Silver Age comics art never looked this good, folks! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob A

Today's Guest: Arlen Schumer, grapher designer, comic book historian and author of The Silver Age of Comic Book Art.

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Arlen Schumer by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of comic book fans prone to arguing because only they can determine who the best artists truly were… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Wanna give your eyeballs a real treat?

Pick up a copy of Arlen Schumer’s The Silver Age of Comic Book Art – which was recently released in a revised edition – and turn to any page. And I mean any page.

Wherever your eyes go, they will discover a stunningly well curated tour through the DC and Marvel pop art of the 1960s -- the word balloons now filled not with superhero dialogue but with fine art narrative and discussion from Schumer and the artists themselves.
ARLEN SCHUMER podcast excerpt: "Why did Gene Colan make the cut over some other artists? Gene Colan, in his short Marvel career in 1966, does pretty definitive versions of three major characters: Sub-Mariner. Iron Man and Daredevil -- and you can even add his Doctor Strange -- the only Doctor Strange that can be spoken about on the same level as Steve Ditko's. And that's high praise."
You can LISTEN to this interview with ARLEN SCHUMER, author of THE SILVER AGE OF COMIC BOOK ART, by clicking the audio player above!

Here’s Steve Ditko on his ethereal Doctor Strange images: “Style is not what you do, but how you handle it... Whatever I draw doesn’t have to look like anything that ever existed.”

Think The Flash looks pretty cool as depicted on The CW TV series? Check out Carmine Infantino’s take on the Scarlet Speedster in the 1960s and hear about him in the artist’s own words: “Movement – that’s what The Flash was all about, that’s what made the character! He was tough to do because of the constant speed! Eve