Comments on: This Fan Is Good – Carol A. Strickland

By: Roger Klorese

Roger Klorese — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:58:58 +0000

Paul Gambi, actually. And his brother, Peter.

Paul was also music director of my college radio station about a decade before I was.

By: Paul Jones

Paul Jones — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:21:27 +0000

Many thanks to Carol for inspiring me to check out lots more comic sites (and even add my own worthless comments in some places here..) from a very nice reply I received last week after I sent an e-mail saying how good I thought her site was.

She really is such a nice person and amazingly knowledgable about comics too.

Another super DC and Marvel comics fan is Paul Gambaccini (wasn’t a character in “Flash” named “Paul Gambo” (or similar) in his honor?)

By: Carol Strickland

Carol Strickland — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:35:33 +0000

Hey, thanks for this. And thanks to Richard Bensam for alerting me to it, even though we BOTH missed Interlac’s thirtieth anniversary this month. Uh oh! (Happy birthday, Interlac!) I just wish I had a new computer and some more time to enlarge (and correct) my website. I mean, the world NEEDS my Super-Hip index!

These days comics seem a dreary, steroidy violence zone (with a few welcome exceptions), and I just want to remind people that now and then the medium produced some terrific fantasy material that entertained, excited, and yes, even inspired readers. I am convinced that comics can still do that. We don’t have to be mired in darkness forever.

Guess that means I’ll keep running my mouth on the DC MBs. And enlarging my site just as soon as money for that new computer arrives in my bank account. (Fairy godmother, where are you?) Until then, just google or dogpile and you’ll find lots of other websites out there from other devoted comics fans with an astounding amount of info to peruse.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:36:57 +0000

Yay Carol!

By: RAB

RAB — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:09:36 +0000

Tom and Mary Bierbaum declared me a “known subversive” — I believe it was in the second issue of their “five years later” story with Giffen.

(And BTW Michael, I put a link to your blog in one of my posts just a couple of days ago…small world!)

By: Michael G

Michael G — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:36:32 +0000

RAB – which issue were you written into? Did you get a character, a planet, or a sound-effect?

By: RAB

RAB — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:23:29 +0000

Strick was a good friend of mine for many years — hey, I was written into a Legion comic thanks to Interlac as well; that kind of thing creates an unbreakable bond — so I am unforgiveably biased in calling her one of the all-around nicest and most generous people I ever knew in fandom.

I think this may be a more up-to-date link to her website. But I regret that she never put any of her own art online, because in addition to everything else her comics and comics-inspired art was spectacularly good.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:49:40 +0000

Not to knock Carol’s status as uber LOC writer over the decades, but I hope you’ll provide a posthumous tribute to the king of them all, T.M. Maple, for your next column.