ACTION #1: The $1 Million Comic Book
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As you probably saw splashed all over the news yesterday, a collectible comic has broken the $1 million barrier, as a 8.0 graded copy of ACTION #1, the first appearance of Superman, as sold by an unknown owner to an unknown buyer. As told here, the sale was brokered by [...]
Continue ReadingMore on Montana v Geppi
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLast week, we reported on some legal troubles for Diamond Distribution owner Steve Geppi, including what appeared to be a $500 million lawsuit filed by the heirs of Archie artist Bob Montana. After looking at the court documents, the actual amount of the suit is only $500,000. (We’ve corrected the original [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do 2/27: CCS at Silent Barn
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This Saturday the Center for Cartoon Studies is presenting a one-day Comics 101 workshop at the Silent Barn University in Queens. Details in the jump; the attendees include Pat Barrett, Garry-Paul Bonesteel, Jon Chad, Lena Chandhok, Robyn Chapman, Aaron Cockle, Ken Dahl, Jon Fine, Sean Ford, Colleen Frakes, Beth Hetland, Nomi [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 2-23-10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A: We’ve arrived! Q: What did you think when Jeopardy featured a “Graphic Novels” category and Tim Hamilton was a clue? § More arrival! The LA Times has added a Graphic Novel category to its book prizes. The nominees for 2009 are: “Luba” by Gilbert Hernandez “GoGo Monster” by Taiyo Matsumoto “Asterios Polyp” by [...]
Continue ReadingFight! Don Murphy vs Kevin O’Neill
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIn the Kevin O’Neill interview we linked to earlier, he made reference to the troubles surrounding LOEG: Black Dossier, which nearly didn’t get published by DC and arrived without a planned flexidisk due to legal concerns. According to O’Neill, even after the book had been vetted by DC’s lawyers, second thoughts [...]
Continue ReadingWizard adds Nashville to tour
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnother day, another press release — brings the Wizard/Shamus/Comic-Con slate to 12 shows. This time it’s a show in Nashville, TN, the new Nashville Comic Con Wizard World Convention, acquired from Marc Ballard’s Comic & Horror Festival . Ballard is also the owner of the Cincinnati show which recently [...]
Continue ReadingSan Diego changes its tune: I just can’t quit you, Comic-Con
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Yesterday’s San Diego Union-Tribune has a front page story by Lori Weisberg entitled Is Comic-Con really leaving San Diego?, and unlike virtually every other story about this that we’ve read and commented on here, this time the folks who run the city of San Diego’s convention and visitor’s bureau appear to [...]
Continue ReadingOld Comics alert: Atomic Surgery
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Atomic Surgery is another one of those blogs which posts crazy old comics stories; we haven’t previously linked to it but a story called We Were 20th Century Cavemen! (1959) provides a fine opportunity to do so, and reminds us of a time when pages and pages of people in torn [...]
Continue ReadingThings to do in Brussels: Moomin exhibit
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Comics historian and publisher Paul Gravett writes to alert us to a Belgian exhibit of art by Tove Jannson: Popularised around the world through comic strips, the Moomin series is above all a rich and sensitive body of comic strip work, created by Tove Jansson (1914-2001), an essential Finnish illustrator and [...]
Continue ReadingForeign MAD
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet On his blog, cartoonist Sam Henderson looks at some foreign editions of MAD Magazine. Some things do translate, and a finger is one of them.
Continue ReadingStan Lee is doing something…still
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet J.K. Parkin and Rich Johnston analyze a new mystery ad campaign for some Sta Lee project with a simple black “Stan’s back!’ motto. Jesus, how many projects can one 87-year-old man have? He’s been pacting with Archie, POW!, Marvel, Viz, and probably your cousin Mabel recently. In his investigation, Johnston goes [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 2/22/10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ As is so often the case, we’ll kick this off with a Comics Comics link, Jeet Heer’s thought-provoking The Mid-Life Crisis of the Great Commercial Cartoonists Further to Dan’s excellent post on Wally Wood, one way to think about Wood’s career is to realize that he followed a pattern common to [...]
Continue ReadingNepotism corner: The CHOKER Tour
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We interrupt this blog for some hype, which we hope we will be forgiven for, just this once. For those of you who read this blog just to follow along with Future Mr. Beat, aka Ben McCool, this week kicks off the CHOKER Tour which he and Ben Templesmith will be [...]
Continue ReadingComics style at the Olympics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile nothing has quite channeled the Fantastic Four as much s the Ukrainian pairs skaters, the two-man bob competition has given everyone an EYEFUL. With their husky builds and lack of support garments, this is a pretty good idea of what real life superheroes might look like. Meanwhile on the women’s [...]
Continue ReadingPhoto parade: Crowds, etc.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSome comics-related photos from around. If you’d like to see your photo parade linked to here, contact us at the link to the right. § Nikitas Manikatos’ photos from yesterday’s one-day Long Beach Comic Expo,, which we totally didn’t give enough coverage, but based on these photos it was a fine [...]
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