{"id":35673,"date":"2026-06-05T16:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=35673"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:50:34","slug":"35673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/06\/05\/35673\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, no posting today. Instead why not read or re-read our coverage of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/03\/17\/persepolis-the-story-of-a-childhood-persepolis-2-the-story-of-a-return\/\" target=\"_blank\">Persepolis &#8211; The Story of a Childhood &amp; Persepolis 2 &#8211; The Story of a Return<\/a> <\/strong>and ponder what a huge loss the death of Marjane Satrapi (announced yesterday) is to us all.<\/p>\n<p>Born today in 1905, <strong>Wayne Boring<\/strong> was inescapably typecast as the 1940s-1950s <strong>Superman<\/strong> artist, and shared his birthday with <strong>Vin Sullivan<\/strong> who limned and edited Action Comics #1. He arrived on his planet in 1911 whilst occasional <strong>Superman<\/strong> inker <strong>Frank Chiaremonte<\/strong> was born today in 1942. Today in 1970 artist <strong>Matthew Clark<\/strong> (<strong>Amazing Spider-Man<\/strong>, <strong>Wonder Woman<\/strong>, <strong>Doom Patrol<\/strong>) was born. He also has illustrated the Man of Tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pottsy<\/strong>, <em>Bozo Blimp<\/em> and <em>Willie Doodle<\/em> \u00a0cartoonist <strong>Jay Irving<\/strong> died on this date in 1970 and the date is remarkable for events such as the first episode of <strong>Warren Tufts<\/strong>\u2019 magnificent <strong>Lance<\/strong> in 1955; the publication of <strong>Amazing Fantasy<\/strong> #15 in 1962; the last episode of <strong>Stan Lynde<\/strong>\u2019s glorious strip <strong>Latigo<\/strong> in 1983 and, in 1987, the live performance\/re-enactment of Peter Parker\u2019s wedding to Mary Jane Watson at Shea Stadium, Queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, no posting today. Instead why not read or re-read our coverage of Persepolis &#8211; The Story of a Childhood &amp; Persepolis 2 &#8211; The Story of a Return and ponder what a huge loss the death of Marjane Satrapi (announced yesterday) is to us all. Born today in 1905, Wayne Boring was inescapably typecast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/06\/05\/35673\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4AFj-35673","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35674,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35673\/revisions\/35674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}