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Return to the hulking barbarian and the diminutive rogue as they battle swordsmen, necromancers, and flagons of strong drink! The comics adaptation of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser returns to print in an omnibus format from Dark Horse Books, containing the series Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser:[...]

Writer/director/producer Lawrence O'Neil, best known for the movies Breast Men and Throwing Down was the son of Dennis O'Neil who died one year ago And in today's Green Lantern 80th Anniversary Edition, with Batman artist Jorge Fornes, creates a truly remarkable tribute to his father, telling his life with hardly a single word, yet using[...]

ComicConnect has been running the Denny O'Neil Estate Collection session of the March Mega Monthly Auction but this had to be the prize item of the

ComicConnect has been running the Denny O'Neil Estate Collection session of the March Mega Monthly Auction but this has to be the prize item of the

This week, Marvel and DC Comics published tributes to Dennis O'Neil, with a legendary career n comic books for both publishers and more Here is how both publishers remember him as writer and editor, but at Bleeding Cool we will remember him most as an educator. "Demonstrate for me possibilities I've never thought of and present[...]

Last week, we learned of the death of the late, great, Dennis O'Neil So many have had things to say about his impact on their live, their career and the comic book artform Here are just a few from some of the biggest names in comics We begin with Neal Adams, his long-standing collaborator on[...]

One of the most well regarded comic book writers and editors of all time, Dennis O'Neil died last night, of natural causes, at the age of 81. Born in 1939 in St Louis, Missouri, he graduated from St Louis University with a degree centred on English literature, creative writing, and philosophy From there he joined the US[...]

By Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams, from mid-seventies Green Lantern. At its heart, it wondered why superheroes allowed injustices to continue under their noses. Well, today's Cyborg #1 by David Walker and Ivan Reis does something similar The comic stars a man whose life has been saved, twice, by a transforming cyborg infusion which, with this issue, has seen[...]

Bane — Comic writer Dennis O'Neil paved the way for the Bane character with his Venom comic series — a series which sees Batman become addicted to an experimental drug that has been engineered by government officials to turn people into mindless killing machines The drug that Batman becomes addicted to is the very same[...]

Dennis O'Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor He's best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies,  Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing  Batman-related titles in the nineties A widely published novelist and screenwriter, he is currently lecturing at the NYU on[...]

Dennis O'Neil, returns to New York University every Wednesday, for his evening class on writing comic books and graphic novels at the university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He's already written a string of columns in line with his teaching on Bleeding Cool And now he's writing some more… And we're very happy to look[...]

Dennis O'Neil, returns to New York University every Wednesday, for his evening class on writing comic books and graphic novels at the university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He's already written a string of columns in line with his teaching on Bleeding Cool And now he's writing some more… Last week, I promised that this week[...]

Dennis O'Neil, returns to New York University every Wednesday, for his evening class on writing comic books and graphic novels at the university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He's already written a string of columns in line with his teaching on Bleeding Cool And now he's writing some more… Let us pause in our busy lives[...]

Dennis O'Neil, returns to New York University every Wednesday, for his evening class on writing comic books and graphic novels at the university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He's already written a string of columns in line with his teaching on Bleeding Cool And now he's writing some more… I don't assign reading to the comics[...]

Dennis O'Neil, returns to New York University every Wednesday, for his evening class on writing comic books and graphic novels at the university's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He's already written a string of columns in line with his teaching on Bleeding Cool And now he's going to write some more… Lesson one: I can't teach[...]

And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. Amen, say I <em>Dennis O'Neil has just finished teaching a ten week course on <a href="http://www.scps.nyu.edu/course-detail/X32.9372/20111/writing-comics-and-graphic-novels">Writing Comics And Graphic Novels</a> at the New York University[...]

The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow." Okay, so much for the history lesson, and by the way…why did I indulge in the memory lane trek, anyway? Isn't this whatever-it-is supposed to be about writing? Well: suspect that imaginary stories, in one form or another,[...]

You don't want Queen Elizabeth taking like the Hulk.)  Do some fussing around. Finally: You may have to write some transitional captions or other kinds of bread-and-potatoes stuff.  Remember that, although an adaptation, your story should be well and clearly told.  Then act appropriately. Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels[...]

(Maybe, if you catch me in a contentious mood, I'd even argue that Lois Lane's uberplot involved discovering Superman's secret identity.)  Maybe we could consider using it more often in comics, to answer complaints that it's hard to get into a story when what you're looking at is a middle section entry in a long,[...]

Those readers are putting your kid through college—not nice to annoy them. There is abroad in the land a strange hybrid of serial and complete-in-one episode story.  You might see an  example on television today, or even see it discussed here next week. Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at[...]

The first line of Hemingway's story "Light of the World" is a hook:  "When the bartender saw us come in he put the cover on the free lunch counter."  Gives you a lot of info in 16 words and presents you with an unstated question that you'll probably want to answer by continuing to read. [...]

Next week, we'll have a look at O'Neil's Industrial Strength Can't Fail Super Homogenized structure for a single-issue superhero story and from there, we'll proceed on to other kinds of structures.  Kindly remain on the tenterhooks… Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at the New York University[...]

Dennis O'Neil has a long history in the comics industry as both a writer and editor He's best known for writing Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman, through the seventies, Spider-Man in the eighties and for editing Batman-related titles in the nineties A widely published novelist and screenwriter, he is currently lecturing[...]

We grope around until we find something that works for us and we use it until it doesn't and then we grope some more. My favorite mantra: There is seldom any one absolutely, inarguable, unimpeachably right way to do anything. There's just the way, whatever it might be, that's okay for here and[...]

You don't want to bore your readers with irrelevancies and you don't want to distract them from narrative elements that are important. My, my, and aren't I just the little doctrinaire munchkin during the holiday season! Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at the New York University Classes[...]

Which means that you are not as important as the story and neither are your writers.  Of course, the story wouldn't exist without them, and I'm not suggesting that we eliminate editors from the process, either; it's nice having a backstop.  But getting the best possible story, given constraints of talent and circumstance–that's the prize. Dennis[...]

(And later writers who chose to emphasize other aspects were also doing a proper job.) But ickiness for the sake of ickiness? Maybe best not to try this at home. Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at the New York University Classes are every Wednesday evening from 6.45pm to 9pm.[...]

The Fantastic Four's Thing might solve a crime by bashing someone while Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot might solve the same crime by mentation–employing those "little gray cells" he was so fond of. We'll return to character-building next time. Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at the New York University[...]

There's what works here and now, in these circumstances, and what doesn't. Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at the New York University Classes are every Wednesday evening from 6.45pm to 9pm For further information, please call NYU's School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Studies at 212[...]

But a new ending must be as logical, and at least seem to be as inevitable, as the original. Next week, springboards. Dennis O'Neil teaches a ten week course on Writing Comics And Graphic Novels at the New York University Classes are every Wednesday evening from 6.45pm to 9pm For further information, please call NYU's School of[...]