Now on sale: The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics
Via PR, another swell-looking collection of vintage kids comics, this time collated by Craig Yoe as part of his line of books at IDW. Award-winning comics creator and historian Craig Yoe has done it again, this time offering a huge collection of the most brilliant children’s comics from the 1940’s and ‘50s Golden Age of [...]
Continue Reading
Top 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 ReadingDETECTIVE #27 goes for OVER $1 million
Rich Johnston has the exclusive news that this week’s record comics sale of $1 million for an issue of ACTION #1 has already been broken by a copy of DETECTIVE #27 which sold for $1,075,500. That issue, of course, reprints presents the first appearance of Batman. The Caped Crusader is topping the Man [...]
Continue ReadingACTION #1: The $1 Million Comic Book
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 Stephen Fishler and Vincent [...]
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 ReadingOld Newspaper Strips
As usual when we’re too busy to post, we’ll just try to distract you with pretty pictures. Courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive — gaze upon the newspaper comic strip sections of yore and weep, weep, weep.
Continue Reading
Young John Stanley
The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It’s always refreshing to see a great artist captured in the full bloom of youth; our ideas of Stanley are mostly of the older, curmudgeonly but still insightful playwright of the heart. Jeet Heer takes the oppotunity of D&W’s thrilling [...]
Continue ReadingMore art sale news
Beat readers were divided over the $600k sale of recognized Pop Art master Mel Ramos’s painting based on a Gil Kane cover. So here’s a little cosmic balance: The art for the cover of WEIRD SCIENCE #16 has sold for $200,000: A major, sophisticated collector of comic book art has paid $200,000 for the original cover [...]
Continue ReadingMore John Stanley!
Drawn and Quarterly continues to do God’s Work be announcing even more John Stanley reprints: We’ll be starting off with a three volume set of Stanley’s Melvin Monster. During the “monster” craze of the Sixties, Dell Comics launched this short-lived but hilarious and weird series about a good little monster boy and his disappointed family. [...]
Continue ReadingNo hugs, no lessons
This old Donald Duck one-pager has been making the rounds lately. Or should we say, this Donald Goddamn Duck one pager. He shows them how it’s done. To our untrained eye it appears to have been drawn by Jack Hannah. Can anyone correct our woeful ignorance?
Continue ReadingGarrity on Lulu
Shaenon K. Garrity cuts straight to the quick of John Stanley’s Little Lulu in this piece: The thing about the Little Lulu reprint project is that, brilliant as Little Lulu is, no one really needs 19 volumes of it. It’s a very repetitive comic. The adventures of Lulu Moppet, Tubby Tompkins, and their many small neighbors [...]
Continue Reading
Our Sponsors
RECENT COMMENTS