Are you a journalist, a writer, a die-hard Fan, or a comics pro with something to add about the life and work of Dan DeCarlo? Perhaps you use some of Dan’s work as a teaching aid or had a personal connection with the DeCarlo family. We’d like to invite you to submit written work to appear on this web site.

We’re especially interested in pieces dealing with how Dan’s work influenced popular culture – and how popular culture influenced Dan’s work, from Irma of My Friend Irma fame campaigning for folks to buy Savings Bonds to the Archie gang promoting recycling.

How did the Comics code affect comics in general and teen comics in particular?

What do we really know about Frederic Wertham? Many people cast him as the villain who nearly killed comics, but he carried on a friendly correspondence with Milt Caniff and later in his life wrote warmly about fandom. Marc Evanier even wrote an interesting book suggesting that Wertham’s media criticism was right. Can anyone help to illuminate one of the most enigmatic figures in comics history?

Did your name appear on a fashion page? Send us a picture and tell us about it!

Dan Senior certainly enjoyed meeting people. Do you have a Dan or Josie story, or perhaps something to say about Dan Jr. or Jim DeCarlo, the other artists in the family? Here’s your opportunity.

Help us explore the Six Degrees of Dan DeCarlo. Dan’s art style became iconic not only at Archie Comics, but in other teen comics. And that doesn’t begin to cover the other comics and animation artists influenced by his style. Then, too, references to the characters he helped to popularize – Archie, Betty, Veronica, and others – keep turning up in popular culture, both directly and in comics, shows, and films juggling the familiar Riverdale archetypes into new configurations. Have you spotted any such connections? Let us know!

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