Podcast appearances and mentions of abraham riesman

John Pollock of POST Wrestling & Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics are joined by Abraham Riesman, author of the upcoming book Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America.They discuss the complexities of reporting on professional wrestling and Vince McMahon, the many scandals from the past year, contextualizing McMahon, media coverage of pro wrestling on a mainstream level, McMahon's departure and subsequent return & more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/wrestlenomics-radio2532/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

John Pollock of POST Wrestling & Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics are joined by Abraham Riesman, author of the upcoming book Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America.They discuss the complexities of reporting on professional wrestling and Vince McMahon, the many scandals from the past year, contextualizing McMahon, media coverage of pro wrestling on a mainstream level, McMahon's departure and subsequent return & more.Subscribe: https://postwrestling.com/subscribePatreon: http://postwrestlingcafe.comForum: https://forum.postwrestling.comDiscord: https://discord.com/invite/Q795HhRMerch: https://store.postwrestling.comTwitter/Facebook/Instagram/YouTube: @POSTwrestlingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Abraham Riesman, author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, finds it totally bonkers that reinstated WWE board member Vince McMahon is so well connected that his business was arguably a national security risk, yet here we are. In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, Riesman walks show co-host, and wrestling newbie, Andy Levy, through some historical context for WWE and McMahon, along with a look back at his relationship with Trump, his own daughter Stephanie, and what can be said regarding a potential deal to sell the business to Saudi Arabia. Plus! Andy and co-host Danielle Moodie listen to clips of more Republicans and right-wingers talking themselves in circles, including Tucker Carlson on his favorite topic: sexy M&Ms. And this time, one might be a (*whispers*) lesbian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reprint de la reseña que hicimos sobre "True Believer", la polémica biografía de Stan Lee por Abraham Riesman. con Damián Pérez y Mariano Cholakian Siempre con el aguante comiquero de @meridianacomics. Seguinos en Instagram en @labatea_podcast, y si sos fan del programa pedinos ingreso a Discord.

Pocas figuras surgidas de la cultura popular durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX han llegado a ser más célebres y queridas que Stan Lee. Como guionista y director editorial de Marvel Comics durante tres décadas, ganó fama como el supuesto creador de varios de los personajes de ficción más reconocibles, entrañables y rentables del mundo: Spiderman, Los Vengadores, La Patrulla-X, el Increíble Hulk, Los Cuatro Fantásticos, Pantera Negra… A partir de más de 150 entrevistas exclusivas y miles de páginas de documentos históricos el periodista Abraham Riesman analiza la figura de The Man de forma polémica en su libro Verdadero creyente: auge y caída de Stan Lee. Nosotros lo hemos leído y profundizamos en sus ¿novedozos? hallazgos y sus ¿tendenciosos? planteamientos. Casting: -Néstor Gascón -Leonardo Mirete -Luigi Benedicto -Fran Gómez -Rafael Marín

Episode #437! Another new episode! This week DL talks about the collected twelve issue maxi-series Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? In the Matt Fraction written Steve Lieber drawn comics we find out the answer. Next up, Scott tells us about True Believer The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. This biography by Abraham Riesman has received numerous positive reviews from newspapers, websites and industry insiders. We finish up this episode with talk of the new Doctor Strange movie. Check it out!

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/2njb *** Let me ask you a question: if you checked showtimes for movies in your area at any given moment over the past decade, which type of movie would you almost certainly see on the list? That's right, a superhero movie. But not just any superhero movie. A Marvel superhero movie. Marvel has produced and released around 30 films since 2007, grossing almost 30 billion dollars! But this empire of film didn't start as an empire. It all started with a man named Stan. Stan Lee. Or did it? Today we're joined by Abraham Riesman. Abraham is the author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. The book was published by Penguin Random House's Crown imprint and is nominated for both the Hugo and Eisner awards. As Neil Gaiman describes it, “True Believer is a biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit. It's an exploration of an often farcical tragedy: the life, afterlife, and death of a salesman and an editor who dreamed of being something more. It unwraps Stanley Lieber the man and Stan Lee the invention and the brand name, and manages to be scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking.” Abraham Riesman is a Providence-based journalist, writing primarily for New York magazine about arts and culture. Abraham's work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Vice, among other publications. We are super thrilled to be joined by Abraham today to talk about Stan Lee and all things Marvel. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

It had to happen! Superheroes have shaped our shared culture – both popular and political – but where did the idea of the “good superman” come from? How did idealism, power fantasy and radicalism merge so that an outsider generation of young (often Jewish) Americans could transform America?  Join Dorian and Ian on a senses-shattering odyssey that takes in socialist Superman, juvenile delinquents, the polyamorist roots of Wonder Woman, the Nazis (again), the great lost horror comics of the 50s, Stan Lee, how Churchill and FDR inspired Spider-Man… and which one of the X-Men was based on Menachem Begin.  –––––––– Superheroes: A Reading List From Ian: American Comics by Jeremy Dauber. Really comprehensive and full of love for the genre. But maybe a bit too comprehensive. Dauber covers absolute everything, so it can feel a bit too thinly spread. The Ten Cent Plague: The great comic book scare and how it changed America, by David Hajdu. Absolutely masterful retelling of the 50s moral outrage against comics. Impeccably researched, brilliantly written, and full of striking insights. Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison. If you were to read these three together, even as a non-comics fan, you would get a really good crash course in the different approaches taken to the genre since the 80s. From Dorian: Supergods by Grant Morrison. One of the all-time great comic-book writers has also the written the most entertaining and provocative history of the superhero. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. Essential reading for anyone interested in the people who built the Marvel universe. Howe has all the stories. I've given this book as a gift more than once. All Of The Marvels by Douglas Wolk. The Marvel Universe as explained by somebody who has read all 27,000 comic books. While Howe covers the creators, Wolk digs into the evolution of the characters and ideas. True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman. Juicy and unflinching biography of Mr Marvel. The Comic Book Heroes by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. Dated but interesting 1985 encyclopaedia of superheroes. The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore. New Yorker writer's eye-opening history of the love triangle that gave us Wonder Woman. –––––––– “Even by thinking about superheroes, you're thinking about politics. What is politics about but power and how you use it?” — Dorian –––––––– Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli is a fitting biography of the King in comics form. Last week, we discussed the Stan Lee biography written by Abraham Riesman, and it's only fitting that we dedicate an episode to Jack Kirby, the man whose boundless imagination continues to captivate our minds. Tom Scioli's book provides an excellent overview of Kirby's life, and we definitely recommend reading it for yourself. In this episode, we discuss what we knew about Kirby when we were kids, what he means to us now, and how comics will break your heart.

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, a heavily researched and all-encompassing biography written by Abraham Riesman, is an elucidating examination of one of the most significant figures in modern pop culture. Originally released a little over a year ago, the recent release of the paperback edition precipitated our discussion of the book. It's a book we think that anyone who's remotely interested in learning about Stan Lee should read. For those who don't know too much about Stan Lee, there may be things in here you'll wish you would have remained ignorant of. Join us as we discuss this prose biography! (Please note that if we said anything inaccurate or misleading during the course of our conversation in this episode, that is the fault of our own subpar recollection of what we read combined with poor note taking, not the fault of the material in Riesman's book.)

On the last Bonus Comments Section edition of Downlow.d until May, Joe Scott interviews writer Abraham Riesman (https://abrahamriesman.com/) to talk about his book "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee." Together, they discuss the movie Stan Lee produced with Harry Knowles, professional wrestling, the Geek Industrial Complex, and the importance of being king of the Scholastic Book Fair. Plus Joe and Kristina Bell also present another mailbag featuring questions, comments, and feedback from both listeners as well as the media. P.S. Downlow.d: The Rise And Fall of Harry Knowles and Ain't It Cool News will return with a BRAND NEW narrative episode on April 28th. Click here to purchase a copy of Abraham Riesman's book "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/downlowdpod/support

