Science fiction author Ray Bradbury dead at 91
NEW YORK – Ray Bradbury, a giant of American literature who helped popularize science fiction with works such as The Martian Chronicles , died on Tuesday at age 91, his publisher said on Wednesday.
Bradbury published more than 500 works including Fahrenheit 451 , a classic novel about book censorship in a future society, and other favourites such as The Illustrated Man and Something Wicked This Way Comes .
“Mr. Bradbury died peacefully, last night, in Los Angeles, after a long illness,” said a spokesman for his publisher, HarperCollins.
As a science fiction writer, Bradbury said he did not want to predict the […]
Archie, Marvel Comics introduce gay characters as culture changes
MICHAEL CAVNA
THE WASHINGTON POST
Jon Goldwater was riding his New York commuter train, just two weeks into his new job as co-chief executive of Archie Comics, when a fellow passenger tossed off a remark that blindsided him. The fresh executive had an Archie folder on his lap, Goldwater recounts,”when a woman sitting near me turned and said:’They still make those?!’ ” “It. Freaked. Me. Out,” Goldwater continues. “I almost got sick to my stomach.” Yet he also took home the underlying message from the encounter several years ago: “If we didn’t change Riverdale, we would risk becoming irrelevant.” Led […]
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