Nate San's Paper Gold blog

 

 

I got a note from Nate today saying that he's a local collector of comic books who has a newsletter where he writes about them.  His most recent post is a review of Awesome Con:

Awesome(?) Con

In which I kick off this year's con season

Nate Sans

Paper Gold Apr 12, 2025

https://natesans.substack.com/p/awesome-con

I have subscribed and I'd encourage you to do so as well. Here's some of the previous comics content that caught my attention:

 

 Media & Memory: An Ode to Trash Culture and the Pack Rat [Helen of Wyndhorn]
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jan 24, 2025
https://natesans.substack.com/p/media-and-memory

Two Reviews - Hollywood: The Oral History and MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Old Hollywood, New Hollywood, and Marvel Studios
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Oct 10, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/two-reviews-hollywood-the-oral-history

Adventures in comic art: Part One of >1 - An introduction to "The Hobby"
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jun 11, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/adventures-in-comic-art

Further adventures in comic art: Part Two - the whys of it all
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jun 25, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/further-adventures-in-comic-art

Tom King on his Dark Crisis Superman story

Dark Crisis: Tom King and Chris Burnham offer a spoilerly peek into Superman's prison

As the truth behind the Justice League's twisted imprisonment in Dark Crisis is revealed, Tom King and Chris Burnham detail Superman's twisted role in the crossover.

Interview by Sam Stone 

July 15, 2022

https://www.thepopverse.com/dc-dark-crisis-superman-creators-tom-king-chris-burnham-interview

Weldon reviews WandaVision

'WandaVision': The Next Era Of The MCU Will Be Televised 

Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour

January 15, 2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/956446267/wandavision-the-next-era-of-the-mcu-will-be-televised 

Tom King's Vision #1 examined on Shelfdust

Shelfdust Presents: The Vision #1 with Tiffany Babb

Date: July 6, 2020

https://shelfdust.com/2020/07/06/shelfdust-presents-the-vision-1-with-tiffany-babb/

R U NORMAL? On the Attempt to Normalize the Outsider in Vision #1

Date: July 6, 2020

https://shelfdust.com/2020/07/06/r-u-normal-on-the-attempt-to-normalize-the-outsider-in-vision/

March 7: Strange Adventures Signing w/ Tom King and Mitch Gerads at Fantom Comics

Update 3/4/20: Mitch Gerard won't attend due to illness.

MAR 7 2020

Strange Adventures Signing w/ Tom King and Mitch Gerads

https://www.facebook.com/events/221406155556619/

· Hosted by Fantom Comics

• Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

• Fantom Comics 2010 P St NW, 3rd Floor, Washington D.C. 20036 Tom King and Mitch Gerads reunite for Strange Adventures, telling the story of Adam Strange as a man of two worlds. We're happy to announce that Tom will be returning and Mitch will be here for the first time! Signing will follow a podcast discussion with Julian Lytle of IGNORANT BLISS. We ask that all attendees limit themselves to 2 items per person for signing with a possibility that the creators may have time to let folks back in line for other items. Strange Adventures #1 will be released Wednesday, 3/4 and is available for pre-order at Fantom Comics now!

Tom King interviewed on Mr. Miracle

MISTER MIRACLE creators Tom King & Mitch Gerads open up about their magnum opus on GRAPHIC NOVEL CLUB

 Alexander Lu

9/02/2019

https://www.comicsbeat.com/mister-miracle-creators-tom-king-and-mitch-gerads-open-up-about-their-magnum-opus-on-graphic-novel-club/

Tom King interview and news

Tom King on Heroes in Crisis, The Fan Reaction, and Wally West's Future
By RUSS BURLINGAME - May 23, 2019
https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/05/22/tom-king-on-heroes-in-crisis-the-fan-reaction-and-more/

and...

Tom King Co-Writing 'New Gods' Film With Ava DuVernay for Warner Bros. PicturesMary Anne Butler
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/05/29/tom-king-co-writing-new-gods-with-ava-duvernay/ 

Local comic books make more Best of 2016 lists

March and The Vision make this list -

Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2016

Rob Salkowitz ,  Dec 8, 2016

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2016/12/08/the-best-graphic-literature-of-2016/#2c17eaf414f2

 March, The Vision and Sheriff of Babylon make this list -

The 31 Most Interesting Comics of 2016

 Rich Barrett

Mental Floss December 2016

http://mentalfloss.com/article/89562/31-most-interesting-comics-2016

Nov. 9: King at Game On! Comics

Tom King, author of A Once Crowded Sky, will be at Game On! Comics and Games in Vienna, Va.,  Saturday from 12-3 p.m. Here is a neat video promoting the book that I don't recall seeing before.

Snyder, King and Hatke at Capicons

The bi-monthly Capicons con at Tyson's Corner saw a few new faces today. I picked up a couple of pieces of original art as a result (and blew my budget, but if you go to the show with friends, you can borrow money from them).



Baltimore County's John K Snyder III did this Shadow sketch with the money going to Hero Initiative charity. Keep an eye out on IDW's variant covers for the Shadow as John is doing one in 2013.

 

Front Royal's Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl original art for page 98. Zita's aimed at kids, but I like it a lot.

 

Ben Hatke's Zita the Spacegirl original art for chapter breaks. He tossed this one in after I bought the previous.

Washington's Tom King was signing his book A Once Crowded Sky, a novel about what happens when all the superheroes vanish, but the supervillains don't. I reviewed it for the City Paper and had the strange experience of seeing my words as a pull quote on his banner.  I liked the book enough to buy another copy for a comics-collecting buddy's Christmas present. King told me that some additional comic book news from him should come out this week - remind me to follow up if I don't post something here.