arlen schumer

I'm a comic book-style illustrator, an art director/copywriter, & published author/designer/lecturer on comic history, The Twilight Zone & Springsteen.

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IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, my webinar on the legend of JOHN HENRY, the folk figure based on a real-life ex-slave steelworker, one of so many who helped build the American railways in the late 19th Century:

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IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, my portrait of Buffalo Soldier CATHAY WILLIAMS, who was able to join the US Army after the Civil War ended because she was able to pass as a man--the only documented woman to serve in the Army during the Indian Wars.

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NEXT Wed Feb 18 @ 5:30pm EST

“DECONSTRUCTING THE TWILIGHT ZONE: ‘Walking Distance’” webinar via TZ historian @arlenschumer
& New York Adventure Club!

TIX: https://t.co/fAykz7K3Ch

CAN’T make it LIVE? Buy a ticket so you can watch a video recording of the webinar for 1 week!

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 @ 7:00pm EST:

“TECHNOLOGY & THE TWILIGHT ZONE,” a live multimedia presentation by ARLEN SCHUMER for the ART & TECH Committee of the National Arts Club in NYC!

15 Gramercy Park South

It's FREE, but REGISTER, seating is limited: https://t.co/nKJfrtrY4G

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THE PIC IS FROM 2016, WHAT I WROTE FROM 2000:

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TIME TO POST THIS ILLUSTRATION AGAIN!!!

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NEXT Wed 1/21 @ 5:30pmEST

DECONSTRUCTING THE TWILIGHT ZONE: "Where is Everybody?” webinar via NY Adventure Club & Arlen Schumer https://t.co/nZAM9y1A2p

TIX: https://t.co/36NtIdMmPB CAN’T make it LIVE? Buy a ticket so you can watch a video recording of the webinar for 1 week!

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TONITE @ 8pm EST:

“THE 60th ANNIVERSARY of the BATMAN TV Series” webinar via pop culture historian Arlen Schumer & NY Adventure Club

TIX: https://t.co/b9XQxcjFHP

CAN’T make it LIVE? Buy a ticket so you can watch a video recording of the webinar for 1 week!

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FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT:

May RENEE NICOLE GOOD, an American mother and widow MURDERED in cold blood by an ICE agent on 1/7/2026, be the Emmett Till of a NEW civil rights uprising to defeat the Trump administration and all its Republican lackeys.

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, NOVEMBER 12th, 2016:

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NEXT Monday January 12 @ 8pm EST

“THE 60th ANNIVERSARY of the BATMAN TV Series” webinar via pop culture historian Arlen Schumer & NY Adventure Club

TIX: https://t.co/b9XQxcjFHP

CAN’T make it LIVE? Buy a ticket so you can watch a video recording of the webinar for 1 week!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

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My article on the history of THE TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHONS:

"...these works of video art one might give to the aliens as the best TV earthmen ever made, are simply, as writer Hamner once said, '…great stories well told.'”

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Enjoy this video of my webinar "IT'S A POP CULTURE CHRISTMAS," in which I present an overview of a Baker's Dozen of beloved Christmas classics, in movies, television, animation, and comic books--some you know well, and some you don't:

https://t.co/BvxVF1690Y

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

My essay on the 1969 Neal Adams-illustrated Christmas classic, “The Silent Night of The Batman":

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NEXT Tuesday, December 23 @ 5:30pm EST:

“ANIMATING CHRISTMAS: 1962-1982” webinar via NY Adventure Club & pop culture historian Arlen Schumer!

TIX: https://t.co/26dRwHmuWU

CAN’T make it LIVE? Buy a ticket so you can watch a video recording of the webinar for 1 week!

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NEXT Tuesday, December 9 @ 5:30pm EST:

“THE 60th ANNIVERSARY of ‘A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS'” webinar via NY Adventure Club!

TIX: https://t.co/78KUR9qK7I

CAN’T make it LIVE? Buy a ticket so you can watch a video recording of the webinar for 1 week!

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MY BOOKS ARE THE GIFTS THAT KEEP ON GIVING! :)

Order by December 10th to ensure delivery by Christmas!

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