Author Clifford Meth

When last seen, Jordan Raskin was in San Diego leaping backwards to get out of the way as Mark Texeira came crashing through the table, bringing several pitchers of beer and a plate of cheese...

My pal Milo likes to tease me about my statue obsession. He thinks I'm a sap. "I see you bought another action figure," he snides. "No, no," he says, correcting himself. "Not an action figure; a...

Paty Cockrum's recent column "Down in Flames, you Bastards" left gaggles of comics fans dropping e-post-its across the information super-sewing-circle regarding her accusations that certain...

Let's face it: When it comes to comics history, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Jew. Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joel Schuster were Jewish. So was Batman creator Bob Kane....

Gene Colan is still one of comics' three greatest artists. You can name the other two. And now one of comics' three greatest artists is the subject one of comics' greatest biographies, Secrets in the Shadows...

Gene Colan is still one of comics' three greatest artists. You can name the other two. And now one of comics' three greatest artists is the subject one of comics' greatest biographies, Secrets in...

I had a series of conversations about royalties today and as the evening smog settles over North Jersey, they're starting to jell. It went something like this: Dave and Paty Cockrum...

After the doctor said, "It's a boy!" it was all down hill for the next two weeks. But, if you're just tuning in, that's a feeble incipience, so try this: At 44, with my oldest son about to...

First off, let's get the moniker straight. A number of you have written to ask what my name is. Even Jason Brice, comics-webzine-and-storage-media guru, popped the question when I began writing Past Masters:...

Well, the bad news is the Wm. Messner-Loebs maternity auction never went off in San Diego, as previously announced. I spoke with Neal Adams after he'd decided to pull the plug and put things off...

There's a scene in Hunter Thompson's Hells Angels where a guy's vehicle breaks down on a deserted road. Just as he's wondering how to get to his destination, a band of bad-ass bikers come over the hill. They...

I'm still on the disabled list, folks. It's been two weeks since I ripped my left bicep and tore a ligament off the muscle while lifting weights; ten days since a doctor half my age (or perhaps...

 By Clifford Meth I'm typing this with one finger and it's painful. That's how much I love Randy Bowen's statues. Or maybe it's more than love. Maybe it's a fetish. Why one finger? I tore a...

 In 1938, as the strange visitor from another planet made his first appearance on ours, Joe Kubert wasn't even a bar-mitzvah yet. Nevertheless, he had already laid down his first professional...

May 11 was the first genuinely warm, sun-filled day that had blown into New Jersey all spring?the sky was cloudless, both New York baseball teams were on winning streaks, and I was...