorist Craig Fischer (Appalachian State).

Friday, July 13th,1:30-2:30, Room 26AB

And wait’ll you see the 16-pg verbal/visual version of the essay (

http://comicbookinterviews.com/2012/03/article-the-auteur-theory-of-comics/)

that’ll be in the new Jack Kirby Collector #59 (in b&w)—and Rand Hoppe of the online jack Kirby Museum (www.kirbymuseum.org) is printing it in full-color as a 16-pg standalone piece, on sale at SDCC, to benefit the JK Museum!

I’ll be “projecting” my Auteur Theory essay sequentially and reading the entire essay as a multimedia experience to open the panel! Must be SEEN to be BELIEVED! :)

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Thursday, July 5th: for the day AFTER the 4th, I’ll give...

arlenschumer — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:36:53 -0400

Thursday, July 5th: for the day AFTER the 4th, I’ll give you my capt america knockoff (requested by the client)!

Wednesday, July 4th: the best thing I could think of for 4th of...

arlenschumer — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:33:40 -0400

Wednesday, July 4th: the best thing I could think of for 4th of July!

Tuesday, July 3rd: One of my many iterations of a...

arlenschumer — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:29:39 -0400

Tuesday, July 3rd: One of my many iterations of a computer-superhero!

Monday, July 2: Poster for a St. Louis gaming arcade; the winged...

arlenschumer — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:12:10 -0400

Monday, July 2: Poster for a St. Louis gaming arcade; the winged character (and logo) was given to me, but I created all the rest!

Sunday, July 1st: Grolier wanted a vaguely hispanic-looking...

arlenschumer — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:56:36 -0400

Sunday, July 1st: Grolier wanted a vaguely hispanic-looking superhero—we white guys aren’t that good drawin’ other races and ethnicities, unlike, say, Neal Adams, who was a master at it!