Old photos updates
Our post on this photo of a comics shop in 1965 has drawn a few responses. Mark Evanier has a detailed memory of the...
A comics shop in 1965
Cherokee Book Shop on Hollywood Blvd., 1965.
Via the UCLA photo archives.
Stan “the Man” in 1967
Over on his blog, Scott Edelman posted this picture of Stan Lee (left) from 1967. Pre-showbiz, it was a very different Stan.
More comics history
More photos from the recently uploaded LIFE magazine photo archives: Yale Joel's series from "The Comic Book Hearings."
Oh yeah, search "comic book," and you...
Awesome photos
Google announced that they have made LIFE magazine's photos archives available online. Not only does this mean that regular folks can look at the...
Tom Fagan’s 1972 convention report
Join Scott Edelman for a fascinating trip down memory lane to the 1972 Comic Art Convention in New York City, via a fanzine report...
Losing my edge
LCD Soundsystem remix via Sean Collins:
Every great book by Jack Kirby.All the underground hits.All of the Boody Rogers strips.I heard you have a hardcover...
Flashback: in 1988 D.C. discovered ad sales
We were doing our usual Google news search last night and noticed you can now look back in time. A quick search on DC...
The day in political cartooning
§ Gawker predicts hard times for political cartoonists if Obama is elected. Part of the problem is that caricaturing the African-American candidate could draw...
“I am Spartacus, and I am a graphic novel!”
Starz has announced a new TV series version of Spartacus, the stirring historical epic of a doomed but feisty slave rebellion in ancient Rome....
Two links for the day
§ Steven Grant looks at the 20 most important comics ever published, chronologically:
1) FAMOUS FUNNIES #1 (Eastern Color, 1934)Max Gaines' brainchild, the one that...
