Welcome
Welcome to Comic Book Historians, an Online Fanzine. I’m Alex Grand and we’re dedicated to creating a multimedia experience to learning the intricacies of Journalistic Comic Book History, to fit the comic books and strips that we know and love into a visual historical context. Who created what? Why was it created? Where did all these stories and characters come from? What do they tell about our country or world at those points in time? Why does that matter? If these characters weren’t always this way, how did they get created? This is a place where research is presented with facts in an overall picture to get at the truth whether it’s an Article, Podcast, Interactive Facebook group, Instagram or YouTube Channel.
Meet CBH Founder & Historian Alex Grand…
I am a Comic Book Historian, Panelist, Consultant and Motion Comics Animator featured on The Today Show, CGTN America Cable Network, The Life According to Stan Lee Documentary, Kasafilm’s Documentary on Marko Djurdjevic, contributer & speaker on both the Marvel Lego Art soundtrack & the Russo Bros produced Docu-Series narrated by Kevin Smith, Slugfest: Marvel vs DC, written creator bio’s in graphic novels, consultant to Harvey Comics’ Ghost Empire Documentary, published in The Jack Kirby Collector, and am writer and creator of the Journey Into Mexico comic series. My work is quoted or sourced in various media such as those in Disney Plus Marvel 616, The Wall Street Journal, The Comics Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Comic Book Resources, Bleeding Cool News, PreviewsWorld, The Sydney Morning Herald, Comics Beat, 13th Dimension, Quality Comix, Grand Comics Database, Wikipedia and am featured in the Walter Day Comic Book History Card Collection and consulted for ‘ĄBoom!’ tv quiz show in Spain. I wrote an extensive Foreword in the critically acclaimed Graphic Novel, COR: Controlled Organic Robotics for PKMM Entertainment, contributed images to Alter Ego & DC Comics Before Superman as well as supplied educational videos to San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum. I have been interviewed for various national and college radio shows like UK’s talkRADIO and WVCR 88.3FM in New York, appeared on convention panels ranging from the Dallas Fantasy Fair to San Diego Comic Con International and the notably Academic Comics Arts Conference.
My Motion Comics are featured on Amazon Prime, and I founded / administrate Comic Book Historians, a YouTube Docuseries Channel, 10,000 member Facebook group, blogger, and the Journalistic CBH Podcast. I have a Bachelors in Visual Arts and am a comic reader since age 4.
Check out the Motion Comic trailer of Alex Grand & Sebastián Guidobono’s 4-issue comic book mini-series Journey Into Mexico (2021) available in both English & Spanish in graphic novel, or comic book 1,2,3,4 and e-book:
CBH’s Alex Grand is quoted in the Hollywood Reporter on Creator Rights in the Comic Book Industry.
CBH’s Alex Grand is quoted in the Wall Street Journal on how financial and personal struggle was at the heart of Marvel Comics in the 1960s, and how that’s introduced into the MCU in Falcon and Winter Soldier 2021.
CBH’s Alex Grand joins Roy Thomas, Maggie Thompson, and Tom Brevoort in discussing Marvel in the 1960s and Iron Man in the soundtrack for Lego Art’s Iron Man:
CBH’s Alex Grand is in the Russo Brothers Comic history Docu-drama series Slugfest: Marvel vs DC narrated by Kevin Smith with an all-star cast & first episode premiering at NY Comic Con 2020 coming to ROKU:
Alex Grand writes his report and discussion of the goings on, and ramifications of the Steve Ditko Convention 2021 that occurred at Johnstown, PA.
CBH’s Alex Grand on Cable Network Channel, CGTN America’s show, The Heat discussing Avengers Endgame from a Comic History Perspective:
CBH’s Alex Grand was on the Today Show discussing comics reflection of the national consciousness in 2020:
Alex Grand’s Foreword to innovative Graphic Novel COR found at shop.pkmm.com:
Check out the CBH Docuseries on YouTube by Alex Grand:
CBH and Globo Comico partner for 2019 San Diego Comic Con Panel, “Seduction of the Immigrant: Filipino and Spanish Artists of 1970s American Comics”
CBH’s Alex Grand & Jim Thompson are highlighted here in Bleeding Cool News for their Career spanning podcast interview of Diamond Comics Distributor President, Steve Geppi.