Starting off with the news this week, which includes some stuff I went pretty hard on! I've got an extended discussion on Poison Ivy's status quo (0:08:47), covering everything for her character from Heroes in Crisis to her new solo series starting in June. I'm also delighted to have a bit of information on a brand new project for the Monstress Team: Sana Takeda and Marjorie Liu (0:26:43). I have hilarious spoilers on the Morbius post-credits scenes (0:29:47), Nova news and speculation along with some character info (0:36:31), a new live-action Voltron project (0:42:05), what we know about the Gotham Knight's TV show (0:44:30), Behemoth's acquisition (0:49:45), updated Secret Invasion rumors (0:52:44), some rag time on Donny Cates (0:55:15), and the comics community reacts to the Oscars awards ceremony, 2022(0:58:09)!  With Moon Knight premiering first thing tomorrow, I obviously have a section on this upside dedicated to what to expect from the show (0:59:23), which I was happy to include details about Egyptian Deities and their place in the Marvel Universe (1:05:29), as I found a truly impressive Nerdist article on the topic (linked below). Monday the 28th had the Myth of Stan Lee virtual conversation with Abraham Riesman (1:22:16), who has studied Stan extensively to write his book TRUE BELIEVER: the rise and fall of Stan Lee. The conversation touched on Stan's traditional position within marvel, his hereditary Jewishness, the controversy of his credit taking over certain projects, and the sad situation he found himself all the way until his death. I took notes through the whole event, so there's a lot of really good information in there. While I'm still behind on a couple key comic series I follow, I have a good discussion of some excellent recent comics (1:40:10), with Bolero #3 definitely being my favorite of the bunch. Finally, last will be the weekly pull list, talking comics coming out the 30th of March (and DC today the 29th) 1:49:14. The next episode will be Monday the 4th of April, talking the regular news and comics but also Moon Knight! Which premiers tomorrow, Wednesday the 30th of March. Get hyped! I'll also have the April Yancy Street Special up by the 11th of the month, covering Illyana Rasputin (AKA Magik), and a bit of Madelyne Pryor, before their important new art in starting in late-April's New Mutant's #25! Till next time, thank you for listening, have a meditative New Moon this week, and get sweaty about your hobby of choice! MORBIUS Reddit Spoiler Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers/comments/tn9ona/morbius_postcredit_scenes_incontext_translated/ More on Egyptian Deities in Marvel Comics: https://nerdist.com/article/which-gods-from-egyptian-mythology-will-appear-in-moon-knight/ Comic Art Museum: https://www.cartoonart.org/ Jewish Community Library: https://jewishlearning.works/ Abraham Riesman (author, True Believer: the Rise and Fall of Stan Lee) website: https://abrahamriesman.com/ Website/Blog: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/ Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sensational-she-geek-live-from-yancy-street/id1550410718 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/45qGcYnP147aZBVIHC09lI?si=cb8b8c1a4f8c4ac7 Instagram: @annawiththecomics  Twitter: @savageshegeek  YouTube: Sensational She-Geek  Donation and All Other Links https://linktr.ee/sensationalshegeek

The fabulous and insightful Abraham Riesman returns to the show! He's here to talk apocalypse, creation, Torah trope, staying in our leyn, and to help us pick apart some rabbinic discourse. Check out his work at abrahamriesman.com! Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

On Episode 11 of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion & Rosie Knight pack up & start an Amazonian mind-control cult! In Previously On…(1:34) Jason goes solo to recap Eternals, the latest in the MCU, out in theaters now. In the Airlock (24:56) Jason and Rosie dive deep (deeeeep) into the theories and characters of Eternals. For the Omnibus (49:06), Jason chronicles the work-life of Eternals' creator Jack Kirby; in The Hive Mind (or rather, the Uni-Mind) (1:14:02), Jason is joined by comics journalist and author Abraham Riesman for a conversation around creators rights in the comics industry, especially involving Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. Finally, in The Endgame (1:26:21), Jason and Rosie play Assembly Required, picking their Eternal to go head-to-head in a randomly selected scenario (Hint: they'll be swiping left & right). Use #XRVEndgame & let us know what you think of their choices! Tune in every Wednesday and don't forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button!  Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmedia PLUGS: Abraham Riesman's Twitter & website! Check out Comic Book Workers United & show your support! The Listener's Guide for all things X-Ray Vision! Black Knight, Created by Roy Thomas & John Buscema, he's a Marvel hero whose debut was The Avengers #47 in December, 1967; Dane Whitman is in fact the third character to hold that title. Black Knight has been a member of The Avengers, The Defenders, & MI13, Marvel's equivalent of the famed real life MI6. Blade, Created by Marv Wolfman & Gene Colan, this half-man, half-vampire (aka dhampir)'s first appearance was 1973's The Tomb of Dracula #10. Wesley Snipes played the character in a trio of films that came out from 1998 through 2004 (the second was directed & written by a budding Guillermo del Toro and available on HBOMax). She-Hulk's Past with Eros (aka Starfox), Featured in She-Hulk Vol 2, #6-7, from 2006, written by Dan Slott and art by Will Conrad; the arc ultimately doesn't really resolve the fate of Eros after his escape from court, so it's hypothetically possible that the character is still wanted for his crimes on Earth. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/xrayvision..  For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My friend Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, comes on the show to talk X-Men, origins of Magneto's Jewishness, collective storytelling, apocalypse and queer allegories. Visit our website to ask us questions at xaihowareyou.com and call or Text the Talmud Hotline at 401-484-1619 and leave us a voicemail! Support us on patreon at patreon.com/xaihowareyou. Follow us on twitter @xaihowareyou and @miss_figured. Music by Ben Schreiber.

August 8th, 2021, The Fantastic Four celebrated their 60th Anniversary, and we're pulling out the red carpet and setting a birthday cake ablaze in their honor. And we're not partying alone; we've invited some of our bestest comic book creator friends over to the Love Nest to help champion Marvel's First Family.  On this week's show, we have Fantastic Four: Grand Design cartoonist Tom Scioli (back on the show), Marvel's Executive Editor and Senior Vice President, Tom Brevoort, Stan and Jack comic creator Pete Doree, superstar writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson, and Extreme Carnage scribe Clay McLeod Chapman. We love the Fantastic Four, but it was a journey to reach that love. And it was a privilege to discuss Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's milestone comic book with these creators, and they helped us better appreciate the FF's role within the industry and the culture. Send our guests some love by tracking down their work via their social media accounts You can find Tom Brevoort on Twitter HERE, on Instagram HERE, and over on his website HERE. Follow Clay McLeod Chapman on Twitter HERE, on Instagram HERE, and visit his website HERE. Follow Pete Doree on Twitter HERE, on Instagram HERE, and visit his website HERE. Daniel Warren Johnson is located on Twitter HERE, on Instagram HERE, and on his website HERE. And make sure to follow Tom Scioli on Twitter HERE, on Instagram HERE, and on Patreon HERE. Our CBCC Sue & Reed episodes: 1 - The Fantastic Four #1 - 6  2 - The Fantastic Four Wedding  3 - Fantastic Four: Civil War  4 - Fantastic Four: Marvel NOW!  Our two previous Fantastic Four related interviews: 1 - Tom Scioli on Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics  2 - Abraham Riesman on True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee  Finally, follow the podcast on Facebook, on Instagram, and Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren. Send us your Words of Affirmation by leaving us a 5-Star Review on Apple Podcasts. SUPPORT THE PODCAST BY JOINING OUR PATREON COMMUNITY. Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.

Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we're proud to present another Booksplode! This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick take a look at... True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman! What's a Booksplode? It's a bi-monthly special edition show in which we take a look at a single graphic novel or collected edition, something we really just don't have time to do on the regular show. In this case it's our first prose book! Running Time: 00:46:00 Music: "I Believe" Chris Isaak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abandon most of your hope, all ye who enter here.  James D. takes us to two dystopian near futures with Children of Men and The Rover (2014)! Sources: Children of Men (2006) "The Vulture Transcript: Alfonso Cuaron on Children of Men" by Abraham Riesman, Vulture "Children of Men: 8 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Alfonso Cuaron's Movie" by Michael Balderston, CinemaBlend "Adam Ruins Everything - How the Fine Art Market is a Scam", TruTV   The Rover (2014) "Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce Star in The Rover - First Look" by Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly "Robert Pattinson & Guy Pearce: The Rover Interview", Anne Mavity "Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson Interview 2014: Actors Struggle for Survival in The Rover", ABC News "Robert Pattinson & Guy Pearce Exclusive Interview - The Rover", HeyUGuys   Where to Find James D.: Twitter - @jamesd7004 Monster Kid Productions Facebook Youtube Watch Maniac Nun on a Mission to Kill Leo Fountaine (short film)   Fountaine and the Vengeful Nun Who Wouldn't Die Twitter - @maniac_nun   The Film Hacks Twitter - @hacks_film Listen to the podcast - thefilmhacks.com

How much Stan can you stand? That’s the question Emmet and Tim are asking as we review an undetermined number of Stan Lee biographies! In episode 692, we covered Spurgeon and Raphael’s 2004 entry; this time, it’s the most recent tome, True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman. While some … Continue reading #694 “True Believer”

Who created Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four? That seems like a simple question, but the super messy answers—and the difficulty in determining them—may astonish you! Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, joins Jesse Taylor and Marc Faletti for the first-ever interview on the Marvelous TV Club. Buckle up for a trip through Marvel's past, and prepare to challenge the way we give credit for the creation of our favorite Marvel characters.

