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  • Vox Pop
    Comics and cards 8/9/23
    Americans have been collecting sports cards and comics for over a century. Bill Townsend of Electric City Comics and Al Itskov of Al's House of Sports Cards join us once again to answer questions about your collection. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.
  • Monte Ward, New York Giants, baseball card portrait 1888-1889
    Vox Pop
    Comics and cards 1/18/23
    Bill Townsend of Electric City Comics and Al Itskov of Al's House of Sports Cards, both in Schenectady, New York, join Vox Pop to discuss comics and sports cards. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.
  • The Roundtable
    For aspiring supervillains - world domination is just A LOT of scientific expertise and gadgetry away
    Joe Donahue
    Author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North will tell us about his new book: "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" offers a step-by-step guide for aspiring comic-book style supervillains. As a writer for Marvel and DC Comics, Ryan North was tasked with inventing new and increasingly ambitious world-domination schemes each and every month. Ryan also wanted his schemes to be plausible, so he drew on his background in science (physics, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, computer programming, etc.) to figure out how to make them really work. The book shares his nine audacious, inadvisable, possibly affordable world-domination schemes, all inspired by comics and pulp fiction, and all backed up by real-life science and technology.
  • Book cover for "American Comics: A History"
    The Roundtable
    "American Comics: A History" by Jeremy Dauber
    Joe Donahue
    Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, and MacArthur Fellowship recipients, comics shape American culture, in ways high and low, superficial, and deeply profound.
  • Title artwork for the book "All the Marvels" by Douglas Wolk - red background, golden-yellow text with navy blue drop-shadow
    The Roundtable
    "All of the Marvels" By Douglas Wolk
    Joe Donahue
    Every schoolchild recognizes Marvel’s protagonists: Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men. Eighteen of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time, from Avengers: Endgame to Black Panther, draw from the Marvel comics. The Marvel narrative is also the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, with thousands of contributors.
  • a collage of marvel Avengers heros and baseball cards
    Vox Pop
    Comics And Sports Cards 4/14/21
    We’ll be discussing comics and sports cards today with Bill Townsend of Electric City Comics and Al Itskov of Al’s House of Sports Cards – both in…
  • Vox Pop
    Sports Cards And Comics 7/22/20
    Bill Townsend of Electric City Comics and Al Itskov of Al's House of Sports Cards, both in Schenectady, New York, join Vox Pop to discuss comics and…
  • Trenton Doyle Hancock and Frank Oz at MASS MoCA
    Arts & Culture
    Trenton Doyle Hancock "Mind Of The Mound: Critical Mass" At MASS MoCA Through 11/3
    Joe Donahue
    It is the final two weeks to visit and inhabit artist Trenton Doyle Hancock’s world of characters seen in drawings, paintings, and installations at MASS…
  • Vox Pop
    Sports Cards And Comics 7/9/19
    Bill Townsend of Electric City Comics and Al Itskov of Al's House of Sports Cards, both in Schenectady, New York, join Vox Pop to discuss comics and…
  • Vox Pop
    Sports Cards And Comics 4/9/19
    Bill Townsend of Electric City Comics and Al Itskov of Al's House of Sports Cards, both in Schenectady, New York, join Vox Pop to discuss comics and…
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