Glen Weldon appears in the following:
Let's Lie To Celebrities: Questions For The New 'To Tell The Truth'
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
On A Dark Day, The Tonys Double Down On Joy — And Pride
Monday, June 13, 2016
How 'The Americans' Solved The Eternal TV Problem Of The Surly Teen
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen Is Mandrake The Magician! (... Wait, Who Now?)
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Free Comic Book Day 2016: Even Archie Has Something New To Say
Friday, May 06, 2016
The War Over Comics For Kids Is Nearly Over, And Kids Are Winning
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Yesterday the Library of Congress named graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang as its fifth National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Here's why that matters.
Yang joins the handful of notable, and notably prolific, authors of books for children and young adults who have served two-year terms since the Ambassadorship was ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour Small Batch: The End Of The Tour
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
The End Of The Tour is an odd little film, made more so by the fact that it's being rolled out at the height of summer, a span of the cinematic year not generally associated with talky two-handers about writers, writing and the wages of literary fame.
It's based on ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour Small Batch: Fantastic Four
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Well, that is a thing that happened.
Fantastic Four came out last weekend, only to encounter less-than-stellar reviews and box office. Our own Chris Klimek saw it for NPR.org and summed up its squandered potential with his usual nerd-cred eloquence, so I sat down with him for Pop Culture ...
French, English, Comics: Proust On Memory, In Any Language
Sunday, July 12, 2015
[Deep breath.]
So there's this new English translation of a French graphic novel adaptation of Swann's Way, the first of seven novels in Marcel Proust's masterwork, In Search of Lost Time.
Got all that? First there was the 1913 novel by Proust (in French!), then a graphic novel adaptation by ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour, Small Batch Edition: 'Terminator Genisys'
Tuesday, July 07, 2015
Faithful Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners know that contributor Chris Klimek is a lifelong action-movie enthusiast, but they may not know that he is, in particular, a Terminator movie connoisseur. Which is why, for this Small Batch edition, I asked him to Skype in from the Connecticut coastline, where he ...
After 25 Years, A Comics Publisher Pauses To Collect And Reflect
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Drawn and Quarterly, the Montreal-based publisher of comics and graphic novels, began life as a magazine, released in April of 1990. That first issue served as a de facto mission statement, laying out what the company would one day achieve on a grander scale – and what it would strive ...
Pop Culture Happy Hour Small Batch: 'Sense8'
Tuesday, June 09, 2015
In this Small Batch edition of Pop Culture Happy Hour, I sat down with promising NPR up-and-comer Audie Cornish to discuss the new Netflix streaming science-fiction series, Sense8.
The show's about a group of 8 people scattered across the globe who suddenly become mentally and emotionally connected, and the hijinks ...
Floating Eyeballs, Trained Bees: History's Most Cringeworthy Crusaders
Friday, June 05, 2015
Think about superheroes for a minute.
NO THANKS, you say. KIND OF SUPERHEROED OUT, you say. I'M TIRED OF BEING FORCE-FED AN ALL-SUPERHERO DIET IN MOVIES AND TV, SO ACTUALLY IT'D BE GREAT IF I COULD NOT THINK ABOUT THEM, AT ALL, FOR EVEN ONE LOUSY MINUTE, THANK YOU VERY ...
Small Batch: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Another sequel, another chance for Hollywood to hurl metal hither and yon and make with the flashy summer blockbuster blow-'em-ups. Yawn, right?
So you might think. But I asked Chris Klimek to help me unpack why so many critics are praising Mad Max: Fury Road as something altogether different. We ...
Free Comic Book Day: A Guide To The Heroes, Musicians And Mutants
Friday, May 01, 2015
Another first Saturday in May, another blockbuster superhero movie set to bust our collective blocks, another Free Comic Book Day.
"What's Free Comic Book Day?" you ask, because you've managed to ignore the gallons of virtual ink I've spilled about it on this blog every year since 2009.
(No look ...
The Comedy And Good Conversation Of Harris Wittels
Friday, February 20, 2015
Harris Wittels died Thursday. He was a stand-up comic, a television writer/producer, a musician, a frequent and dependably hilarious guest on comedy podcasts, and an author who unleashed the concept of the #humblebrag upon the cultural landscape.
He was 30 years old.
When anyone dies, our sadness is tinged with ...
Wolverine's Death: Superheroes And The Cycle Of Eternal Return
Sunday, October 12, 2014
A Hairy, Sardonic Fable In 'The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil'
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
(For stories are necessary lies.)
That statement comes as a seeming afterthought, tossed off at the bottom of the page toward the end of Stephen Collins' slyly exquisite graphic novel The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil. The book's absurdist narrative climax has come and gone, and in the quiet ...
Cyborgs, Simpsons And Ticks: All About Free Comic Book Day
Friday, May 02, 2014
Here's the drill: This Saturday, May 3rd, is Free Comic Book Day. Walk into a comics shop (you can find the one nearest you at www.freecomicbookday.com/storelocator), and they will hand you some free comics.
Not any comics in the store, mind you, but a selection of comics specifically produced ...
Moving Fables Of Gods, Men, Love And Monsters In 'Early Earth'
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Despite its title, British writer and illustrator Isabel Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is not mere history, with its assiduous accounting of dusty facts, but is instead a compendium of funny, sad and surprisingly moving fables from the pre-history of a world that exists only in Greenberg's febrile imagination ...