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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

9 months

What's the book about, you ask?

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

2 years

Going through old photos; I took a picture of the TV on February 27, 2020.

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John Romita, 1930-2023

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"I read JAWS." In anticipation of Sam Wasson's book on Francis Ford Coppola, here's a bit of Coppola's 1975 conversation with Fidel Castro, 1975

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Carl Potts on the Punisher, 1999. "The Punisher was not someone to be admired and emulated. This was a pitiful human being we were writing about."

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One detail not showing up in obituaries is that loyal-to-the-company, tie-wearing, 9-to-5 professional John Romita quit comics in 1995 because Marvel was forcing him to personally fire employees (he compared the process to scenes from UP IN THE AIR). He was 65 years old.

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Pharoah Sanders at the Gem Spa, East Village, New York, 1965. Photo by Leni Sinclair.

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6 years

Steve Ditko presents Night of the Beans

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3 years

This message made my day.

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Sean Howe

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2 years

Kind of mesmerized by this, actually.

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Sean Howe

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HIGH NOON cinematographer Floyd Crosby, pictured with son, 1970

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Don Thompson's review of Watchmen #1 , for Comics Buyer's Guide, 1986. Imagine what it would be like to read this comic in advance of publication, before any critical consensus had been formed. [reposting with image in full]

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There is something about the Bantam edition of The Crying of Lot 49 that compels me to buy it every time I see a copy under $5.

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Joe Simon (1913-2011) and Jerry Robinson (1922-2011) at the New York Comic Convention in 2010. Even if you don't read comics, you know their creations, which include Captain America and The Joker.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

3 years

What are some good or great films that aren't "lost" exactly (they exist) but still almost impossible to see—not streaming, never released or long out of print on home video, etc.?

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@seanhowe

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Ten years! Wow.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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Alan Moore's Five Tips for Would-Be Comics Writers (1999)

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

2 years

That is a Ginger Baker portrait collage by Eve Babitz you are looking at. On the wall of Joan Didion's bathroom.

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Sean Howe

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Ernie Bushmiller

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Sean Howe

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A decade ago, a photographer at the Brooklyn Book Festival asked me to hold up a copy of my book. In the heat of the moment, I agreed, and now this smarmy mug is one of the first things that comes up if someone searches my name.

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Sean Howe

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5 years

Sherrill v. Knight is the case that CNN is using as precedent in its suit against the White House, on the matter of Jim Acosta's press credentials. There's a pretty wild part of that case that I don't think anyone has mentioned. Anyone know about the Rev. TK Forcade?

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

3 years

In 1972, after Stan Lee was named President and Publisher of Marvel Comics, he began courting a number of writers and artists who might bring something new to the company. One was Richard Corben.

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Sean Howe

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This is the astounding Bill Sienkiewicz ( @SienkiewiczArt ) cover for my forthcoming book, AGENTS OF CHAOS. It's the (almost unbelievable) story of Tom Forcade—political radical, marijuana smuggler, champion of journalist rights, and founder of High Times.

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Sean Howe

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"Ever notice how cinematic comic books are?" —Martin Scorsese, 1975

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

8 months

Had occasion to look at some old exchanges with Marvel's legal team.

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3 years

From the Batman newspaper strip, October 1946.

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Shang-Chi and Daredevil by Mike Mignola, 1983

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Sean Howe

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People would later talk about the "Superman curse," but this newly unearthed 1951 letter from Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel— mailed with mysterious white powder—actually invokes it.

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Sean Howe

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2 years

Absolutely outraged that Ken Burns' Benjamin Franklin documentary excised Doctor Strange and Clea

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Sean Howe

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This thing that I worked on for years has at last been materially contained.

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Sean Howe

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In 1973, it didn't matter who you were—the E Street Band, Steely Dan, or acid-dropping Marvel Comics creators—you had That Look

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EXCLUSIVE: In 1969, Stan Lee turned on a tape recorder and spoke candidly with Alain Resnais about the comics industry's exploitation of creators, how he didn't understand people who read comic books—and why he wanted to go to Hollywood with Jack Kirby.

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Sean Howe

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6 years

When I was working on Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Steve Ditko was kind enough to respond to my letter.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

1 year

It might be time to update my Marvel book.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

2 years

This could almost be a Tapestry parody.

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Just catching up on some emails this morning.

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Sean Howe

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1966: Someone hands Jack Kirby the already-completed cover of Tales of Suspense #76 and asks him to pretend he's working on it. The expression is priceless.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

5 years

I did a CTRL-F for Steve Gerber, got nothing, and closed the window.

Marvel & Hulu Ink Pact For ‘Howard The Duck’ Animated Series + More – TCA

As things with Netflix wind down, the Disney-owned comic giant is growing its relationship with the home of 'Runaways' & some big name scibes

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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@HeerJeet I just wrote this last week!

Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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The Big Fix is the missing link in the Long Goodbye > Big Lebowski > Inherent Vice chain.

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Sean Howe

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WAP cover by Frank Miller

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Sean Howe

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5 years

Thomas King Forcade (1945-1978) died forty years ago tomorrow. His legacy reaches in many directions. Rest in peace.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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"Steve Ditko declined to be photographed" Superman #400 contributors, 6/84: Will Eisner, Joe Orlando, Jerry Robinson, Terry Austin, Leonard Starr, Sal Amendola, Walter Simonson, Dick Giordano, Julius Schwartz, Howard Chaykin, Frank Miller, and John Byrne. Photo: Albert de Guzman.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

9 months

My new book, about High Times founder Thomas King Forçade (1945-1978), will be published one week from today. If you're interested in radical politics, drug wars, journalistic freedom, true crime, government surveillance, New York City in the 70s:

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

9 months

I spent more than seven years working on a book about the person in this photograph who is not @DanRather .

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Sean Howe

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Wow: Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, Jan Brunner, Steve Englehart, Tom Orzechowski and Mike Friedrich, early 1970s. Photo by Clay Geerdes.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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Chris Claremont, circa 1982

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Sean Howe

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@klg19 @selfstyledsiren November 22, 1938.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

3 years

Heavenly! A rare glimpse of the interior of MARVEL COMICS #1 (1939), thanks to a guy willing to 1) crack open the plastic slab, and 2) share a video. These pages are usually only seen via crummy microfiche or in drastically recolored form.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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This photograph of Lyndon Johnson's press secretary George Reedy kind of looks like a @sinKEVitch illustration.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

8 months

For the people who liked my Marvel book but aren't sure the one about the High Times founder is their thing, let me assure you that there are some comics anecdotes in here, too—they're just of a slightly different flavor.

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Sean Howe

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Stan Lee Intro From 1960's Animated Captain America TV Show - A jaw-dropping discovery by the G. Williams Jones Film & Video Collection of Southern Methodist University: crisp, color footage of Stan Lee promoting the new,...

Stan Lee Intro From 1960's Animated Captain America TV Show

16mm Collection A jaw-dropping discovery by the G. Williams Jones Film & Video Collection of Southern Methodist University: crisp, color footage of Stan Lee promoting the new, Grantray-Lewis-produc...

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

3 years

Archive alert: Interview! 1975-2010 In B&W, but still a great resource.

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Frank Miller and John Byrne on Jim Shooter, 1993

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“I would tell any cartoonist who has an idea, think twice before you give it to a publisher.” —Stan Lee, in a rare moment of candor about the comics industry, 1971

Jeet Heer

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In both Hollywood & comics there's an urgent conversation about how creative workers are treated. The story of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko shows how far back these issues go. #comicsbrokeme

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"I hope it super-bombs. I hope loyal SUPERMAN fans stay away from it in droves. I hope the whole world, becoming aware of the stench that surrounds SUPERMAN, will avoid the movie like a plague." —Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel puts a "curse on the SUPERMAN movie," 1975

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Robert Vaughn on James Coburn, circa The Magnificent Seven:

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John Romita working in the Marvel Bullpen, 1970. Photo by Steve Sherman.

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Sean Howe

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8 months

It seems that a few of the international editions of MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY have fallen out of print and are expensive in the second-hand market. If that's the case with your country/language, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

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Outra rede me informa que faz 10 anos que recebi meu exemplar de MARVEL COMIS: A HISTÓRIA SECRETA, de @seanhowe . Com certeza uma das minhas traduções mais importantes, pelo número de gente que cita. (Parece que a edição impressa está esgotada.)

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Sean Howe

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Substitute Heroes Clubhouse by Keith Giffen, 1983

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Iron Man and Spider-Man versus...weather.

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Bruce Lee rehearsing with James Garner, 1968.

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“If the movie is as good as the trailers we’ll be in business.” —Steve Gerber, prior to the release of Howard the Duck, 1986

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Sean Howe

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3 years

If you have $4.99 and 17 hours & 53 minutes to spend, I have an audiobook recommendation for you!

Marvel Comics

Odin’s beard! Discover the true story of Marvel Comics — from its humble beginnings to its current status as a mainstay of pop culture — in this “priceless” New York Times bestseller (Booklist) that...

www.chirpbooks.com

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Black Widow and the Wasp by Jaime Hernandez

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One of the 16 pages of captioned illustrations that I had to cut from my Marvel book at the last minute.

Sean Howe

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Had occasion to look at some old exchanges with Marvel's legal team.

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George Perez presents…WOGAN’S WUN, starring Yosemite Sam, Olive Oyl, Mr. Magoo, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd. 1977.