The Fantastic Four! The World's Greatest Comic Magazine! And are Reed Richards and Sue Storm the world's greatest comic book couple? Well, we'll just have to see about that. But, it is definitely true that we've wanted to cover these two cosmic crusaders for quite some time, and we're incredibly excited to bring them into session with this week's episode. The Marvel Comics Universe begins with these first six issues. It's not only comic book history; it's pop culture history. Every comic book fan should put their eyes upon these stories, and don't worry; these comics are not your veggies. It's all dessert, baby! To help us understand Reed and Sue's romance, we're returning to Gretchen  Rubin and using her book, "The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How To Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too). If you want to decipher your own Tendency, you can do so by taking Rubin's quiz HERE. Issues covered in this episode: "The Fantastic Four" Vol. 1 issues 1 - 6 penciled & plotted by Jack Kirby, written by Stan Lee, inked by George Klein, Christopher Rule, Sol Brodsky, Joe Sinnott, & Dick Ayers, colored by Stan Goldberg, and lettered by Artie Simek & John Duffy. Listen to our FREE Patreon episode celebrating Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer by clicking HERE. Join our Patreon & listen to Brad take The Four Tendencies quiz for the first time by clicking HERE. Listen to our interview with Jack Kirby biographer Tom Scioli by clicking HERE. Listen to our interview with Stan Lee biographer Abraham Riesman by clicking HERE. Be sure to follow the podcast on Instagram and Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren. Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.

Episode Notes Abraham Riesman, the author of "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee," joins Douglas Wolk to discuss 1964's Fantastic Four Annual #2, the first appearance of Latveria, and the origin of Doctor Doom. Topics include what we know and don't know about Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's working relationship at this point, Lee's unusual interpretation of "diplomatic immunity," the open question of when Doom's mother came into the narrative, and Kirby's uncharacteristically reserved evaluation of what he contributed to Doom's creation.

U.S. Intelligence officials released their “Global Trends” report and its pretty bleak. As the Washington Post headline reads: “Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies.” Biden’s infrastructure bill is pretty awesome.  A new study by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, found that most of the January insurrectionists came from counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population. That is, most didn’t come from deep read counties; they came from places like Bucks County, PA that is experiencing a significant shift in demographics. The study also found that those involved in the insurrection are older and more professional than right-wing groups studies in the past; they were all, however, 95% white and 85% male. The lead researcher, political scientist Robert Pape, suggests that 90% of the insurrectionists are still in the process of congealing into a mass movement that is willing to put “violence at its core.” The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, helped pave the way for Democrats to use budget reconciliation again this fiscal year to pass Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan. She stated that the Section 304 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 allows for the Senate to use reconciliation more than once a fiscal year, because it says "the two Houses may adopt a concurrent resolution on the budget which revises or reaffirms the concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year most recently agreed to."  Just to balance the equation apparently, Joe Manchin flip-flops, saying that there is no way he would vote to get rid of or weaken the filibuster.  Biden’s new Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, calls for a single minimum global corporate tax.  Biden announced on Thursday moves to end gun-maker liability protections as part of a series of executive actions in response to gun violence.  Things just get worse and worse for Trump-loving, and all-around creepy, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz.  The New York Times reported that Gaetz went pardon shopping in the final weeks of Trump’s term.  Apparently he asked Trump for an unconditional pardon for any crimes he may or may not have committed. One out of every three UK teachers plans to quit in the next 5 years because of rapidly increasing workload and growing disrespect for teachers. That’s according to the results of a survey that the National Education Union asked of 10,000 members.  Congratulations to Kadida Kenner from the Pennsylvania Budget Policy Center & We The People for accepting her new role as Executive Director at The New Pennsylvania Project.  Kadida will be fighting to protect voting rights right here in Pennsylvania as Republicans continue to push Trump’s Big Lie in 2020 and ramp up their nationwide attacks on voting rights. Speaking of the attacks on voting rights by Pennsylvania Republicans, Republicans Daryl Metcalfe, Seth Grove, Cris Dush and dozens of other conservative republicans were spotted having dinner with Chris Kobach Tuesday evening.  Kobach was the Secretary of State in Kansas and helped weaponize Trump’s unfounded election fraud claims in 2016. If that’s not bad enough, Seth Grove is wrapping up his show hearings on the 2020 elections and has started inviting Koch aligned front groups to push their anti-voter agenda at the latest House State Government Committee hearings.  Grove had members from the Foundation for Government Accountability and the Heritage Foundation’s Honest Elections Project speak at his most recent hearings. In their 2021 Gerrymandering Threat Index, Represent.us has moved Pennsylvania into the moderate risk category as PA Republicans gear up their voting repression machine.  Get ready Pennsylvania, because the push to restrict rights at the ballot box is coming our way. Rep. Scott Perry struggles with using Venn diagrams. Did you know that if you offer people a discount to shop at your store you just might be part of the plan of microchipped lizard-men to eat your liberties? It could happen. Well, and it kind of did happen to Donna Gouldery, a owner of Allora Gifts & Home Decor in Doylestown, PA. The crazy story is highlighted in Cyril Mychalejko’s latest column, “Hysterical social media mob targets Doylestown business woman.” We’ll get into it.  COVID cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in PA and NJ even as vaccines roll out.  The University of Pittsburgh is has ordered students to shelter in place as coronavirus cases spike again.  70% of PASSHE faculty oppose mergers.  NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survived its first several days detached from the Perseverance rover. Yesterday, the little helicopter unlocked its rotors and will go through a series of tests before attempting the first-ever powered flight on the Red Planet sometime after Sunday, April 11. .  It’s official, I am signed up for the 2021 Mars Society Virtual Convention. Yes, Raging Chicken will be attending this year’s Mars Society Convention from October 14-17. brings together prominent scientists, policymakers, entrepreneurs and space advocates to discuss the significance of the latest scientific discoveries, technological advances and political-economic-social developments that could affect plans for the human exploration and settlement of Mars. The Mars Society was founded in 1998 by Robert Zubrin, who Motherboard writer Abraham Riesman calls, the “Right-Wing Mars Guru.” Down the rabbit hole I go. 

Abraham Riesman on his new book, True Believer: The Rise And Fall Of Stan Lee.

Kris and Dave sit down with journalist Abraham Riesman and talk about his new book True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. Plus, Kris and Dave discuss video game news and recommend some new nerdy content. Nerd News Microsoft completes purchase of Bethesda New TMNT video game announced Byword Big Talk True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee Nerd Commendations Kirby's Adventure via Nintendo Switch Online IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Everybody knows Stan Lee, but nobody knows Stan Lee— except people like critically-acclaimed writer Abraham Riesman, who has written a new book about the late Marvel Comics founder. Riesman joins the Bagels to discuss  "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee," which shatters fans' assumptions about the life of the man who started out as Stanley Lieber.    Riesman also provides background on comic book fandom and culture, questions Jewish characters in Marvel universe and asks if we go too far in looking for Jewish themes and identity in comic book superheroes and their stories. Later, Esther talks trauma as a crucible for storytelling and Erin reveals a surprising turn in her "WandaVision" fandom.    Relavent Links: Find his book here. Follow Riesman on Twitter @abrahamjoseph Check out his latest WandaVision Recaps here!   Follow Erin, Esther and The Bagel Report on Twitter! 

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Today we're joined by the writer of the recent Stan Lee biography "The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee" as he talks about Stan Lee's life and story. Riesman has written for many magazines such as the New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and more! Follow us on social media @themarvelists

Aaron Adams & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about how a scene that was cut from “Avengers: Endgame” helped inspire the creation of “WandaVision.” They also discuss Abraham Riesman’s “True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Sonny on this week’s episode of The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood is Abraham Riesman, the author of the excellent new biography True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. We discuss the long-running fight for credit between Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as well as Lee’s greatest contribution to the world: the character of Stan Lee, a catchphrase-spouting mascot whose ability to connect with fans and create a sense of community helped shape the idea of fandom to this day. For more on Riesman and his book, make sure to check out his website, abrahamriesman.com.

Aaron Adams & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about how a scene that was cut from “Avengers: Endgame” helped inspire the creation of “WandaVision.” They also discuss Abraham Riesman’s “True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A special Thursday episode brings Kyle and Robby interviewing the incredibly talented author, Abraham Riesman, on his new book "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee."

On this week’s live broadcast, we’re welcoming back guest Abraham Riesman to talk about his new book, “True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee”! SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, ITUNES, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON. This week’s episode is sponsored […] The post Comic Book Club: Abraham Riesman, “True Believer” appeared first on Comic Book Club.

Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee so inspired a generation of readers and writers, a multiplicity of biographies was inevitable after his death in 2018.On the occasion of the publication of Oak Park, Ill., native Abraham Riesman’s entry, True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, the Chicago Public Square Podcast invited Riesman and A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee author Danny Fingeroth to join a conversation about Lee’s life and legacy.Listen here, on your favorite podcast player, via Spotify and Pandora, on Amazon’s Alexa-powered devices* or on iTunes (“Hey, Siri! Play Chicago Public Square Podcasts”). Prefer video? See the whole unedited session as recorded via Zoom here. Footnotes:■ Contrary to a statement during the Zoom session (but edited out of the podcast), Meyerson interviewed Stan Lee just twice. You can hear those encounters here and here. But he also witnessed Lee’s first Chicago comics convention appearance, which you can read about here; and his final public Chicago appearance, which you can hear here.■ Enjoying these podcasts? Keep them coming by joining The Legion of Chicago Public Squarians.■ And consider subscribing—free—to the daily Chicago Public Square email newsletter.*Even if you don’t have an Alexa speaker, you can turn iOS and Android phones into Alexa devices for free.

Drew and Dan talk to special guest Abraham Riesman about 'True Believer,' his new biography of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. Order your copy of 'True Believer' at abrahamriesman.com or wherever books are sold. For more of Riesman's writing on arts and culture, you can follow him on Twitter (@abrahamjoseph) and read his work in 'New York' magazine. Opening and closing song, "Surprising Power," from Art of Escapism's album 'All or Nothing.'

