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henk-heijmans · 2 months

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Kids playing on a fence, Sutter Avenue, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, 1930's - by Joe Schwartz (1913 - 2013), American

#Joe Schwartz #New York #Brooklyn #Brownsville #Sutter Avenue #kids

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newyorkthegoldenage · 16 days

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This is what the Depression looked like: unemployed seamen by the Hudson River, 1930s. There are barge homes nearby.

Photo: Joe Schwartz via the Stephen Daiter Gallery

#vintage New York #1930s #Joe Schwartz #Great Depression #unemployed #jobless #seamen #unemployed seamen #barge homes

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federer7 · 5 months

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Shoe Shine Boy, 1930s

Photo: Joe Schwartz

#Joe Schwartz #shoe shine #Shoe Shine Boy #1930s #shine #shoe

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nanowrimo · 5 months

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30 Covers, 30 Days 2023: Day 14

Ready for Day 14's representive? Let's dive into an investigation in Thriller/Suspense novel Those Who Stay by Alex Wolfe! This cover was designed by the amazing returning designer, Joe Schwartz!

Those Who Stay

Harmless fiction becomes a gruesome reality when mystery author Jacob Fox finds himself at the center of a police investigation. A serial killer is on the loose in Seattle, replicating the murders in Jacob's novels. The detectives recruit him as a consultant to keep them a step ahead of the killer. Jacob is happy to help, especially if that means leading them away from his own secrets.

About the Author

Alex Wolfe has played many different roles in the world of writing, ranging from a technical writer, a managing editor of an arts journal, and a communications consultant specializing in social media. Their first foray into fiction was through fanfiction which eventually expanded into collections of short stories and novels. Those Who Stay is their second novel. Outside of writing, they enjoy art history, true crime, and going on road trips. Alex currently lives in Olympia, Washington.

About the Designer

Joe Schwartz is a New Jersey-based visual designer and educator. This is his sixth cover for NaNoWriMo and he couldn't be more honored to have been asked to participate again. A designer and art director in New Jersey and New York for over 30 years, Joe currently teaches History of Visual Communications at Kean University's Michael Graves College and classes in visual design and photography at Spotswood High School.

Cover Design Process:

This year. we gave designers the optional prompt to explain their design process for the cover! Here's Joe's:

The concept for this cover is based on peeling back layers of a mystery. As the story is centered around the landscapes in and around the Seattle area, it was important to create a sense of the vast geography of the area despite the small footprint that a book cover allows. It was also important to maintain a hint that the reader will be invited into the story of the serial killer with a motive to be discovered.

#nanowrimo #nano #30c30d #30 covers 30 days #thriller/suspense #design #joe schwartz #alex wolfe

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joeinct · 1 year

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Photo by Joe Schwartz, 1940s

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disease · 2 years

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“WAITING FOR THE STREET CAR” JOE SCHWARTZ // LA, 1950s [gelatin silver print | 35.7 × 27.5 cm.]

#joe schwartz #street #analog #film photography #black and white #monochrome #los angeles #50s #american #photography #u

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avadaniels · 1 year

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#fuck reboots make this instead!!!#ben schwartz #joe keery #andrew garfield

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38across · 11 months

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"And what's the thing at the end that you do? You do..." "It's like kiss-kiss. It's kiss-kiss, touch-touch. It's mom-son, it's mom and Joe."

#joe keery #ben schwartz #it's been a few days i'm still thinking abt this.......#him pulling away ... i would've taken that boop on the nose idk..#btw did we all know ben schwartz's middle name is joseph :-))#38*

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cantsayidont · 5 months

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October 1966. You can't keep a dead butler down. About two years after killing off Alfred the butler in 1964, editor Julius Schwartz was faced with a problem: William Dozier, the producer of the forthcoming Batman TV show, wanted to include Alfred in the show, and wanted him reintroduced into the comics as well! Schwartz and writer Gardner Fox struggled with this challenge and finally came up with the utterly preposterous story presented in the issue above.

Even for a Silver Age Gardner Fox comic book, this story is exceptionally convoluted, so it's best considered chronologically. We begin with a flashback sequence involving iconoclastic "all-around scientific genius" Brandon "Plot Device" Crawford:

This is already straining credulity a little because the story in DETECTIVE COMICS #328 in which Alfred died (helpfully recapped elsewhere in this issue) showed that he had been crushed to death by a giant boulder. That did not seem survivable at all, and even if it were, this would imply that neither Batman and Robin nor whatever doctor who filled out Alfred's death certificate nor the mortician noticed that he wasn't actually dead! Anyway …

So, Alfred wasn't actually dead, he wasn't embalmed, and he was buried in a refrigerated coffin (that's what the purple cylinders in the last panel previous page were for). A stretch, but we'll allow it. However, upon discovering this, Crawford, instead of calling an ambulance like a normal person, seizes on the opportunity to do some Frankenstein shit with Alfred's maimed, broken, mostly dead body, as one does (if one is a reclusive "radical individualist" who dropped out of college to pursue unorthodox, dubiously ethical scientific experiments, I guess).

One of the initial objects of Schwartz's tenure had been to rid the Batman books of the fantastical aliens, monsters, and bizarre transformations of the 1957–1963 period in favor of something a little more grounded. All that goes out the window here, despite the rather defensive editorial footnote, which says:

EDITOR'S NOTE: Physics professor Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality," has said that death can only be defined in relative terms. He points to the hundreds of persons revived after drowning, asphyxiation, electrocution, and heart attack. "Biological death depends not only on the state of the body," Ettinger says, "but also on the state of medical art!"

