At Festival 451indy, we’ll be screening the 1953 film It Came From Outer Space, a classic science fiction movie from a screen story written by Ray Bradbury. It was the first time Ray had been commissioned to write for the movies, and it happened in a very busy year for him. 1953 was not only the year …
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Ray Bradbury grew up reading and collecting comics, and so he was simultaneously angered and flattered to discover that EC Comics in the 1950s were adapting his stories without permission. Once an amicable solution had been found, he encouraged EC to continue, so that dozens of his stories ended up in the pages of Vault of …
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Jason: Welcome, friends, to our May edition of From the Archive. We’re doing something a little different for this particular issue. Obviously, we decided to record a video for you. Max and I are here in one of our ancillary collections. This is our massive comic book collection that we received from Dr. William Touponce’s …
Read MoreWhile Ray Bradbury was certainly seen as creative for his many writing endeavors including short stories, novels, screenplays, and even operas—many don’t know he was also passionate about art. He was a big fan of comics in his youth and often illustrated his own stories to continue the adventures of heroes like Tarzan and Buck Rogers. Later …
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The first time I read The Martian Chronicles, one story stood out in particular. “Night Meeting” is a story about a human, Tomas, and a Martian passing each other on a highway – but they are also passing each other in time. Both able to see their own destination clearly, but their counterparts’ destination in …
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“And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full” …
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