My New Blog

Having written many articles over the years that have continued to be homeless I have decided to create a blog dedicated to my writing. It’s right next door. Come visit!

http://www.stevenbrowerwritings.wordpress.com

COMING IN 2012

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-Mort-Meskin/dp/1606995324/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Western-Comics-Steven-Brower/dp/1576875946/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Jerry Robinson 1922-2011

I had the honor of getting to know Jerry in recent years. He was a warm, funny and extremely generous man, a great comic artist and creator and an unflagging advocate for comic artist’s rights. He also recognized early on that comic art was just that and collected many pages beginning in the early 1940s that would have otherwise been destroyed, resulting in his touring museum show.

I first discovered Jerry when I was a kid. My dad used to bring home “The New York Daily News” everyday from work and I was an avid reader of all the comic strips and that included Jerry’s “Still Life” and “Life With Robinson’ strips. Unknown to me I was also reading the adventures of two other of his creations at the same time, “The Joker” and “Robin, The Boy Wonder.”

For me a personal highlight was his singing Woody’s “Union Maid” to me at his kitchen table.

Heartfelt condolences to his family.

Like many others, I am really going to miss him.

Great interview between Jerry and Gary Groth here:

http://www.tcj.com/jerry-robinson-been-there-done-that/

Peter Meskin with Jerry, Oct 21, 2004 in Atlanta at Jerry’s exhibit ZAP! POW! BAM! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1938-1950,” at The Breman Museum.

Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook

My cover for a songbook celebrating Woody’s centennial in 2012. I also designed the interior…well, not the sheet music. But I can read them and play!

BANG!

http://jbrowerartworks.deviantart.com/

SATCHMO SIGNING

I’ll be signing my SATCHMO book next Friday, October 14, 5 pm at Flushing Town Hall, for the opening reception of the exhibit “THE COLLAGE AESTHETIC OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG – In the Cause of Happiness.” If you are around come by and say hi. Free jazz concert with the Randy Sandke Trio to follow.

http://www.flushingtownhall.org/events/event.php?id=800

Late breaking great review

Amazing at the late date (one year after publication) a wonderful review for Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: “Brower’s well illustrated and short introduction…is the best brief history of printing and publishing that I’ve ever read. By itself, it makes up for the price of the book.”

Thank you Prof. George Elliot Clarke

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Books/1263737.html

THE MAN BEHIND THE TITLES

I have an article in the August issue of PRINT on the movie title designer Wayne Fitzgerald:

http://www.printmag.com/article/August-2011-TOC

Commencement

I had the honor of giving the commencement speech at the Art Institute of California-Inland Empire this past March, in front of an audience of approximately 1500. In the photo I am communicating to the graduates in a language they would understand by sending them all a text message.