Kevin Paul Shaw Broden - Four Names of Creativity

Author - Artist - Voice Over Actor

Tag: World War II

Memorial Day

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On May 27, 2025

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Yesterday, my family and I attended the Memorial Day Services at our local cemetery. We have been at it each year since I was a kid, not counting the Covid lockdown, we have only missed one year. This service has been going for 87 years and has always been an important part of the town.

Being at this service is very special and personal for our family. Many family members are buried at this cemetery, and several have served. A great cousin was in the First World War, and then my two uncles served in the Second World War. Both my uncles would have a son that would serve during the Vietnam War.

Only one of them returned to the family, the other is buried in the family cemetery along with his father and mother (who also served during WWII).

People like them fought and died for the rest of us.

We will always remember the sacrifices of all that served and died.

We know not what the future has instore, but we must live up to their memories.

Kevin

Everything Built to this FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY

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On February 5, 2025

In 2025, Animation, Blog, Blog writing, Childhood, Comic Book Artist, Comic Book Reader, Comic Book Writer, Comic Books, Comic-Con, San Diego Comic Con, ToastMasters, Toastmasters 4 Writers, Toastmasters Speech, Uncategorized, Webcomic

My career in comic has been a long and slow journey, but from the very beginning as a child I was creating my own super hero characters.

My first character I created was called… Captain Combo <cringe, I know> – I tried to draw a character that was partially every character I knew in the DC Universe – The Superman Shield, the bat symbol, Flash’s lightning bolt, the Dr. Fate’s helmet with Dr. Mid-Nite’s goggles, and so forth. It was really silly, and long before I discovered the android Amazo which was basically the same thing.

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Love of the Golden Age

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On January 18, 2025

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It first began by reprinting newspaper comic strips, and then it illustrated adventure stories had previously been in pulp novels and magazines, then the detectives put on masks and a man could leap tall buildings in a single bound. It was the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Golden Age of Super Heroes.

As mentioned previously, though I had read a few other comics, the first series I was committed to reading every issue was All-Star Squadron. A book that took place during that “Golden Age.”

I would discover and read other books at that time, some Justice League of America, Brave & and the Bold which would be replaced by Batman and the Outsiders, and The New Teen Titans.

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Education of Reading Comics

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On January 15, 2025

In 2025, Blog, Blog writing, Childhood, Comic Book Reader, Comic Book Writer, Comic Books, ToastMasters, Toastmasters 4 Writers, Toastmasters Speech, Writing

When I was young, during my Elementary School and Junior High years, I was struggling with reading. It was recommended to my parents that I should take further classes and have special tutors. One such tutor was in an after-school period on campus, while another one was off campus at a place called “The Reading Game.” These tutors helped me, but there was other help that I received that would improve my education.


It was during this period of time I first discovered comic books, as mentioned in my previous post, and I was regularly reading them… and I was reading them not just looking at the artwork (and I’ll tell you about the artwork and artists in a later post).


One day when my parents are having a ‘parent/teacher’ meeting with my special reading tutor to talk about how I was doing. They brought up the fact that I was reading comics, and asked if this was a good thing or should they take the comics away to have me read “real” books.

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