Arlen’s Blog

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE webinar via NY Adventure Club next Wednesday, May 6 @ 8pm EST:

Whether you’ve bought his records, seen him live in concert, or caught a glimpse of him on TV, get ready to see Bruce Springsteen’s GREATEST video hits — in chronological order — including rare ones you might have never seen, culled from over 40 years worth of rare and hard-to-find footage!

Though musician Bruce Springsteen has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest live rock & roll performers in history, his rise to prominence during the pre-video 1970s has made it almost impossible to find film and videos of his greatest live performances.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE: AHEAD OF ITS TIME webinar via NY Adventure Club next Wednesday, April 29 @ 8pm EST:

“We can feed the stomach with concentrates. We can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort. We can pump oxygen in, and waste material out. But there’s one thing we can’t simulate, that’s a very basic need: man’s hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness. That’s one thing we haven’t licked yet.”

Those are the concluding words of Rod Serling — creator, head writer, narrator, and host of the legendary TV series The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-64) — said in the series’ debut episode where an astronaut-in-training hallucinates that he’s totally alone in a deserted American town.

If those words sound uncomfortably close to the quarantining we’re all experiencing now, it’s because Serling (1924-75) was a true visionary, a prescient prophet of the small screen, whose many Twilight Zone episodes dealt with the universal, timeless themes of isolation, loneliness, and solitude.

Join New York Adventure Club and Twilight Zone scholar Arlen Schumer as we embark on a journey through The Twilight Zone–via image and video excerpts–to see how the greatest television series of the 20th Century sheds a prescient light on the global pandemic of the 21st Century.

TIX: nyadventureclub.com

*And if you can’t make the webinar LIVE, buying a ticket allows you to watch a recording of it AFTER!

Video podcast interview with Judah Reed & Robo Strange of I FREAKING LOVE COMICS! Recorded 4/21/20: https://youtu.be/P5CK2FYB-ko

ART & COMIC BOOK ART webinar via NY Adventure Club next Wednesday, April 22 @ 8pm:

“Just as art historians look back 500 years ago on the great Renaissance masters of the human figure, so too will art historians 500 years from now look back on the great masters of the human figure of our time, our great comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane—to name but a few. Join comic book art historian Arlen Schumer (The Silver Age of Comic Book Art) as he compares and contrasts the great artists and artworks from the worlds of fine art and comic books, curating a fascinating journey through art…and comic book art!”

http://arlenschumer.com/illustration

Proud to have illustrated this for such a great cause! From their site:

We are very excited to announce our partnership with comic book-style illustrator Arlen Schumer and Nashville-based apparel manufacturer Authentically American. Please check out our new “HEROES OF HOPE” shirt on sale now…

YOUR FAMILY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET TOGETHER FOR PASSOVER SEDER THIS WEEK–but we can ALL get together VIRTUALLY as New York Adventure Club presents my WEBINAR on “JEWS & COMICS” this Thursday, April 9 @ 2pm EST!

We’ll explore the specific Jewish creations of the American superhero and its antecedents in older, ancient myths —from Ben Grimm to the Golem — as well as the significant contributions Jews have made to the medium of comic book art itself in the 20th & 21st Centuries!

TIX: eventbrite.com/e/jews-comics-webinar-by-comic-book-art-historian-arlen-schumer-registration-102025886172