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Abraham Riesman, the author of the electric new book True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, out last week. It's another podcast Sunday edition. Let me know what you think of these.I have been waiting for this book for ages, I'm a huge fan of Abe's and the topic could not be more prescient. We talk about the actual role Lee played in making the characters, how Stan Lee was ahead of his time when it came to making a living as a proto-influencer, and the undercovered, complex and unsavory period from the 1970s through his death. It's a complicated portrait of a complicated guy, and is deeply reported at every stage.True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee can be found wherever books are sold, and Riesman can be found on his website and on Twitter. This interview has been condensed and edited.The book is out, you've been working on this for quite a while at this point. It was delayed back in September. It's all about one of these people who have become a very central figure in modern American pop culture, Stan Lee. What got you interested in him as an individual?Oh, geez, what got me interested in him? I guess you have to go a long ways back for the beginnings of it in that I grew up reading comics and being interested in Marvel. I think I first became aware of Stan Lee when I was very young, watching the now mostly forgotten Marvel Action Hour cartoon show. He used to introduce the animated segments there. And basically he remained this figure in the background of my life, in the way that he's been in the background of the lives of countless people who have engaged with Marvel superhero products. And long story short in 2015, I started writing a profile of Stan for my then place of employment, New York Magazine, and it came out in 2016. Then in 2018, when Stan passed away, an editor at Penguin Random House who had read the 2016 profile approached me about writing a full biography, and that's where it began.He's interesting because he had a fairly seminal role at a company that has become incredibly central to American pop culture, but he himself has appeared in a lot of these entities. How did you get at the question of who is Stan Lee in terms of both the public and private and the individual person?Well, it's a big question, isn't it? I tried to base it on as much evidentiary stuff as I could, as opposed to surmise and opinion. So, I did more than 150 interviews. I went through thousands and thousands of pages of his personal and professional documents, which were mostly ones that I got from the University of Wyoming, their American Heritage Center, which is where Stan's papers and other archival materials are stored — long story about why it's in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. But, yeah, in addition to reading through documents, I also watched a bunch of home movies. There was this Holy Grail moment of the last day I was at the archives — I only had five days there — I found this box among the almost 200 boxes of materials there that was just a bunch of unlabeled home movies.I started popping them in the little VCR they had at the reading room, and was just blown away by the fact that right under my nose there had been all this stuff that the Lee family either advertently or inadvertently had left behind for posterity. So, you take that, you take the documentation, you take the interviews, you take the comics, you just throw everything in a blender and try to sort it out in your brain and then put it on paper. There's no magic recipe to it. You just have to engage with the source material and then see if you can craft something from it.It's fascinating because this is an individual around whom a couple of major corporations have attempted to construct a mythology.A lot of your reporting, whether it was in that feature from a few years back or in the book itself, it's not poking holes, but really saying a lot of what we held up to be the myth of Stan Lee, is it necessarily as black and white as it might appear. Do you want to go into some of what you found?There's a lot that Stan was less than truthful about, a lot of things he just outright lied about and then other things where there were sins of omission or misdirection. And the big thing that matters when it comes to talking about Stan's dissembling — there's a lot of things that matter with that — but the big one, as you mentioned, is the corporate claim on Stan and the characters that Stan was credited with creating. What my research turned up was there's literally no evidence Stan created any of those characters.There's not?No, there's none. There's nothing. There's no presentation boards. There's no diary entries. There's no contemporaneous accounts from friends saying Stan was working on this and told me about it and then he created it. Nothing. It was a fly by night industry, so there wasn't a whole lot of documentation of anything to be fair, but there's significant evidence — it doesn't prove it, I don't have a smoking gun — but there's significant evidence or at least testimony that goes against Stan's word and says that one of his main collaborators, Jack Kirby, was the guy who came up with almost all of those characters.Jack was also an artist. So he, according to him and his defenders, created the characters from whole cloth, whereas Stan at best can only claim to have come up with the idea. He was not an artist, so he didn't come with the visual look of these characters. It's a sticky thing because, again, you're not going to find a smoking gun. There really was just terrible documentation and a large lack of professionalism at comics companies circa the 1960s.These were not the glossy corporate entities that they are now. Marvel was not a Disney subsidiary as it is now back in 1961. So, we don't really know who created those characters, but what I wanted to do in the book was just say the fact, which is we don't know that it was Stan. We've just taken it for granted that Stan was presented to us factually as the progenitor of these characters, usually at best you'll get people saying, “Jack was the co-creator, Jack did it with Stan.” Now that may be the case, but we don't know that. We can't say that with any certainty. It may well be that Jack was the only one who was actually coming up with these characters and that he was doing them from whole cloth. That's not even getting into the stuff that Stan more transparently lied about when it comes to crediting his collaborators for the actual comics they made. It's a long, complicated thing, but basically the process by which the classic Marvel stories were created was not "Stan sits down and writes a script, and then hands the script to the artists to draw." Stan was not writing scripts. He was having brief conversations with the artists who would then go home and write the story. So, really they were writer-artists.They would go home and just draw out the entirety of the narrative that they were working on in the comic, add in little notes sometimes in the margins about what dialogue should go in there, and then they would hand this completed story, or more or less completed story, to Stan who would then add in dialogue and narration. Now, the dialogue and narration were very important, I don't want to discount that, and he also wrote the letters columns in the back, which were enormously influential and helped create the Marvel phenomenon. But he wasn't crediting his artists as co-writers, which they were. You can even argue that they were the primary writers since they were the ones who were actually coming up with the structure of the narratives. Anyway, I could go on and on like this, but that's just one area in which I wanted to cast some light on the disputes and force people to live with the ambiguity, which no one likes, of not knowing who actually is responsible for these things that are so enormously popular and prominent.We always talk about people who were ahead of their time, and oftentimes that's indicated as a very unambiguously positive statement, but the idea of a person who is a brand creator, that seems fairly prescient for a couple of reasons. It's not the first time that, again, not necessarily negatively, not necessarily positively, somebody has been able to float to vast cultural influence through basically brand definition and steering.You're exactly right. Stan was, in a time when we didn't talk about branding the way we talk about it now or being an influencer or any number of pop-y terms that we use to describe the present day media landscape, he really was an influencer and a brand himself. His personal brand and the brand of Marvel were intimately intertwined, and he was so good at promotion. There are very few people in the history of American life who have sold better and at a higher profile than Stan Lee, and that's huge. Jack may have been the person coming up with the characters, but Jack was a terrible salesman in terms of public relations and advertising and slogans and all of that. That was not something he was good at or enjoyed, whereas Stan, that was what he lived for.He loved being a raconteur. He loved creating a fan base. He loved all of that. And without him, I don't think we would have the Marvel phenomenon, even if the creative material had been in there, it wouldn't have become this — again, to use a modern term to describe something not so modern — it wouldn't have gone viral in the way that it did. He was ahead of his time. I find myself, as I promote this book, often looking in the mirror and thinking, well, I've become my subject. There's so much in just the modern publishing landscape that requires you to be a Stan Lee if you want to succeed. It's all about individual hustle and getting your name out there. I wasn't alive in the ‘60s, but I don't presume these things were talked about in quite the same way that they are now, and they were skills that Stan had that, if anything, in the ‘60s were maligned.That was back when the biggest object of joking that you could put into a satirical pop culture thing was about ad men. That was one of the reasons that Mad Men was the show that it was, because it was set during a time when being in advertising was in a lot of ways like having a tech gig now in that there was good money to be made, it was very much a hotly discussed industry, it was all based on bluster, et cetera, et cetera. And at the time you could really make fun of somebody for being a big promoter and advertiser, but Stan was really good at it! Now it's something we look at with a great deal of admiration, or at least grudging admiration when people can pull that off. And Stan really did.Partially because they're both owned by Disney now, but you have a guy like Jim Henson who was very much in the trenches of making the art that he was promoting pretty consistently, and then Stan really was a little bit more hands-off than I think people tend to think when it comes to developing characters.For the most part. Again, we don't know because we can't go back in time and figure out exactly who said what inside a closed room. We'll never know for certain, but even when it comes to creating individual comics as opposed to just creating the characters, yeah, he was relatively hands-off when it came to an individual comic, because he wasn't writing a full script. He was not being the auteur of these comics. He was saying, “okay, here's some ideas,” and then people would go and run with them. And a lot of the time it wasn't even, "here's some ideas, go run with," it was the writer-artists would come to him and say, “we're going to do this.” Stan would maybe have some tweaks, but would largely just say, “okay.” Then the writer-artists would go home and do that. So, it's not exactly like you say. It's not like Jim Henson going and tinkering away with his characters, it's much more of an ambiguous and distant creative role that he had.Over the course of Marvel's history, obviously, the company had I think some of the most tumultuous possible business situations through the ‘80s, ‘90s and 2000s. What of Stan Lee's later life and pops culture ascendance do you track in the book?All of it. There's nothing that was off-limits for this book. It's the full arc of his life to the best of my ability. I tried to keep it short, it's not a Robert Caro, but I talk a lot about what happened later because I think that that's the most interesting stuff to be honest. I think we're pretty well-covered — not as well as we should be — but prior to the release of my book, we were pretty well covered in terms of stories about Stan's life and work in the ‘60s. People have written about that stuff pretty extensively. Now, I have things to add to the ‘60s narrative that hadn't been there before, but comparatively, not that much, because it's been so heavily excavated. But when it comes to things that happened to Stan from 1971 and onward, basically no one had written in-depth about any of that.There've been some attempts at it. The comics journalist Tom Spurgeon and his collaborator Jordan Raphael, who's now a lawyer, wrote a book together, the first biography of Stan in the early aughts. It had a lot of really good stuff, but it too was heavy on the ‘60s and some of the ‘70s and then drops off. And I just felt, well, there's got to be something in there and turns out, I think that's where the whole story was. That's where you see the vast majority of what Stan's life was like, both in terms of just the numbers of years— he was alive for much longer than that one decade of the 1960s — but also because that's where you start to really see what fame and success and money did to Stan.What was it?Well, a lot of things, but one was he wanted more. He was never satisfied. He didn't like comics, particularly. He didn't like superheroes, particularly. He said that on the record — that's not me inferring — it's just people don't pay attention when he said that because he would also talk out of the other side of his mouth and say he loved the medium, and he loved the genre. But evidence points toward that not really being the case. Every time he tried to break out of comics, which was basically every day of his life since he got back from World War II and went back to his comics job he had left to go be in the service, every time he was trying to escape comics, it was never to make more comics. It was never, "I want to go do superhero stories in another medium either." It was, “I want to go make movies and I want to be taken seriously as a novelist or as any number of other things that are not comic book writer.”Later in life, once he had the taste of fame that he got from his work in the ‘60s, he just spent the rest of his life from 1971 until 2018 just trying to be something else. That led to a lot of disastrous incidents. I trace the history of his two post-Marvel companies. His first one was a Dot Com Bubble-era company called Stan Lee Media. The other one is one that still exists now as a subsidiary of this big Chinese conglomerate, but it's called POW! Entertainment, and both of them were accused of enormous criminal, or at least unlawful, malfeasance, of bilking investors and juicing a stock and all kinds of stuff. No one had talked about that, no one had looked at that. And yet that's where Stan's true colors — in a lot of ways, I don't want to say always — but where a lot of his professional true colors came through. He wanted to have money, he wanted to be famous. He wanted to break out of just being thought of as the Marvel guy. And it never happened.Around the end of his life, or by the end of his life I should say, he was world famous for being the Marvel guy, but he was not world famous for anything else. No one talks about the great triumph that was Stan Lee's Stripperella, or Stan Lee's The Mighty 7, or Stan Lee's Superhero Christmas. All of these silly tossed off things that didn't really go anywhere. No one talks about them. They just talk about the work he did in the ‘60s, and that's something that Stan found very frustrating. He wanted to be known for more.It's an incredibly powerful story and it's so deeply reported. It's gotten a lot of love from folks within the comics industry, many of whom have seen this, but have not had a chance to really see the real situation laid out. I suppose coming to the end, what do you think your main takeaways about this are? What do you think the main difficulties are? And where do you think this goes next?Well, I don't know. I'd love to see what people have to say about it. I've been very gratified to get some nice responses so far, but I want this to be something that opens up discussion, not just about — this is all highfalutin, I don't know if any of this will happen — but I would love for this to be the beginning of a discussion about the ‘great man' theory of business. I hate it. I hate this fixation we have on having singular geniuses who are responsible for the products that we like. We want there to be an intimate one-to-one relationship between us and the creator. If you want to get really heavy about it, you can talk about it in religious terms.Maybe we want to feel like we have a relationship with one who creates, with one who has this godlike ability to make something out of nothing. That leads us down dangerous paths because we start avoiding the truth. We're not looking for the actual ways in which something does get created. The other problem is we then throw under the bus all of the many people who are not the one great man, who are in some part, or sometimes in most part, responsible for creating the thing. So, I would hope that if there's a lesson to this book, it's question what you're told about people, and especially what people tell you about themselves. People have regurgitated Stan's version of events for more than a half a century now. We just have widely taken this one man's word as gospel.I would love for this to be something that prompts journalists and historians to think more carefully about who they believe, because oftentimes we just go with whoever the most charismatic and nicest seeming person is and say, well, their version of events is probably true, and then we print it uncritically. I get it. I'm a journalist. A lot of times you don't have enough information to be able to make a claim that you know something is one way or another, but that shouldn't be an excuse to do a shoddy job of describing what you know, or acting like you know something that you don't know for certain.So, I guess that's the last thing. I would like for this book to be something that encourages us to live with the awful agony of ambiguity. We're not necessarily going to know what happened in the past in order to influence things that we like in the present. You sometimes have to sit with the fact that these things are unknowable, and that's hard for people. It's hard for me, it's hard writing a piece to admit that you don't know, but it's also sometimes the only intellectually and morally honest way to approach a subject.So, there you have it, the definitive answer on Stan Lee. It is unknowable. And we must be content with ambiguity within the art that we like. Abraham, thank you so much for coming on. The book is True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, where can folks find it?Easiest way is to go to your one-stop shop for all Abraham Riesman needs, which is Abrahamriesman.com. I'm on Twitter, @abrahamjoseph.All right. Thanks so much for coming on. I appreciate it. And we'll want to hear why all of Stan Lee's stuff is in Wyoming at a later time.Some other time. If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! 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You don't know Stan Lee. You only think you do. Abraham Riesman's new biography, "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee" is the definitive biography on the man who "created the Marvel Comics Universe." Even if you're a die-hard comic book obsessive, this book will rock your understanding of Stan the Man. His story is also the story of comics as an industry. Anyone who adores this medium, not just Marvel Zombies, should dig into this book and open their mind to this incredibly complicated saga.   We're honored and delighted to have Riesman on the podcast this week. We break into the myths, the legends, and, most importantly, the passions that surround Stan Lee. We strongly encourage you to read the book, but it's not a requirement for enjoying this conversation. No doubt, however, you'll want a copy for yourself when you get done with this chat.   You can purchase "True Believer" from your favorite local bookstore. Learn more about it by clicking on the Random House website. Also, make sure to catch up on all of Riesman's adventures and endeavors HERE and follow him on Twitter HERE. You can read his original Stan Lee article for Vulture HERE.   Be sure to follow the podcast on Instagram and Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren.   SUPPORT THE PODCAT BY JOINING OUR PATREON COMMUNITY.   Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.

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Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, joins Dan and Lex to explore two meanings of the phrase "Marvel's Torah" (this episode's title). First, "the Torah of Marvel" -- what can be learned from the Marvel comics universe when approached through a Jewish lens? And second, "Marvel is Torah" -- the idea that the structure of Marvel's universe, in and of itself, represents a kind of modern-day Bible.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.

