Podcast Alert: Word Balloon surpasses 4 million downloads
The Word Balloon podcast is one of the most important thing to happen to comics in the last eight years. It was announced on that...
Convention mistakenly advertises X-men Creators reunion, apologizes
The other day I received an email from comics historian and artist Jim Amash on behalf of inker Terry Austin to alert people that...
Help Jim Lee put his kids through college by buying Jack Kirby’s ARGO art
Well that's the short hand version. Basically, back in the 90s, Jim Lee bought two piece of Jack Kirby art. At the time everyone...
SDCC’13: Wonder Women: On Paper and Off
From 1983 until 1997, Mary Mashcal assembled an extensive collection of memorabilia and aritifacts, filling virtually every room of her Golden Hill home with...
Steranko-ing: the early years
Thanks to Sarrah Horrocks, this undated but 80s ish photo of Jim Steranko and Jack Kirby shows that Steranko-ing has a long, proud tradition....
Columbia University acquires Al Jaffee archives
Anyone who has ever met him knows that they want to be Al Jaffee when they grow up. The master of MAD's fold-ins is...
Happy Fourth of July, everyone!
Here are some comics to get you in the mood for hot dogs and fireworks.
And some videos.
Catch up on your comics history with The Superhero Reader
The University Press of Mississippi has published many excellent scholarly works on comics and here's a new one: The Superhero Reader, a volume of...
Alan Moore talks Superman in Occupy Comics: “The seamy and disreputable practices of comics...
The second issue of Occupy Comics is coming, they've sent out an lengthy excerpt of a lengthier essay by Moore on Superman, comics Original Sin and...
The week in women: do we write about gender issues too much?
I had about 20 posts in various stages on gender issues this week...let's put them all into one big roil, complete with shocking personal...
Comics History in Photos: Stan Lee and Jenette Kahn at Temple University in 1978
In 1978 Stan Lee was the publisher of Marvel Comics, and Jenette Kahn was the publisher of DC, and together they made a speech...
Meet Kate Lane: the early days of Siegel and Shuster
Brad Ricca digs into Siegel and Shuster comics from More Fun and Fun Comics that featurevarious precursors to Lois Lane from comics they did before Superman.