Okay, then. On to the Frankenstein shit:

So, Crawford's experimental cell regeneration machine has restored Alfred's broken body, but in the process transformed him into an unrecognizable, rather hideous-looking being who is also evil. Check! The regeneration effect we see Crawford panicking about then transforms him so that he looks like Alfred, while leaving him in "a catatonic trance." The Outsider, rather ungratefully, puts Crawford's unconscious body back in Alfred's coffin to cover his tracks, and uses Crawford's various machines and his own "increased mental power" in his new quest to destroy Batman and Robin.

This was not the first appearance of the Outsider, who had actually been hounding the Dynamic Duo on and off since DETECTIVE COMICS #334 two years earlier, although he had never appeared on-panel, and his identity had been a mystery. Where Schwartz originally intended to take that plotline is not clear (Schwartz's own account doesn't say, and Gardner Fox said later that he didn't think Schwartz had a solution in mind at the outset), but it doesn't seem likely that revealing the Outsider as Alfred was the plan, particularly since subsequent Outsider stories had shown that the villain had superhuman powers, including the ability to bring inanimate objects to life! In this story, the Outsider really does transform Robin into a wooden coffin, as the cover indicates — it's not a hypnotic illusion or some other such dodge. Fortunately, the effect is reversed after the villain is defeated:

Batman's determination to keep these events secret from Alfred is bizarre, since Alfred's death is a matter of public record: As seen in DETECTIVE COMICS #328, Bruce Wayne started a charitable foundation in Alfred's name, with its own building in Gotham City! Batman suggests that they can rename the charity the Wayne Foundation (as of course they subsequently did), but how he expects to resolve the various problems created by Alfred having been legally dead for months without his finding out is unclear. They do take the time to retrieve Crawford (who has miraculously not suffocated or starved to death in Alfred's coffin) and use his machine to return him to normal, after which Batman suggests that Bruce Wayne will give Crawford a job at the renamed foundation.

If you're wondering, "Wait, does this mean Alfred now had super-powers?" the answer is yes! Since he didn't retain any conscious memory of his death and resurrection, he was normally unaware of this, but Alfred's evil Outsider personality resurfaced several times, and he sometimes spontaneously reverted to the Outsider's form, in which he once again had supernatural abilities:

Notice the background, with the buildings burning like candles? The Outsider did that with his mental powers, along with a bunch of less grandiose but equally impossible feats. Fortunately, they reverted to normal after he split into separate good (Alfred) and evil (Outsider) selves and defeated himself. The Outsider resurfaced once more in 1985, battling the Outsiders and nearly killing Superman by transforming the Batcave's giant penny into Green Kryptonite.

I guess this whole saga did resolve the problem of resurrecting Alfred for the TV show, but in what I think can fairly be called the most ludicrous way possible. (And you thought the PENNYWORTH show spun out of GOTHAM was silly …)

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henk-heijmans · 4 days

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Subway security, Independent line "A" train, New York City, 1940s - by Joe Schwartz (1913 - 2013), American

#Joe Schwartz #New York City #train #subway

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newyorkthegoldenage · 8 months

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"Meeting of the Minds," Kingsboro Housing Project, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, 1940s.

Photo: Joe Schwartz via the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture

#vintage New York #1940s #Joe Schwartz #children #Kingsboro Housing Project #public housing #integration #vintage Brooklyn #vintage NYC

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federer7 · 8 months

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"Call Her 'The Feminist'". circa 1930s

Photo: Joe Schwartz

#joe schwartz #The Feminist #1930s

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nanowrimo · 1 year

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30 Covers, 30 Days 2022: Day 2

Welcome to day two of 30 Covers, 30 Days! Let’s go back to the 1700′s and meet Clara the rhinoceros in the Historical novel of R. Unicornis by Jillian Forsberg! This great cover was designed by returning designer, Joe Schwartz.

R. Unicornis

Based on true events. A Dutch sea captain decides to abandon his life with the VOC and takes his most precious cargo yet back to Europe: an Indian rhinoceros. His wondrous adventures traipse through Europe in the mid 18th century, and Clara the rhino inspires art, royalty, and science leaving a legacy of the rhinoceros unicornis unlike any other animal.

About the Author

Jillian Forsberg holds a masters in Public History from Wichita State University. Her passions include vintage dresses, empty museums, hand-written letters, gardening, and obscure histories waiting to be told. She lives in Wichita with her husband, daughter, and hairless cats. This is her first novel.

About the Designer

Joe Schwartz is honored to have been invited back to design a cover for NaNoWriMo - his fifth one! Joe is happiest when he's flexing his "design muscles" but when he's not creating, he is a design teacher at Spotswood High School and an adjunct professor of design history at Kean University's Michael Graves College, both in New Jersey. He is also the co-founder of DESIGN-ED, an education nonprofit that helps teachers and students use design as a tool for teaching and learning. A small portfolio of Joe's work (including past NaNoWriMo covers) can be found here.

#nanowrimo #nano #30c30d #30 Covers 30 Days #design #historical #joe schwartz #jillian forsberg

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joeinct · 2 years

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