Mindy Newell: Days Of Yore

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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  1. George Haberberger says:

    I posted stats about Plsnned Parenthood’s dismal record of providing mammograms and Pap smears on Martha Thomases column on August 25th. Suffice to say PP is an abortion corporation. The numbers cited were from PP’s annual report. They are not distortions.

    Mindy correctly titled this column, “Days of Yore.” Exactly. Girls do not have to drop out of school today if they become pregnant. High schoolers can get married and still stay in school. Those scenarios did not justify abortion decades ago and there is even less justification for abortion today.

    So Jack and Jill’s perfect lives spiraled down after she got pregnant. Jack abused his wife and used herion. Otherwise I suppose he would have never had to face adversity of any kind. Good thing too, if that is how he deals with challenges. And Jill is blaming herself fir getting pregnant? That wasn’t entirely her doing. Mindy says she has no idea what happened to them… “Or their kids.” Well presumably their kids are alive. Something that cannot be said for Sally’s baby. She of course is happy and successful. Her child is not.

    Sorry to be such a wet blanket about this Kickstarter project, but silence is acceptance and abortion is not acceptable.