Fringe universe DC covers in full
Last night’s season-ending episode of Fringe included a sideways universe, and that universe included an alternate version of DC, that had its own versions of iconic covers. Geekosystem has collected the lot…so hit up the link for the whole shebang, which is pretty clever, we must admit. We don’t know if any other details of [...]
Continue ReadingContest: Write your own Jack Kirby pitch
Dave Itzkoff at the NY Times uncovers the story of a vault of 600 pages of unpublished Jack Kirby concept art. After leaving DC in the ’70s, the King went on to work in animation for Ruby-Spears through the ’80s, designing such things as Thundarr the Barbabian, among others. But so prolific was Kirby’s imagination [...]
Continue ReadingTop Ten Vital Reasons Why Cartoonist Milt Gross is *IMPORTANT*
by Craig Yoe [It has come to our attention that we don't link to the I.T.C.H. blog enough, especially when they post lots of awesome Milt Gross art, as above. Site proprietor Craig Yoe recently published Complete Milt Gross Comic Book and Lify Story from IDW and generously offered to explain more about why [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 3-15-10
§ DETECTIVE COMICS by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III has won the GLAAD Media Award in the comics category. The awards celebrate strong portrayals of LGBT characters in the media, and DETECTIVE features the lesbian Batwoman. Congrats. § Meanwhile, Colleen Doran posts a few pages from her shocking comic that was nabbed in [...]
Continue ReadingFAQ: What’s with -dome?
A few of you have asked why The Beat attempted to call the whole Amazon Omnibus thing Omnibus Dome. This is a reaction to the over use of -gate as the suffix of choice for scandal or controversy. Prior to Watergate — so named because it involved employees of the Republican party breaking into the [...]
Continue ReadingOld Comics alert: Atomic Surgery
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 clothing fighting prehistoric creatures [...]
Continue ReadingForeign MAD
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 ReadingA Day of Romance
While we’re out at Toy Fair, we’ll leave you with our annual Valentine’s Day image gallery! Let’s kick things off with the instant classic Cerebus Valentines for That Special Void in Your Life as whipped up by Chris Murphy, Laura Hudson and Caleb Goellner with some help from Douglas Wolk. But there’s lots more romance [...]
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Things that were
A page from the weekly comics newspaper, the Comics Buyer’s Guide, March 11, 1988, via Larry Marder . Andy Diggle’s correspondence from 1999 — an eye for talent! And because we need three and Scott Edelman is our go-to-guy, here’s an ad below for the first issue of BOY COMMANDOS, which was originally printed on the [...]
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