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Sean Howe

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1. Here's something I wrote about Marvel Comics artist (& playwright & stand-up comedian & actor & award-winning set designer) Billy Graham ("The Irreverent One"), who made important contributions to #LukeCage and #BlackPanther :

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Sean Howe

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Never seen this before: a 1986 NME interview with Alan Moore in which he calls the NATIONAL ENQUIRER his favorite magazine of all time: "My favourite story was definitely 'Space Aliens Are Stealing Our Pennies.'"

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2 years

rent-free

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Sean Howe

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8 months

It's publication day for AGENTS OF CHAOS, my book about High Times' mysterious founder, Tom Forcade! Started writing it in 2014; worked on it twice as long as I was enrolled in college. Please help me get word out that it is now available!

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Sean Howe

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3 years

And to think that the thrills of Andy Helfer & Kyle Baker's THE SHADOW have just been there waiting for anyone who wants them since 1988

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Two opinions I hold about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 1. It's the best superhero movie 2. It's the most visually inventive movie in history

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Nightcrawler by Marie Severin

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Neal Adams, labor organizer, 1978.

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@seanhowe

5 years

Further research revealed that the bureau hat privately concluded that Lennon did not, in fact, plan the “revolutionary activities” it had claimed. Twenty years after Forcade v. Knight was settled, the material it unearthed exonerated a Beatle.

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Sean Howe

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7 months

I know that it has this effect, and I'm sorry.

Oz The Mediocre

@OzTheMid

8 months

I finished Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe recently and I kind of needed it to marinate for a bit because while it's an incredible book and very informative, it's hard to think about the comic book industry as a great place after reading that

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Sean Howe

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(Oh, I forgot to mention that a member of the entourage was playing a cassette of "Ballad of a Thin Man" all through Forcade's speech. Great music supervision there.)

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Sean Howe

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3 years

This is why Namor is trending

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Sean Howe

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8 months

Have been remembering the time I wrote a short thing about Greta Gerwig for a certain Conde Nast publication in 2009 and the editor's first note was—I quote directly from the email I still have—"Cool. Can you give me a quick descrip of why she’s off-beat hot? Or straight up hot?"

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Sean Howe

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Forcade v. Knight was finally filed in April 1974. By that time, two interesting things had happened: 1. America learned that the Secret Service agent assigned to Forcade's case, Al Wong, had installed the recording system in Nixon’s Oval Office.

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Sean Howe

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3 years

Flashback to IRON MAN 3.

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Don't know why it took me so long to see Blue Collar, wow.

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The Baxter Building by Jack Kirby, 1963

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Black Panther's first appearance on television, 1983

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2. Forcade had assembled the first issue of the pro-marijuana magazine HIGH TIMES.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

9 months

You can read an exclusive excerpt from my new book, AGENTS OF CHAOS, in @RollingStone ! Please let me know what you think—this has been a long time coming!

How ‘High Times’ Became the ‘Playboy’ of Weed

Read an excerpt from Sean Howe's 'Agents of Chaos' about the origins of pro-pot media

www.rollingstone.com

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

2 years

From New York magazine's 1982 roundup of specialty bookstores: author holds her nose and describes how "lurid pictures of Daredevil and the Amazing Spider-Man line the walls" and "bespectacled young men can be heard" discussing the X-Men.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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Peter Falk, fashion model, 1965

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

5 years

Seeking seed capital for my new social media platform 3rocks, on which all the emoji shall be Nancy

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Sean Howe

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4 years

I'm Sean Howe and I approve this thread.

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@seanhowe

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“I don’t know what’s going on in the White House that they don’t want to let me in,” Tom Forcade said of the Nixon administration, in 1971. “It must be terrible.”

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

8 months

It was an enormous pleasure speaking with the @TrueAnonPod folks about Tom Forcade, High Times, the radical left, and the U.S. government. (And the introduction is truly hilarious.)

TrueAnon

@TrueAnonPod

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EPISODE 320: 👮‍♂️ HIGH TIMES AND MISDEMEANORS 🍃💨 We’re joined by author @seanhowe to talk about his new book "Agents of Chaos", which is about Tom Forcade, the Yippies, the Zippies, the feds, and the fakes. Lots in this episode 👁️ LISTEN HERE:

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The UPS concerned itself with, among other things, the ways in which police departments used obscenity and narcotics raids as a pretext for harassing subversive newspapers.

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⭐️starred review from Kirkus, for my new book! “A cautionary tale from the countercultural past, full of revolutionary glory and ugly criminality…. A fascinating resurrection from the dark side of the 1960s and ’70s.” AGENTS OF CHAOS is out August 29.

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Sean Howe

@seanhowe

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And then he hurled a cream pie into the face of a commission member.

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Sean Howe

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Here's an eerie feeling—listening to a 40-year-old archival interview, and the Q&A audio cuts out for three seconds as the voice of a third person they've been talking about, now in possession of the tape, whispers "you're wrong" before the interview cuts back in.

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Joe Shuster, Neal Adams, Jerry Siegel, Jerry Robinson.

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