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David Armstrong interviewed Golden Age great and Graphic Novelist, Will Eisner in 1997 on set at San Diego Comic Con about the early history of comic books, comic strip reprints, his entry into comics, WOW What A Magazine!, his partnership with Jerry Iger, the growing concept of early comic books with original material, starting the Eisner and Iger shop, partnering with Everett M. Arnold at Quality Comics on the Spirit Newspaper Insert, departing the Iger shop, serving in World War 2, its effect on his storytelling and starting PS Magazine. Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong. Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.Support the show
Mike, Kait, and Kara chat about what they're reading, why there are never enough Hoopla downloads to sate us, and why you (yes you!) should be gearing up for spooky season. It is Augtober, after all.00:00:00 - Start/Last Week in Comics00:01:11 - PS Magazine by Will Eisner00:12:59 - Little Monarchs00:19:23 - Blurry00:27:42 - The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún00:32:16 - Discord Picks00:32:30 - Damn Them All Vol. 100:33:54 - Rust Vol. 200:37:36 - WrapMusic provided by Infinity Shred. Find them on Bandcamp.IRCB Avatars by @ICELEVELIRCB Logo by Kyle RoseProducer: Mike Rapin + Kara SzamborskiEditor: Zander RiggsProoflistener: Paul Jaissle Support us on Patreon to get access to our Patreon-only series: IRCB Movie Club, Saga of Saga, Giant Days of Our Lives, A Better Batmobile, and more! patreon.com/ircbpodcastEmail: ircbpodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @ircbpodcastInstagram: @ircbpodcastDiscord: discordapp.com/invite/E8JUB9sReddit: ireadcomicbooks.reddit.comIRCB GoodreadsMerch: ircbpodcast.com/shop
This week Francis discusses the final folding of PS Magazine, the only cool graphic novel the military ever funded. We also talk about Top Gun, Redwall, and pulling a Dante to put all the people we don't like in Hell. If you like this, get even more on our Patreon. Your money makes it so we don't have to try to sell you mail order mattresses
It has been presented by numerous contactees that humans are a project and being watched by an overseer - not of human origin. We have been prevented and warned by those others not to push the button to end life as we know it, and yet - here we are at 100 seconds to midnight. (Doomsday clock.) What if humans are not the point of the project? Could it be that the life-worth-saving is that which won't/can't push the kill switch? Something Richard O'Connor said during our interview, about a voice he heard, made me think about that. Dr. Richard O'Connor is the Director of the Jesse Marcel Library. He was friends with Jesse Marcel Jr. who, as a boy, handled debris from the Roswell crash. "The item that Marcel said fascinated him the most was a small beam with purple-hued hieroglyphics on it, she said." The Guardian. We talked about Richard's book, the current situation in Russia, the memory of a UFO as a child, and unexplained encounter, as an adult, in his home. And - just like the book - he saved the crop circles for last. In UFOs, Nuclear Weapons, and a New Age of Reason, Amazon. About: What has become obvious is stated as fact - our civilization is realizing ongoing contact with a separate, intelligent, technologically advanced, other-than-present-day-human civilization referred to in this book as "the Others". Recent admissions by semi-official Pentagon spokespersons are corroborating what previous US military officers, acting as whistleblowers, have been espousing for more than two decades. Amazon Customer Review: "Dr. O'Connor's book is unlike any I have read and was hard to put down. He provided for me an introduction, well-annotated and footnoted, too many of the mysteries of UFOs, crop circles, the Nazca Mummies, cattle mutilations, alien abductions, and the possibility of 'the Others'. Tying into these subjects, he also offers a poignant and compelling calling out of our civilization's insane 75-year obsession with life-on-earth-ending nuclear weapons. I have known Dr. O'Connor professionally for over 40 years, and I have known him to be a very intelligent, deep thinking, compassionate, and honest man." 3 troublesome issues with this very recent article on Crop circles: Live Science 1. Only created during the night. 2. No pictures of any being created. 3. The otherwise reputable organizations buying the story that most crop circles are of human origin and citing proof as to the infamous rope and plank British duo [September 1991], Doug Bower and Dave Chorley who said they started their hobby in 1978. More skeptics - PS Magazine BBC Stoned Wallabies Researcher - Studying Crop Circles since 1983. Colin Andrews. Website. Connect with Richard O'Connor - The Letter - Crop Circle Research Foundation. Twitter. Jesse Marcel Library. Wendy's Blog As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
From 2009: Paul Fitzgerald, the first managing editor of PS Magazine—which was founded by Will Eisner—worked with Eisner longer than probably anyone else. They traveled overseas together and shared many social moments in each other’s company. A long time dream of Fitz’s was a book that shared with the world one of the lesser known periods of Eisner’s life, his 20 years at the art helm of PS Magazine, the Army’s preventive maintenance magazine.
