The 392nd meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7 pm ET. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public. 

Bob Levin on How did a guy who hadn’t read a comic in 35 years end up talking to you about them.

Bob Levin lives in Berkeley with his wife Adele. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, Penn Law School and the masters program in creative writing at San Francisco State. He represented injured workers in workers’ compensation cases for for 40 years and has been a contributing writer to The Comics Journal for about that long. His books include The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney’s War Against the Counterculture; Outlaws, Rebels, Free-thinkers, Pirates & Pornographers: Essays on Cartoons and Cartoonists; and Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester. His new collection Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, Mysteries & More, will be out shortly from FU Press.