We Found The Super-Tribes of Tomorrow
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via Atomic Surgery, Alex Toth, 1963.
Continue ReadingTop Ten Vital Reasons Why Cartoonist Milt Gross is *IMPORTANT*
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingDETECTIVE #27 goes for OVER $1 million
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingACTION #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 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 ReadingOld Newspaper Strips
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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.
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Young John Stanley
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingMore art sale news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingMore John Stanley!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingNo hugs, no lessons
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis 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
Share this link on Facebook!TweetShaenon 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 [...]
Continue ReadingMore on the origins of 20-something superhero fans
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Our experiment in parsing the superhero trends of today ended in disarray as the discussion devolved into the kind of sock puppetry and name calling we find so odious. However, it did spawn a rather interesting post from Michael Climek in which he talks about how he got into reading comics. [...]
Continue ReadingThe many faces of Edgar Allan Poe
Share this link on Facebook!TweetGolden Age Comic Book Stories has been spotlighting Poe with all kinds of incredible artwork and a few comics stories. The Black Cat (1843) by Berni Wrightson fromCreepy #62 ~ May/1974 Berenice (by Archie Goodwin and Jerry Grandenetti from Eerie #11 ~ Sept/1967 The Cask of Amontillado! by Archie Goodwin and Reed Crandall from Creepy [...]
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