Today's Guest: Paul Fitzgerald, Stuart Henderson, Cindy Jackson, authorities, Will Eisner and "PS Magazine" Will Eisner and PS Magazine In the pantheon of comic book masters, Will Eisner’s name is at or near the top of pretty much everyone’s list. He was there at the birth of the genre in the late 1930s – he famously turned down a submission from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of a comic book about a character named Superman. Will suggested they go back to art school in Cleveland and get a little better at his craft. Will Eisner, co-founder of the U.S. Army's long-running PS Magazine, during his own military service in World War II Eisner himself is best known as the creator of an enduring but little known character called "The Spirit." This is a big year for The Spirit, with a major motion picture written and directed by Frank Miller currently in post-production and scheduled for release in January 2009. Eisner is also known as the grandfather of the graphic novel for producing one of the genre's earliest and most enduring works, 1978's A Contract With God. I spent three years with Eisner, interviewing him and researching his life for the biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, which was published by M Press/Dark Horse in 2005. There is a period of time in Eisner’s life, however, that is less known than all the others. From 1951 through 1972, he produced PS Magazine for the United States Army. It was a digest-sized comic book, essentially, that taught preventive maintenance to American soldiers from Korea through Vietnam. A week ago, the Virginia Commonwealth University library announced it had scanned more than 140 issues of PS and made the magazine available to the general public, online, for the first time. Will Eisner and PS Magazine by Paul Fitzgerald Because so much interest is being concentrated on Eisner’s work this year – and because it is a personal interest of my own, I’ve invited a trio of experts on PS Magazine to join me for a conversation about “The Unknown Eisner”: • Cindy Jackson is Archival Assistant for Comic Arts & Digital Collections in the Special Collections & Archives Department of the James Branch Cabell (rhymes with rabble) Library at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. • Paul Fitzgerald is a retired journalist who spent 10 years at PS Magazine where he worked alongside Will Eisner and formed a life-long friendship. Paul’s first book, Will Eisner and PS Magazine, will be published in May 2008. • Stuart Henderson joined the PS staff in August of 1993, and he has been production manager of the magazine since March of 2002. He is also the Army magazine’s unofficial historian. PS Magazine Website • Facebook • Wikipedia • Archive of all Will Eisner issues of PS Magazine at Virginia Commonwealth University • RadioNerds PS Magazine cover slideshow • Order Will Eisner and PS Magazine Order 'PS Magazine: The Best of The Preventive Maintenance Monthly' featuring the work of Will Eisner, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! Order Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (2nd Edition) by Bob Andelman, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above! The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!
Spirituality and food- Soul Food! Whenever my time allows, what I love watch ing on T.V. are mostly cookery programmes. If you see the eclectic collection of cookery books on my shelf, from Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, Eating For Beauty, by David Wolfe, to Claudia Roden’s Arabesque, you’d be a fool to think that I am an avid cook! But when my friend saw the newly released book, Sufi Cuisine by Nevin Halici, at the local public library, he knew that I would love it. In the foreword of the book, Claudia Roden writes: “it is a cultural history, a book of poetry, a culinary memoir and a collection of recipes. It also gives rare insight into the spiritual wisdom and philosophy that Rumi expressed through ecstatic love poetry seeking to unite humanity in love, respect and brotherhood”. In it, the author also describes how a Sufi’s initiation begins in the kitchen.As I go through ‘mine’, I must confess that although I am keen recipe collector, I never seem to stick to any, and I certainly never remember a favourite one. Why do I do it? Simply because it inspired me! Inspiration takes out the ‘o’ out of any culinary chore. At those moments, which are becoming more frequent, when I venture into the kitchen; the one recipe for culinary success I remember each time is an old prayer to the three cookery saints my mother always uses. No matter what the recipe requires, or whatever my intention is to make it, the result is always satisfying. ketheric Ltd. Podcasts, www.ketheric.com, PS-Magazine.com
newsletter on the importance and wide spread of podcasting. It seems that university students in the United States are going less to lecture halls, preferring to download lectures' video podcasts directly to their iPods! So much so, that iTunes has released a special free version catering to university students called iTunes U. The article warns that even the most captivating university lecturers, will loose their audience if they do not keep up with technology! Has free and accessible higher education started? Increasingly, we live in an age of information. Increasingly, we live in an age where time is a precious commodity. Increasingly, tailor made information, without spam or interruption, is becoming more valuable.Information provides knowledge. With knowledge comes wisdom. With wisdom consciousness (we) evolve. Podcasts by ketheric Ltd. please visit www.ketehric.com, www.PS-Magazine.com.
