Scott and Irene’s world of tomorrow
As we rode the Spaceship Earth attraction at Walt Disney World during our 35th anniversary weekend, our pictures were snapped and dropped into a personalized video showing our future, which was...
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Our 2nd anniversary: 9/4/78 at Windows on the World
On September 4, 1978, Irene and I celebrated our second anniversary by having lunch at Windows on the World restaurant. It was part of an anniversary weekend that included a rented Rolls Royce,...
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It’s Irene’s birthday tomorrow, and as part of the weekend’s celebration, we’ll be driving to Richmond for a visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to catch their Fabergé exhibit. While we’re there,...
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Marie Severin’s ’70s Marvel Bullpen map
Todd Klein recently posted a wonderful report about a visit to DC Comics in the ’60s, which included a floor plan of the company’s offices at 575 Lexington Avenue, and made me realize—Hey! I have a map...
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Would you like to own a page of original 1968 Green Lantern art?
Last week, I told you how my wife was selling her copies of Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Adventures #1 so that in the far-flung future, we won’t be reduced to eating cat food. But … what if your...
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It was 38 years ago today (A fairy tale)
Thirty-eight years ago this morning, a guy looking something like this … … woke in the Brooklyn apartment he lived in with his parents and took a bus to a train to 575 Madison Avenue for his first day...
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7 photos from Chicago in lieu (for now anyway) of a trip report
Irene and I had a wonderful time in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend, a visit that was sparked entirely by my desire to experience Next restaurant’s transitory Kyoto menu. I’ll share more about it...
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Something I can’t quite figure out about romance cover art
Well, Valentine’s Day was this week, which means my thoughts turned to romance … romance comic books, that is. It reminded me of a dichotomy I noticed several years ago between the covers to romance...
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Read “The Wrong Kind of Guy!”
Earlier today, I told you about my hunt for a 30th anniversary gift that led me to purchase a page from Love Tales #73 (May 1957) for Irene, and it occurs to me you deserve to see the rest of the...
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An anniversary puzzle
In 1981, I had a commemorative coin minted to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my marriage to Irene Vartanoff. I was working for Psychology Today magazine at the time, where catalogs would...
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Happy 84th birthday, Marie Severin!
Last month, while I was off at San Diego Comic-Con, my wife was having a Comic-Con of her own. And while she was envious of my trip, I was even more envious of hers—because she got to spend the day...
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Hope springs eternal …
Yet another couple has discovered that years before they met, one of them had photobombed the other. Last time, it was a photo taken at Disneyland. This time, it was at the beach. This gives me hope....
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A comic book triptych (including another visit with Marie Severin)
Last weekend, I accompanied Irene to the New Jersey Romance Writers conference, but I didn’t hang around there with her. All of my fun occurred outside of New Jersey. And serendipitously, each of the...
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My wife is a Temporary Superheroine
Those of you who know me also know (mainly because I can’t stop singing her praises) that I’m married to comics legend (and cutie pie) Irene Vartanoff. Well, I have one more thing to shout about,...
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Here are four more ways you can read Temporary Superheroine
Last week, I told you all about my wife’s new comics-inspired novel, Temporary Superheroine, and how it was available for your Kindle. Which likely left some of you thinking, “But I don’t have a...
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Hey, look! My wife published another novel!
Back in March, my wife published her first novel, the comics-inspired Temporary Superheroine, and she’s now followed it up with something completely different—Captive of the Cattle Baron. Here’s the...
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June 24, 1974: The day that changed EVERYTHING
Forty-one years ago at just about this time of the morning, this guy (who was neither Amish nor an Abraham Lincoln impersonator) nervously arrived at 575 Madison Avenue for his first day on staff at...
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40 years ago today, 39 years ago today
I’d like to start your day with a fairy tale about a double anniversary. Once upon a time—actually forty years ago today, on September 4, 1975—this lad took a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula … … along...
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In which my wife’s first novel fails to deliver ironic commentary
My wife‘s first novel, Temporary Superheroine, a comic book style adventure, was just reviewed by Publishers Weekly, and the verdict was, well … read it for yourself. Considering PW hated, hated, hated...
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That time I tried to become George R. R. Martin’s publisher
While digging out that 44-year-old Analog rejection letter I shared with you, I also ran across one of my own letters, sent just a few years later, which speaks to the ambitions of me at 19. Because...
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