Mes: septiembre 2019

“Captain America” opens in theaters Friday across the U.S., but will the film keep comics alive? “Early Show” co-anchor Jeff Glor recently visited the man behind Marvel Comics — Editor in Chief Axel Alonso — to find out. Glor reports that, long before Captain America showed up in the 2011 summer film, he was seen on the cover of a Marvel comic book in the spring of 1941. Showing Glor the original comic, Alonso said, “These are little pieces of history you are holding in your hands here.” Pictures: “Captain America” debuts For more than 70 years, Marvel has been making comics, with writers and illustrators penning fantastic tales of good versus evil. Spider-Man, The Hulk and X-Men are just some of the company’s heroes. Alonso, pointing to characters in the comics, said, “That’s’ Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Magneto. … I couldn’t tell you who any of them were when I got the job.” That’s because the latest caretaker of Marvel’s famous characters is a guy who got into it by accident. “Working in comics was never a goal,” he said. “I went to Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, I wrote for a bunch of papers, but I actually answered an ad in The New York Times for editors at DC Comics. And I thought ‘Oh, I’d kinda like to check that out.”‘ After finding success at rival...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK – When you heard that Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine was appointed America’s new poet laureate, you probably wondered just what a poet laureate does. Well, for starters, he – or she – receives $35,000 and is known officially from October through May as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the U.S. The laureate has few official duties and poets before Levine have used the job to pursue a range of personal projects. For example, Billy Collins (2001-2003) started the Poetry 180 program which encourages the reading of verse in high school. The 180 refers to the 180 poems Collins selected for the program. Collins also wrote a poem to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and read it aloud at a special joint session of Congress on Sept 6, 2002. Another previous poet laureate, Robert Hass (1995-1997) went around the country lecturing on poetry and ecological awareness and organized a nationwide “Watershed” conference on nature writing. He also wrote a column about poetry for the Washington Post. What is Levine planning? “I don’t want to overextend myself, but at the same time I would like to use the ‘bully pulpit,’ as they call it, to bring attention to some of my concerns,” the 83-year-old poet told the Associated Press. “There’s a great deal of American poetry that’s hardly known and that should be known....