In this week's episode, we chat with our very first guest, Abraham Riesman, journalist and author of the new book from Penguin Random House, True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. www.abrahamriesman.com New episodes every Thursday! Follow us on social media! Instagram: @comicsnchronic Twitter: @comicsnchronic YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC45vP6pBHZk9rZi_2X3VkzQ Twitch: twitch.tv/comicsnchronic E-mail: comicsnchronicpodcast@gmail.com Cody Twitter: @Cody_Cannon Instagram: @walaka_cannon TikTok: @codywalakacannon Jake Instagram: @jakefhaha Anthony Twitter: @mrtonynacho Instagram: @tonynacho // @nachocomedyofficial YouTube: youtube.com/nachocomedy

The author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee makes his return to the show this week to dig deep on Stan Lee's public persona, hair plugs, salesmanship, saying yes to everything, enthusiasm, Jack Kirby, and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris take a listener question about WandaVision!

In this week's episode of Off Panel, author Abraham Riesman joins to chat about his new book, True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. Riesman discusses the pre-release response to the book, Stan Lee and Marvel's inseparability, what appealed to him about the project, Lee's relationship with his own life, the research process, the most interesting character from the process, the ambiguity of Marvel's origins, Stan the Brand, biggest surprises, Riesman's changing relationship with superheroes, becoming a biographer, and more.

"I'm not damning Stan Lee, I'm living with ambiguity" says Abraham Riesman of his essential new Stan Lee biography True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. No matter where you stand on the debate of who gets credit for Marvel comics, you MUST read this book. It's past time for a serious work of history like this one examining the conflicting stories behind one of most imporant cultural forces of the 20th century. Abe has done completely new research into the Lieber familiy's history in Romania and the Romanian Jewish mileiu of Stan's youth. He's interviewed the journalists who wrote key pieces around Stan's life and times at Marvel. He's gotten everyone to talk, from Stan's brother (cartoonist Larry Lieber) to the vultures who plagued Stan at the end of his life. Abraham Riesman is a journalist whose work has appeared in Vulture, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, and many other outlets. He is the author of TRUE BELIEVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF STAN LEE and the forthcoming RINGMASTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF VINCE MCMAHON. He lives in Rhode Island with his partner, the journalist SI Rosenbaum. His website is abrahamriesman.com and his Twitter handle is @abrahamjoseph. For more from me on Stan Lee, listen to my episode with journalist Spencer Ackermen upon Lee's death: https://graphicpolicy.com/2018/11/23/stan-lee-politics-and-business-with-spencer-ackerman-listen-to-the-podcast-on-demand-and-on-the-go/  

This episode features the journalist Abraham Riesman, author of the new Stan Lee biography True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. We spend a lot of the full episode talking about the book and his history with Marvel Comics, but in this (rather generous) preview segment we talk about Stephen Malkmus, Beck, Kiki & Herb, and how coming out as bisexual in his early 30s shifted his relationship with some music. For the full episode, hit up the Fluxblog Patreon. 

Serious Fun is back and we're talking with journalist and author Abraham Riesman about his new book "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee" in a thought-provoking discussion about the fraught relationship between Lee and Jack Kirby, the role of copyright in maintaining celebrity mythology, and the elusiveness of a person's true nature (among lots of other things).

Abraham Riesman is a journalist and essayist, writing primarily for New York Magazine about arts and culture. He has written a book chronicling the world-changing triumphs and tragic missteps of the extraordinary life of Stan Lee, titled: True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee. He called into the show to discuss the book and detailed the extensive research involved, and talked about what readers can expect from the upcoming biography.Watch the FULL interview on our YouTube channel  The Short Box is made possible by sponsor & listener support on Patreon. Support the show & join our Patreon community! Podcast logo & other artwork by Ashley Lani Hoye, Edmund "Edbot5k" DansartAnd you can follow hosts: Badr & CesarSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theshortbox)Proudly sponsored by Gotham City Limit!

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Clarissa talks with writer Abraham Riesman. This conversation was recorded in December 2019 when Abe was writing a biography of the Jewish Marvel Comics Icon Stan Lee. The book is titled “True Believer, the Rise and Fall of Stan Lee,” and is slated for release February of 2021. Abe talks about his journey as a writer, reclaiming Jewish history and culture that has been left behind or erased, and finding his way to becoming what he calls “a born-again Jew.”Media MentionedCall Me by Your Name“The Yiddish Policemen's Union” by Michael Chabon“Radical Then, Radical Now: Exploring the Legacy of the World’s Oldest Religion” by Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksOrganizations MentionedThe Workers CircleJewish CurrentsBase HillelAbraham Riesman’s Articles Mentioned“A Jew's Christmas Confession”“David Berman Struggled to Feel the Joy He Brought Us”“It’s Stan Lee’s Universe”Connect with UsFollow Abraham RiesmanWebsite: Abrahamriesman.comNewsletter: Type SlowlyTwitter: @abrahamjosephInstagram: @abrahamjosephFollow Clarissa MarksTwitter: @clarissarmarksInstagram: @clarissarmarksVisit Onwandering.co for show notes and transcriptsLike the show? Rate On Wandering 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts Suggest a topic or a guest by sending an email to ClarissaRMarks@gmail.comLand AcknowledgementOn Wandering is recorded on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People, and honors with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe.

Clarissa talks with writer Abraham Riesman. This conversation was recorded in December 2019 when Abe was writing a biography of the Jewish Marvel Comics Icon Stan Lee. The book is titled “True Believer, the Rise and Fall of Stan Lee,” and is slated for release February of 2021. Abe talks about his journey as a writer, reclaiming Jewish history and culture that has been left behind or erased, and finding his way to becoming what he calls “a born-again Jew.”Media MentionedCall Me by Your Name“The Yiddish Policemen's Union” by Michael Chabon“Radical Then, Radical Now: Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion” by Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksOrganizations MentionedThe Workers CircleJewish CurrentsBase HillelAbraham Riesman's Articles Mentioned“A Jew's Christmas Confession”“David Berman Struggled to Feel the Joy He Brought Us”“It's Stan Lee's Universe”Connect with UsFollow Abraham RiesmanWebsite: Abrahamriesman.comNewsletter: Type SlowlyTwitter: @abrahamjosephInstagram: @abrahamjosephFollow Clarissa MarksTwitter: @clarissarmarksInstagram: @clarissarmarksVisit Onwandering.co for show notes and transcriptsLike the show? Rate On Wandering 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts Suggest a topic or a guest by sending an email to ClarissaRMarks@gmail.comLand AcknowledgementOn Wandering is recorded on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People, and honors with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe.

Abraham Riesman is a cultural journalist and the author of 'True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee' (as well as a forthcoming biography of Vince McMahon). He sat down with The Backstory crew to talk through the dopamine rush he got from watching the 2006 Alfonso Cuarón film 'Children of Men,' and how it helped him establish his moral compass in storytelling.

Listen at 2000AD.com - 2000ad.com/podcast Listen on Spotify - bit.do/thrillcastspotify Subscribe on iTunes - bit.do/thrillcastitunes Welcome to the eighteenth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you'd like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com With the Smash! Special bursting onto shelves and digital soon, the Thrill-Cast takes a look at three very British superheroes! Journalist and writer Helen O'Hara talks about her take on the origin story of the new Thunderbolt the Avenger and discusses the cultural impact of superheroes, before writer Rob Williams and artist John McCrea return to the Thrill-Cast to talk about reintroducing the 'King of Crooks', The Spider, and the different ways you can breath new life into classic characters. We're then joined by journalist Abraham Riesman to take a deep-dive into Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's superbrat Zenith, examining its satire of superheroes and the comic book industry, taking the mickey out of Richard Branson to Morrison's place as post-modernist prophet. The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you're keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe - and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy's Greatest Podcast! The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

