FKA Abraham Riesman

Defunct blog. Follow here: abrahamic.tumblr.com

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On the off-chance that you’re still following me: I have decided to come back to Tumblr, now that Twitter is finally going to hell. But I’m using a new blog: abrahamic.tumblr.com

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This site is defunct!

Come visit me at my new website: abrahamriesman.com

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I profiled the all-too-often-forgotten third creator of Watchmen, colorist (and writer/artist in his own right) John Higgins.

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A yearslong informal conversation with showrunner Damon Lindelof culminated in a 90-minute interview with him about Watchmen, a show he seemed legitimately ashamed of making. And he earnestly thinks Alan Moore put a curse on him for making it.

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Wrote about Batman #251 and how it redefined the Joker, leading (for better or worse) to the new movie.

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Wrote a feature about the brutal specificity of Our Boys.

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Wrote a little remembrance about the late David Berman and his attempt to find solace in Judaism.

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There is a house In New Orleans Not the one you’ve heard about, I’m talkin’ ‘bout another house They spoke of gold in the cellar That a Spanish gentleman had left I broke in one hundred years ago with a dagger tucked in my vest Legends of gold, I tried to hold The grey half-light of the hallway at night One Two Three, four, five We’re trapped inside the song

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I will be moderating five panels at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. They are as follows:

Thursday, July 18, 5pm: The Business of Comics

Thursday, July 18, 7pm: Comics Anthologies, Demystified

Friday, July 19, 2pm: Spotlight on Ulli Lust

Friday, July 19, 4pm: Time, Memory, and Comics Storytelling

Saturday, July 20, 4:30pm: Valiant

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I ranked all 112 Lonely Island songs from worst to best for no particular reason.

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Wrote a feature about cartoonist KC Green’s fight to regain control of the This Is Fine Dog after it went viral.

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Wrote a post-mortem for the Marvel Netflix experiment.

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Wrote about what the pitiful ending of the X-Men film franchise tells us about how Hollywood capitalism eats its own.

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Wrote about the secret history of the brilliant decision to make Magneto retroactively Jewish.

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Wrote an essay about Brightburn and what we talk about when we talk about Evil Supermen.

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I went to Israel and the West Bank on the eve of the elections to investigate the battered Israeli left and see what Palestinians think about it. I was shaken by what I found.

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Last May, searching through the bargain bin in a Massachusetts comic shop, I stumbled across some work by a creator I’d never heard of: LB Lee. It turns out they’re actually eight-odd people living in one brain, struggling with dissociative identity disorder and making jaw-dropping comics about life, love, mental health, poverty, trauma, and growth. I tracked them down and wrote a profile.