Julia’s journey in publishing started about 20 years ago, and includes working with Element Books, Penguin and Random House. Her track record includes UK no 1 and international bestsellers. She is now an independent Publishing Consultant and Creativity Coach; and author of: , which we will talk about shortly. In our previous interview in PS Magazine.com, you said that you are “passionate about the creative process as an expression of life and Truth.” Can you explain further to our listeners what do you mean by that? During my consultation sessions, I almost always make my clients aware that: creative energy, love energy, and money energy are one and the same, and that Creativity, love and money are interrelated. These three channels represent different aspects of the vital energy that we are connected to from birth, and that for a balanced holistic growth, we also need to explore and develop our creativity. Can you please explain to our listeners What is a creative coach? Julia, we first met I attended your workshop, The Writer’s Journey, at the Inner Potential Centre last. It was highly recommended by several of my clients whom I encouraged to attend, and in turn they thought I should go and experience it for myself! I did, and it did help to not only clarify my mind about the book I was going to write, but also to pin point it unique selling point. I found your book an easy, honest, and down right practical guide for those who are serious about getting their work ‘out there’. For our listeners who are not familiar with your book, can you tell us what is it about? And who would use your services? Finally, one thing that life has taught you?
Spirituality and food- Soul Food! Whenever my time allows, what I love watch ing on T.V. are mostly cookery programmes. If you see the eclectic collection of cookery books on my shelf, from Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, Eating For Beauty, by David Wolfe, to Claudia Roden’s Arabesque, you’d be a fool to think that I am an avid cook! But when my friend saw the newly released book, Sufi Cuisine by Nevin Halici, at the local public library, he knew that I would love it. In the foreword of the book, Claudia Roden writes: “it is a cultural history, a book of poetry, a culinary memoir and a collection of recipes. It also gives rare insight into the spiritual wisdom and philosophy that Rumi expressed through ecstatic love poetry seeking to unite humanity in love, respect and brotherhood”. In it, the author also describes how a Sufi’s initiation begins in the kitchen.As I go through ‘mine’, I must confess that although I am keen recipe collector, I never seem to stick to any, and I certainly never remember a favourite one. Why do I do it? Simply because it inspired me! Inspiration takes out the ‘o’ out of any culinary chore. At those moments, which are becoming more frequent, when I venture into the kitchen; the one recipe for culinary success I remember each time is an old prayer to the three cookery saints my mother always uses. No matter what the recipe requires, or whatever my intention is to make it, the result is always satisfying. ketheric Ltd. Podcasts, www.ketheric.com, PS-Magazine.com
Sahar Huneidi talks about changes facing planet Earth, the astrological start of the Age Of Aquarius, and James Lovelock's latest book, and final word, tntitled The Vanishing Face of Gaia in her Feb 09 Newsletter. podcasts by Ketheric Ltd. www.ketheric.com, www.PS-Magazine.com
Podcast interview with Silva method instructors on this mind development course founded by Jose Silva; for problem-solving, quick learning, healing, and self-improvement. The Silva Method is is The World's Leading Mind Technology Program. The Focused Thinking Programme is a system of dynamic meditation that offers practical formulas for solving problems, getting more out of life and reawakening your creativity and intuition. This is the only programme researched and developed by Jose Silva with millions of graduates world-wide and supported by one thousand Certified Silva Method Instructors. In this interview, I asked the directors:- How long does it take to achieve results?- What's your favourite Silva Method tool?- Do you offer a course for children?- How does the Silva Method improve creativity?- Are there 'celebrities' who have done the course?- How do you help NHS, nursing staff? www.silvamethod.co.uk , www.ketheric.com, www.PS-Magazine.com