LIST-A-RAMA-A-GO-GO: “It’s the end of the world as Hudson Hawk knows it.” (1981-1997) Today’s episode title might not be the most optimistic draw but it is representative of a pretty popular mindset. So with it Bob and Tim are socially distancing from separate coasts to discuss wayward comets, robotic sentinels and a time traveling Bruce Willis. Truthfully, 12 Monkeys may not be the most upbeat conversation but at least its a reflection that they’re both still trying. 00:00:00  PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - taking longer than normal to get there00:02:03  TOTAL DISTRACT OF THE HEART - and an outbreak of anxieties00:10:24  12 MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED - prelude to the apocalypse00:20:30  COMET COMET COMET COMET COMET CHAMELEON - O.K. at the end of the world  00:28:20  FIELD OF DOOMS - I guess they’re talking about Kevin Costner here00:34:09  COMMERCIAL BREAK - Tim’s new podcast “What’s that Song?”00:36:03  UNCANNY X-MAGGEDDONN - lingering plot threads and having it coming 00:41:26  SUMMATION IN PLACE - what this pop culture makes of what’s happening right now00:51:02  CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase00:54:13  UNLICENSED AUDIO - Schlemiel, Schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer IncorporatedEngage with this journalistic take on why 12 MONKEYS IS THE APOCALYPSE MOVIE WE NEED RIGHT NOW by Abraham Riesman recently reposted at VULTURE.com.Watch the (by this point, to be expected) difficulties filmmaker Terry Gilliam had making 12 Monkeys as chronicled with the full length documentary THE HAMSTER FACTOR (AND OTHER TALES OF 12 MONKEYS) by directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.Dance along to a Cyndi Lauper cover during this RANDOM DANCE SCENE FROM NIGHT OF THE COMET. Witness Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney relating what it was like working on this apocalyptic comedy with this(somewhat creepily hosted) 2016 NIGHT OF THE COMET SCREENING PANEL AT THE ART CRAFT THEATER. Experience the apocalypse that was its production with THE ORAL HISTORY OF WATER WORLD by Gogo Lidz as featured in Newsweek.Have your heart broken with this clip of TOM PETTY IN THE POSTMAN (seriously … that’s the musician Tom Petty … and he’s in the post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner Movie The Postman … as Tom Petty).Hear one of Tim's favorite comic book authors Chris Claremont discuss his work on the X-Men (including The "Days Of Future Past" storyline) with COMICVERSE PODCAST EPISODE 72: CHRIS CLAREMONT INTERVIEW from 2016. And finally, unrelated to anything else, here's some of the BEST LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY BLOOPERS to distract with.The use of audio and video clips linked from YOUTUBE are for educational purposes and without the expressed permission of their legal holding companies.  All rights remain with with their original distributor.This episode of 20TH CENTURY POP! was recorded by CAST, an online audio platform that lets you create and record a multi-guest podcast straight from your web-browser.    It was then mastered by AUPHONIC, a web-based post-production service that makes it sound like Bob and Tim are worth listening to.  Check out both sights for trial and subscription information.MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:“Super Poupi” (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org.   Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.. “Making Our Dreams Come True” performed by Cyndi Grecco from the 1976 album MAKING OUR DREAMS COME TRUE and as featured in the opening credits to LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY. The use of this song is for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.  Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POP! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POP! on FACEBOOKFollow whats not 20th Century Fox with 20TH CENTURY POP! @20popcast on TWITTER.And crop a square snapshot with 20TH CENTURY POP @20popcast on INSTAGRAM.Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com or with #20popcast on Twitter.Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic BOB HAS ISSUES on Twitter @Bobissues. Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as @subcultist on INSTAGRAM.  20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week with a reminder of what it was like to binge TV's FRIENDS.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

in bold company with Kristina Gonzalez Sanderin bold company is a lifestyle podcast and community created to give women of color the opportunity to relate, connect and support each other as they explore their identities. The podcast dives deep into topics like wellness, entrepreneurship, self-development, family, money, and more. These are the conversations we’ve been waiting for, the ones we don’t hear enough. Let’s dig in. Episode 1: Inner Child Work, Ancestral Healing, and Feminine Energy with Ferny BarcelóReady to talk about family? Oh yeah, we go there. Our guest is our Ferny Barceló is a holistic therapist for women plus a yoga and meditation teacher. In this episode, definitely get a bit esoteric. We talk about exploring our relationships with our parents, our ancestors, white-passing and being a proud Latina.Connect with us on @inboldcompany You can find Ferny Barceló and her offerings on her website or on Instagram. Ferny references the book It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn. Birth chart readings by Far Out Astro. Highly recommend. If you want your own set of Oracle Cards, my friend Kati has a shop in Austin (and online) called Rituals Austin.Podcast: tune in hereInstagram: @inboldcompanyWebsite: https://www.inboldcompany.com/Rootless Cosmos with Clarissa MarksOne curious but discerning woman goes on an expedition of Jewish heritage. Tune in for a series of deep dives with experts and conversations with innovators on the cutting edge of Jewish cultural change. All are welcome as we tackle topics related to Jews, culture, history, identity and society.Episode 3: What's It Like to Write About Jews AND Pop-Culture? With Journalist and Author Abraham RiesmanClarissa talks with Abraham Riesman. Abe is a reporter and essayist for New York magazine and often writes for its culture and entertainment site, Vulture. In addition to arts and culture, Abe covers Jewish topics, and sometimes he finds a way for the two to overlap. He also has a new book coming out on the Jewish Marvel Comics icon, Stan Lee. In this episode, Clarissa and Abe talk about his Jewish and journalist journeys, find out they went to the same Hebrew school, and they dig into the raison d'etre behind this podcast.Media Mentioned"Call Me by Your Name"“The Yiddish Policemen's Union” by Michael Chabon“Radical Then, Radical Now: Exploring the Legacy of the World’s Oldest Religion” by Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksOrganizations MentionedThe Workers CircleJewish CurrentsBase HillelAbraham Riesman’s Articles Mentioned“A Jew's Christmas Confession”“David Berman Struggled to Feel the Joy He Brought Us”“It’s Stan Lee’s Universe”Find out more about Abraham Riesman at Abrahamriesman.comPre-order Abraham Riesman's Biography of Stan LeFollow Abraham Riesman on TwitterFollow Abraham Riesman on FacebookYou can suggest a topic or a guest for an upcoming show by sending an email to RootlessCosPod@gmail.comPodcast powered and distributed by SimplecastPodcast: tune in hereInstagram: @rootlesscospodFacebook: Rootless Cos PodTwitter: @rootlesscospodImpostor Syndrome by Rose ArscottThe One Where I Interview MyselfThe first-ever episode of Imposter Syndrome, hosted by Rose Arscott, where Rose interviews themselves.Link to reading recco: Your Art Will Save Your Life Beth Pickens: https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/your-art-will-save-your-lifeHomework: What does fear feel like in your body?Rose @posle (https://www.instagram.com/posle/?hl=en)Music: Special Place by Kesta (https://ketsa.uk/)Podcast: tune in hereInstagram: @posleIf You Liked This Episode Try Out:Last time's winning episode with the hosts of That's Pretty Woo and The Wisdom Withinnew to *let it out* --> start with these linkskatie's site: https://katiedalebout.com/our start here guide: https://letitouttt.com/general/start-here/++ LET IT OUT letter katie's book: https://amzn.to/2W4bHufwant to start a podcast? letapodcastout.club  

Media Mentioned"Call Me by Your Name"“The Yiddish Policemen's Union” by Michael Chabon“Radical Then, Radical Now: Exploring the Legacy of the World’s Oldest Religion” by Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksOrganizations MentionedThe Workers CircleJewish CurrentsBase HillelAbraham Riesman’s Articles Mentioned“A Jew's Christmas Confession”“David Berman Struggled to Feel the Joy He Brought Us”“It’s Stan Lee’s Universe”Connect with UsFind out more about Abraham Riesman at Abrahamriesman.comPre-order Abraham Riesman's Biography of Stan LeeSign up for Abraham Riesman’s NewsletterFollow Abraham Riesman on TwitterFollow Abraham Riesman on FacebookSubscribe to Rootless Cosmos in Apple PodcastsFollow Rootless Cosmos on TwitterFollow Rootless Cosmos on InstagramLike Rootless Cosmos on FacebookYou can suggest a topic or a guest for an upcoming show by sending an email to RootlessCosPod@gmail.com

As the superhero industrial complex expands beyond comprehension, we can count on Abraham Riesman to make sense of the madness. Riesman is a staff writer at New York Magazine, where he's elevated comic book journalism into a serious craft. He also writes about contemporary Israeli politics, and is currently working on the official biography of Stan Lee. He tells David about his writer's journey, how his Jewish and bisexual perspectives inform his work, and where he is with the book. You can follow Riesman @abrahamjoseph. If you enjoy this episode, be sure to share/rate/subscribe on ITunes. You can follow David @goldberghawn and read his work at davidgoldberg.online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Magazine and Vulture writer Abraham Riesman joins our bonus episode to discuss his experiences interviewing Watchmen showrunner Damon Lindelof, his take on artist rights issues surrounding the graphic novel, and much more. Plus, a big week in Watchmen as we discuss all the fall-out from dildo-gate after “She Was Killed By Space Junk,” […] The post Watchmen Watch: Episode 3.5, With Abraham Riesman appeared first on Comic Book Club.

