HOURS OF FUN: Underground & Independent Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels
Sean Kleefield alerts us to a preview of the Underground & Independent Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels site which appears to do for indies what the now vanished htmlcomics.com did for all comics...but here's the twist....it's...legit?
Can she get any more awesome? Wall Street cartoons of 1882
Via Super I.T.C.H The Deadly Upas Tree of Wall Street by Joseph Keppler, from Puck Magazine August 30, 1882. Click for larger version. It’s Good To Be The Dream King – Part One
I have been writing these in chronological order, but from now on I’m going to channel Lost by doing a flash forward, a flash...
Contest: 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Dave Itzkoff at the NY Times uncovers the story of a vault of 600 pages of unpublished Jack Kirby concept art.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...
Old 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...
Foreign 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...
A 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...
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 --...
Shel Dorf’s 1973 San Diego Comic-Con Photos
At a now-bookmarked site called Comic-Convention Memories, the author is posting some photos found in the late Shel Dorf's collection highlighting: a) just how...
Taschen’s comics beginnings in 1980
As Paul Pope alluded to in the comments, Taschen Books, the art book publisher whose sale we were just telling you about, actually started...
