Paul Morton / Saul Salt
@paulwmorton.bsky.social
Writer on comics, animation. If you've never heard of what I'm talking about, I'm doing my job.
I'm writing his biography now. Here's my remembrance: lithub.com/this-will-be...
“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer
In the summer of 1946, Jules Feiffer, then 17, determined to make a career in comics, entered the studio of his hero Will Eisner. At 29, Eisner was an eminence in an industry that had just moved on…
lithub.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'm writing his biography now. Here's my remembrance: lithub.com/this-will-be...
I'm writing his biography for FG. Here's my remembrance: lithub.com/this-will-be...
“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer
In the summer of 1946, Jules Feiffer, then 17, determined to make a career in comics, entered the studio of his hero Will Eisner. At 29, Eisner was an eminence in an industry that had just moved on…
lithub.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm writing his biography for FG. Here's my remembrance: lithub.com/this-will-be...
I've seen that...and the opposite.
January 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I've seen that...and the opposite.
Love you! But, Marvel started telling this joke in the early 1970s, as I explain midway through this article: reactormag.com/how-peter-gi...
How Peter Gillis’ “What If Captain America Were Not Revived Until Today?” Speaks to Readers in 2024 - Reactor
A prescient warning from Cap.
reactormag.com
December 26, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Love you! But, Marvel started telling this joke in the early 1970s, as I explain midway through this article: reactormag.com/how-peter-gi...
Spider-Man bounded by Riverside, Morningside, Teacher's College and Labyrinth Bookstore. Spends most of the time in the Butler stacks, takes photographs for the Spec, avoids protests, annoyed his classmates don't do the reading in LitHum.
December 20, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Spider-Man bounded by Riverside, Morningside, Teacher's College and Labyrinth Bookstore. Spends most of the time in the Butler stacks, takes photographs for the Spec, avoids protests, annoyed his classmates don't do the reading in LitHum.
Agreed: A piece I wrote about it. lithub.com/parting-glan...
Parting Glances: Mourning the Work We Didn’t Get from Queer Director Bill Sherwood
It’s not clear when Bill Sherwood knew he was closer to the end of his life than the beginning. He was sure he had contracted HIV early on—at least he told some of his friends he was sure—though th…
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December 19, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Agreed: A piece I wrote about it. lithub.com/parting-glan...
States of Desire, The Line of Beauty, Waiting for the Barbarians, The Drowned and the Saved, Cancer Ward, In Search of Lost Time, Road to Wigan Pier, The Piazza Tales, War Without Mercy (Dower), The Return of the Native
December 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM
States of Desire, The Line of Beauty, Waiting for the Barbarians, The Drowned and the Saved, Cancer Ward, In Search of Lost Time, Road to Wigan Pier, The Piazza Tales, War Without Mercy (Dower), The Return of the Native
During World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, people played sports, went to movies, gardened, studied Latin.
As they did before and since, even now as billions live in abject poverty. We have a limited time on this earth. Make the most of it.
As they did before and since, even now as billions live in abject poverty. We have a limited time on this earth. Make the most of it.
December 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM
During World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, people played sports, went to movies, gardened, studied Latin.
As they did before and since, even now as billions live in abject poverty. We have a limited time on this earth. Make the most of it.
As they did before and since, even now as billions live in abject poverty. We have a limited time on this earth. Make the most of it.
FYI: The Conclusion of Bendis' initial final issue of USM (#133) was accompanied by a long-form interview conducted by me. I am pleased to be a small part of Spider-Man history.
December 16, 2024 at 9:28 PM
FYI: The Conclusion of Bendis' initial final issue of USM (#133) was accompanied by a long-form interview conducted by me. I am pleased to be a small part of Spider-Man history.
I wrote a piece about him earlier this year: reactormag.com/how-peter-gi...
How Peter Gillis’ “What If Captain America Were Not Revived Until Today?” Speaks to Readers in 2024 - Reactor
A prescient warning from Cap.
reactormag.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:19 PM
I wrote a piece about him earlier this year: reactormag.com/how-peter-gi...
Oh, she's really MAGA now.
December 12, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Oh, she's really MAGA now.
Flynn: Robin Hood
Fairbanks: Zorro
Stewart: Prof. X
But yes, it's up there.
Fairbanks: Zorro
Stewart: Prof. X
But yes, it's up there.
December 7, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Flynn: Robin Hood
Fairbanks: Zorro
Stewart: Prof. X
But yes, it's up there.
Fairbanks: Zorro
Stewart: Prof. X
But yes, it's up there.
If anything, it's one of life's great joys to take pleasure in words written long before you were born. I particularly dig the cocktail parties at Thomas Hardy's apartment. "Paul! May I introduce you to Eustacia Vye? You'll make wonderful frenemies...I mean friends."
November 23, 2024 at 7:39 PM
If anything, it's one of life's great joys to take pleasure in words written long before you were born. I particularly dig the cocktail parties at Thomas Hardy's apartment. "Paul! May I introduce you to Eustacia Vye? You'll make wonderful frenemies...I mean friends."
You're looking for blurbs? I'm not sure if there isn't a celebrity who doesn't like comics.
November 23, 2024 at 7:33 PM
You're looking for blurbs? I'm not sure if there isn't a celebrity who doesn't like comics.
The best list is from the 1940s-1970s: filmmakers Orson Welles, William Friedkin, Alain Resnais, Federico Fellini; writers Ken Kesey, Kenneth Koch, E.E. Cummings; Paul McCartney
November 23, 2024 at 3:23 PM
The best list is from the 1940s-1970s: filmmakers Orson Welles, William Friedkin, Alain Resnais, Federico Fellini; writers Ken Kesey, Kenneth Koch, E.E. Cummings; Paul McCartney
Still talk to the person you went to prom with? No, but I wish her well.
Did you skip school? Occasionally, but I don't remember doing anything interesting with my free time.
Did you skip school? Occasionally, but I don't remember doing anything interesting with my free time.
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Still talk to the person you went to prom with? No, but I wish her well.
Did you skip school? Occasionally, but I don't remember doing anything interesting with my free time.
Did you skip school? Occasionally, but I don't remember doing anything interesting with my free time.