What Mindy Newell Is Watching…

Mindy Newell

These days Mindy Newell knows that if she could do it all over again she’d have gone to college for screenwriting and film editing. Instead she became a nurse to please her parents and pleasing your parents was what it was all about for nice Jewish girls who graduated from high school in 1971. But the creative larva was in her soul, and when the cocoon broke and the butterfly emerged, it flew to DC’s New Talent Showcase program. Under the auspices of legendary editors Karen Berger, Len Wein, Julius Schwartz, Paul Levitz, and ComicMix’s own Robert Greenberger, Mindy learned the craft and art of writing comics, including Tales Of The Legion, V, Legionnaires 3, Amethyst, Lois Lane: When It Rains God Is Crying, and numerous other comics, including a Superman story based on a dream Mindy had as a child. She also worked on Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! and other independent comics. All this time Mindy continued to work as a nurse while being a single mom to her daughter Alixandra, until the late and dear Mark Gruenwald hired her as an assistant editor at Marvel, while writing stories of the Black Widow and Daredevil. She edited NFL Pro Action, a licensed kid’s magazine about football with the NFL until Marvel imploded in 1996. Returning to full-time nursing, she she also co-wrote a story for 2000 A.D. with her then-husband, British artist John Higgins. A few years ago Mike Gold called and asked her to join the team of columnists here at ComicMix, where her topics freely range from comics to pop culture to politics; she even wrote a piece about the great American thoroughbred Secretariat, which caused editor Mike to tell her that she had won the prize for the most off-topic column ever written ComicMix.

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3 Responses

  1. George Haberberger says:

    Mindy,
    Timeless reminds me a little of The Time Tunnel from 1966. You might be a bit too young to remember that. One of the first episodes, maybe THE first found the time travelers on the Titanic. Timeless-Hindenburg, Time Tunnel-Titanic. Tragedies have that built-in drama. I wonder if Timeless will deal with 9/11? It might be too soon.

    • Mindy Newell says:

      No, George, I’m not too young to remember TIME TUNNEL. (I would not be surprised if TPTB used it as one of their templates.)

      9/11? That would be a very interesting episode!!!! Wonder if TPTB would have the guts to do it?

    • Ray Tomczak says:

      Too soon? I don’t know. The only episode of Time Tunnel I’ve ever seen had the time travelers arriving at Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941. At the time, we weren’t much farther removed from the “day that will live in infamy” than we are now from 9/11.