Abraham Riesman (New York Mag, an upcoming biography of Stan Lee) and Daniel Kibblesmith (“The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert,” Marvel's “Loki”) join the live show, and turns out they know each other??? Check out the website at comicbookclublive.com to find out how to watch the show live! And follow the show on Twitter: @comicbooklive, @azalben, @jtsizzle, and @realpetelepage Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Abraham Riesman (New York Mag, an upcoming biography of Stan Lee) and Daniel Kibblesmith (“The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert,” Marvel's “Loki”) join the live show, and turns out they know each other??? Check out the website at comicbookclublive.com to find out how to watch the show live! And follow the show on Twitter: @comicbooklive, @azalben, @jtsizzle, and @realpetelepage Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Technophobia Show Notes for July 22nd, 2019 The Tech Show for Technophobes The Vegan Meat Revolution, debating Christopher Nolan, Old School Scams The crew debates the merits of veganism and Chris Nolan’s greatest hits. Plus a classic tech horror story from the great Abraham Riesman! Abraham Riesman How Magneto Became Jewish - Abraham Riesman Abraham Riesman on Twitter (@abrahamjoseph) Abraham's Website Vegan Meat Revolution The Vegan Meat Revolution Could Help Save The Planet – And Fast-food Chains Are Finally Taking Notice (Malte Rödl - The Independent) What Is Heme? Vegan Plant Protein Makes Impossible Burger Possible The Battery Report Sand-based batteries last three times longer than conventional ones Technophobia Show Links Show Twitter: @technophobiapod Taylor: @TayVanPodMan Tom: @TomMarshTech Six: @TechnophobiaSix Battery Guy Si: @BatteryGuySi E-mail us: theshow@technophobiapod.com   Don't be dumb. There's nothing to be afraid of.   

Abraham Riesman (New York Magazine, Vulture) returns to the show to chat about his upcoming book on Stan Lee, and more! Check out the website at comicbookclublive.com to find out how to watch the show live! And follow the show on Twitter: @comicbooklive, @azalben, @jtsizzle, and @realpetelepage Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/comicbookclub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A comic book expert says Stan Lee is a “legend,” but “a legend with a few asterisks” attached to his name.

The day after Stan Lee's death, we look at the comic book legend's impact on popular culture. And New York Magazine and Vulture staff writer Abraham Riesman explains why Stan Lee's legacy is just a complicated as the superhero stories he helped create.

It's the last day before the Royal Wedding and nerves are at a fever pitch. We spoke to Danny Pike of the BBC and got local reaction to the pomp and circumstance as well as details about the ceremony. We also spoke to Tim Teeman, a native Briton and Royal's editor for The Daily Beast about the business side of the wedding. If you aren't waking up early for the wedding, maybe you're spending your weekend checking out the new Deadpool movie. Vulture's Abraham Riesman gives us the full rundown of how the first one got made, it's a story decades in the making. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

We examine the case of Jeffrey Dahmer through the lens of the recently released bio pic My Friend Dahmer and the narrative documentary The Jeffrey Dahmer Files. Sources for this episode: Jeffrey Dahmer: Stone Phillips interview with Jeffrey Dahmer, Lionel Dahmer, and Joyce Flint, "Dateline" NBC 1994 "How Systemic Racism Fueled Jeffrey Dahmer's Killing Spree" by Arthur Tam, Logo The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters   My Friend Dahmer: "Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood Friend Talks About His Graphic Novel My Friend Dahmer and its New Movie Adaptation" by Abraham Riesman, Vulture 

Ya se estrena Black Panther, y es un buen momento para hablar de uno de los autores que hizo relevante al personaje: Christopher Priest. Nacido como James Owsley, conocido a veces como "Priest" a secas, fue el primer editor negro de las dos grandes de los comics de EEUU, empezando su carrera en los 70s en Marvel. Como editor, inició o propulsó las carreras de varios pilares del comic de superhéroes norteamericano. No solo eso, sino que también es el primer guionista negro fijo en ese ambiente. Ha escrito Spider-Man, Power Man & Iron Fist, Conan, y muchos otros, y hoy día escribe Justice League y Deathstroke. Pero la serie que escribió durante más tiempo (62 números, o sea, unos 5 años) fue el tercer volumen de Black Panther, la más longeva del personaje. Aunque fue creado por Jack Kirby, Priest fue quien lo volvió relevante y lo popularizó para un nuevo siglo. Muchas de las cosas que vamos a ver en la película salieron de ahí (junto con cosas escritas por Reggie Hudlin y Ta-Nehisi Coates). Priest ha sido víctima de racismo en la industria del comic, y se ha cansado de ella. Ha renunciado más de una vez al medio, trabajando de conductor de omnibus, pastor cristiano, y otras cosas. Y lo han venido a buscar todas esas veces, porque el comic lo necesita más de lo que el necesita al comic. Talentoso, sin pelos en la lengua, un sorete abrasivo por su propia admisión, pero con una historia de vida muy interesante... este TITANES que nos trae MaGnUs, acompañado de Endriago, nos arroja luces (y sombras) sobre alguien que merece su lugar en la historia del comic. Con música de Hollis Stone, y de Run DMC. Fuentes: "The Man Who Made Black Panther Cool" (por Abraham Riesman para New York Magazine y Vulture), Wikipedia, sitio web de Christopher Priest (digitalpriest.com), entrevista a Priest por Hannibal Tabu para Operative.net. Imagen: Foto por Elliot R. Brown, arte por Jorge Lucas. Próximo programa: TITANES / DUOS DINÁMICOS: Carlos Trillo & Horacio Altuna.

On this week's episode of Off Panel, Vulture and New York Magazine's Abraham Riesman comes on the podcast to discuss his feature writing and recent massive piece on the change of approach at DC Entertainment. Riesman discusses his work through the prism of his Fantastic Four tattoo, the story of seeing Logan with Chris Claremont, how his feature writing develops, how much social media and corporate mergers have changed interviews with people in comics, the skills necessary to succeed in comics these days, how his big DC Entertainment feature developed, how The New 52 became The New 52, his upcoming Batman: The Animated Series oral history, the art of the interview, and more, before we dive into five questions about Riesman himself.

They've tried to take over the world. They've tried to take away our free will. They've gone after ancient artifacts with vaguely defined magical properties. But they almost always fail. The evil plan has become a meta-joke to the point where even the villains themselves can't help but comment on all the tropes. Yet we keep watching movies and TV shows to see more evil plans hatched.. Honest Trailers head writer Spencer Gilbert and Vulture.com writer Abraham Riesman talk about why super villains shouldn't try so hard to be evil geniuses, and how the best evil plans make us wonder if we'd do the same thing in the villain's situation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his reporting for Vulture and New York magazine, Abraham Riesman has talked to some of the titans of comics. So we talk with him about those interactions with Steve Ditko, Todd McFarlane, Priest, Daniel Clowes, Stan Lee, and others. Plus, we get into the pronunciation of his name, candy, go-karts and a whole lot more! And on top of that, we answer two probing listener questions!

In this podcast episode Lou welcomes special guests to talk comics together as friends!

There's some soul searching in this episode as Neil and Dario try and figure out how and why to watch cinema with the world in such a state of flux. Thankfully, the film under focus is apt for this purpose. Down in Falmouth Neil and Kingsley screen and discuss a seminal childhood film for all involved, a film that seems more prescient that ever: Paul Verhoeven's 80s sci-fi classic Robocop. It seems the enduring relevance of Robocop is on other people's minds at the moment. Check out Abraham Riesman's recent piece for Vulture here. Also, for more discussion about cinema in an age of repression and confusion and why film matters, check out this brilliant Film Quarterly panel hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Vital listening for these tumultuous times. 

In this episode we are joined by Abraham Riesman @abrahamjoseph, associate editor of Vulture at New York Magazine. We're talking about a scene that is important for the upcoming slate of DC films, most notably Justice League. Diana receives an email from Bruce Wayne that includes Lex Luthor's metahuman files. We see clips of Arthur Curry aka Aquaman, Barry Allen aka The Flash, and Victor Stone aka Cyborg. Do these cameo appearances give us hope for the upcoming solo films? Are those films even still happening?  We're holding out hope for a brighter future. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode of 92Y Talks, the cast and creators of AMC's Preacher - Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen and Garth Ennis talk about the new hit series with Abraham Riesman of NY magazine's Vulture.com. The conversation was recorded on May 19, 2016 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

Abraham Riesman joins Matt and Gazelle to talk about the ever-expanding world of comic adaptations on TV, with a particular focus on the new season of "Daredevil." Plus, Neve Campbell shares the joys of working with the creative team behind "House of Cards," and how her background in dance kept her focused amidst the feverish pace of her career in the 90's. SPOILERS: "Daredevil" (both seasons)"Jessica Jones""House of Cards"