CBH’s Alex Grand wrote the obituary for Comics Interview Publisher and Marvel alumnus, David Anthony Kraft in The Comics Journal 2021
Check Out what CBH’s Alex Grand has to say about two important comics on Quality Comix list of …
CBH’s Alex Grand interviewed about the history of the Comic Book on the Transatlantic Podcast (2020).
CBH’s Alex Grand is interviewed by Justin Kenyon for his Calling Out Controversy Podcast on Castbox.fm in 2 episodes.
CBH’s Alex Grand is included in the Walter Day Comic Book History trading card collection:
CBH’s Alex Grand was a keynote speaker for ARMA Nebraska Seminar 2021:
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*Contact CBH at comicbookhistorians@gmail.com
Meet Genre Scholar & Historian Jim Thompson…
I am a lawyer and an academic (a double black mark to some). I taught film/genre theory for Duke University for 15 years, but managed to sneak in the study of comics every chance I had, and am an Eisner Judge for the year 2021. More importantly,
I READ comics – old ones, new ones, American and foreign, super hero and experimental. I currently co-moderate the Comic Book Historians Facebook Group, co-host the Journalistic CBH Podcast and panel at Comic Conventions and Academic Conferences in between divorcing clients and professoring to a single student – my eight year old. Link to CBH blog by Jim.
A sit down chat between Alex Grand & the late Steve Ditko’s nephew, Mark on various key aspects of the Spider-Man co-creators life, characters and motivations in this career spanning interview including rare and unseen photos and footage.
Jim Steranko & Alex Grand chat and take the listener into his biography in The Steranko Experience (2018):
CBH’s Alex Grand & Jim Thompson definitively interview Jim Shooter about his extensive career:
CBH’s Alex Grand & Bill Field Interview Neal Adams in a career retrospective.
CBH’s Alex Grand & Jim Thompson Interview Roy Thomas about finding himself in the Marvel Age
Alex Grand & Jim Thompson write a Frank Thorne retrospective with the man himself, shortly before his death in this CBH Publication available on kindle & online book retailers rated 9/10 at comicon.
Check out CBH’s Alex Grand, with Larry Hama, Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Thomas Jane, and Cartoon Art Museum’s Andrew Farago in the trailer for Life According to Stan Lee, a documentary that aired about the Marvel Comics co-creator:
CBH’s Alex Grand is interviewed by UK talkRADIO host, Paul Ross about the historical importance of Marvel Comics 1000
CBH’s Jim Thompson interviewed by Scoop:
Click to see LEGO and Marvel’s press release for their innovative new toy project with accompanying soundtrack which includes comic expert interviews with former Marvel Editor in Chief, Roy Thomas and CBH’s Alex Grand.
See CBH’s Jim Thompson in the trailer for the Harvey Comics Documentary, Ghost Empire:
and another Alex Grand Motion Comic depicting Marvel Universe co-creator, Steve Ditko’s Space Adventures, 1960 or watch in 4k on Amazon Prime:
Captain Adam’s adventures continue in new CBH Motion Comic written & animated by Alex Grand also found in 4k on Amazon Prime:
CBH’s Alex Grand wrote the mini-bio of Sal Buscema in the creator section of John Carpenter’s Hyperbreed by Guy Dorian Sr & Louise Simonson:
CBH’s Alex Grand & Jim Thompson interview Silver Age Inker Tom Palmer on his extensive biographical career:
Check out CBH’s Recent Motion Comic with Marvel Universe co-creator Jack Kirby’s 1950s, The Thing on Sputnik 4 animated by Alex Grand:
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