In the latest in what feels like a surreal sequence of events in my working life, my name appears prominently multiple times in an essay in the just-released issue of the New York Review of Books. The foreword that Michael Chabon wrote for How Comics Were Made was picked up by the NYRB as a standalone essay for its Holiday Issue, which is already online. (You can register at no cost to read a single article.) I thought the foreword might be rewritten a bit to detach the context from my book. ...
