Christian Cooper

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. "Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World When birdwatching in New York’s most famous park one morning in May 2020, Christian Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old. But when a routine encounter with a dog walker devolved into a tense racial confrontation, Cooper’s video of the incident would spark a firestorm at a moment when America’s conscience on race was awakening. In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself. Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper’s story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding recounts Cooper’s journey through the wonderful world of birds and what they can teach us about life, if only we would look and listen.

Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Better Living Through Birding

Represent!#1

Len Kaminski

Howard Mackie

D. G. Chichester

Johnny Blaze and Dan Ketch race side-by-side as the Spirits of Vengeance, as Marvel's Midnight Sons rise to face a hellish threat like no other! Former Ghost Rider Blaze joins his successor Ketch and fellow Sons including Morbius, Blade, the Nightstalkers and the Darkhold Redeemers in the fight against Lilith, Mother of Demons, and her horrifying progeny! As they continue to burn rubber together, Blaze and Ghost Rider target Hag and Troll, but they're not the only ones on the trail. So is Venom! And where the sinister symbiote goes, can Spider-Man be far behind? COLLECTING: Ghost Rider (1990) 28, 31; Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992) 1-6; Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) 1; Darkhold: Pages From the Book of Sins (1992) 1; Nightstalkers (1992) 1; Web of Spider-Man (1985) 95-96; material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) 1

Spirits of Vengeance: Rise of the Midnight Sons

Klaus Janson

Andy Kubert

Ron Garney

Richard Case

Adam Kubert

D.G. Chichester

Ron Wagner

Alex Saviuk

I Figli della Mezzanotte devono affrontare la minaccia occulta definitiva! L’ex Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, dovrà unirsi a Dan Ketch, il suo tormentato successore, e ad altri “colleghi” soprannaturali quali Morbius, Blade, i Nightstalkers e i Redentori del Darkhold per cercare di bloccare le contorte macchinazioni di Lilith, la madre dei demoni, e della sua orribile progenie! Successivamente, Blaze e Ghost danno la caccia a Hag e Troll, ma non sono gli unici sulle loro tracce. Infatti, insieme a loro, alle calcagna dei due oscuri esseri c’è… Venom! Una saga che presenta la famiglia “horror” della Marvel, creata da alcuni dei più apprezzati talenti della Casa delle Idee degli anni 90 e disegnata da fuoriclasse assoluti come i fratelli Kubert, Ron Garney e Klaus Janson! [Contiene: Ghost Rider (1990) 28 e 31, Spirits of Vengeance (1992) 1-6, Web of Spider-Man (1985) 95-96, Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) 1, Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins (1992) 1, Nightstalkers (1992) 1, Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) 1]

L’alba dei Figli Della Mezzanotte

Spiriti della Vendetta (Marvel Collection)

Christian Cooper

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