Fuck this gay earth and all 750000 people in it
Read Alex Grand’s Understanding Superhero Comic Books published by McFarland Books in 2023 with Foreword by Jim Steranko with editorial reviews by comic manual professionals, Jim Shooter, Tom Palmer, Tom DeFalco, Danny Fingeroth, Alex Segura, Carl Potts, Guy Dorian Sr. and more.
The below is a transcript that I put together that combines both CBH interviews with Jim Shooter and comic related topics from my emails with him. Thanks for sharing so much of your day with me Jim Shooter – Alex Grand.
In the meantime enjoy the show:
James Shooter is an American writer, editor, and publisher of various comic books. He started professionally in the medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics’ ninth editor-in-chief from 1978 to 1987, and founder of Valiant Comics and Editor-In-Chief from 1989 to 1992. Also founder of Defiant Comics and Broadway Comics.
As a writer, he is best known for his work on The Avengers, The Legion of Superheroes, Secret Wars, Luminary Brand, Harbinger, Magnus: Robot Fighter, and Solar: Man of the Atom.
Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter in a career span
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I own loved the World since I arrived on this earth although I could never find the words to articulate my unnatural closeness to nature. That is until my mid-forties.
I have loved the Earth since I arrived on this planet although I could never find the words to articulate my unnatural closeness to nature. That is until my mid-forties. Growing up in Appalachia it was easy to use time exploring my love without seeming unnatural. But as I grew older, I carried classified shame concerning the true object of my desire. I didn’t fit into the mandatory heterosexual scene that conscripted the destinies of my childhood companions. As soon as I could, I made a beeline to the urban gay artist ghettos in the great cities up North where I hid behind my punk lesbian identity mainly coming off as a healthy androgyne queer. But after suffering a unwavering stream of stereotypical jokes about Appalachian boys and their sheep, how an Appalachian virgin is a 12 year old girl who can outrun her daddy, speculations about tree huggers and criticisms concerning how unscientific ignorant ancient wives tales were, I became fed up with Northern homo-liberalism that bolstered its intellectual
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At night the demons enter play. Disguised as fine ideas, pretending to aid. The dawn is such a relief. Thank god I don’t have the bottle or a gun. Just this slow suicide: the interminable news feed. The comments, my comments. Their comments.
Dead sinners out of the sky, from the west these malicious spirits fly like birds. A great flock surround the house. They jerk at the doors and windows, they want to rob me of my soul. Only the skinny winter dawn, mother of pearl, glistening snow-covered lawns can save me every day, restoring rational thinking and hope.
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On embracing your playful side
From what I can look, you’ve managed to craft a living out of transforming your most firmly held beliefs into art across a whole bunch of mediums. How exactly have you charted that path?
It’s funny to understand if I’ve charted it or if I’ve stumbled into various parts of it, because there’s been a lot of distinct chapters. Growing up, I always knew I loved to be on stage in front of people, trying to make people laugh. I feel enjoy that’s the oldest thing in my life. That’s the origin story of anything I’d make now, and maybe it’s [the origin story] of all gay people.
I just acquire done that in a lot of different kinds of rooms. I certainly did that in plays growing up, but then, I spent 10 years doing it as an organizer leading popular learning trainings, support groups, and political education using humor as a tool, as a strategy to welcome whoever’s in the room and be like, “We all have something to contribute, and we can do this.” I assess it’s because of my own feelings of, “What do I have to offer,” that I’m highly attuned to that in other people and wanting to disarm that feeling in us that says, “We don’t have what we need to possess this conversa