Daily Archives: 29 August 2007

Who Drew the Original Spider-Man?

articles and essays, comics and cartooningBy Matthias Wivel 29 August 2007

By Morten Søndergård [To mark what would have been Jack Kirby’s 90th birthday yesterday, we re-present this piece on the first Spider-Man stories, written for Rackham back in 2002 by Danish Marvel editor, translator, retailer and all-round specialist Morten Søndergård. Enjoy!] Who drew the original Spider-Man? There is of course only one answer, right? Steve…

Yellow Scholarship II

comics and cartooning, debateBy Matthias Wivel 29 August 2007

Tom Spurgeon has responded to my rodomontade on the Yellow Kid from yesterday. He writes: “I’m not all that convinced by Wivel’s restatement, and I find a lot of his rhetoric slippery. For one, I very obviously didn’t show in my original argument that Gary Groth is ignorant of 19th Century comics-making in favor of…