Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein
One of the legendary achievements in fantastic illustration, Lynd Ward’s Frankenstein, incredibly, out of print, but archived on the web by Nick Mullins.
Stan Lee’s “Soapboxes” collected!
ITEM! You won't believe your eyes, True Believer! Hero Initiative is collecting Stan Lee's "Soapboxes" from classic Marvel comics! In this one scintillating volume,...
MCKEEVER LIBRARY due from Image
Following up on just the previous item, one of the most gratifying parts of the graphic novel revolution is the fact that it's been...
Quote of the day
"We are the only industry that so loves its Colonel Parkers and so distrusts its Elvis Presleys."
--The Comics Reporter
More 1974 Comic-con memories
Via Sean Chen, more photos from Eugene Gordon, taken at a comic book convention at the Biltmore in New York, 1974.
You know what's interesting...
Comics superstars aid artist
George Gene Gustines reports on how Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, and Stan Lee are helping a Holocaust survivor get her artwork back from...
“Lois Lane’s abortion and the gay Superman”
Jeff Trexler has been digging through the exhibits in the Siegel vs WB case, and found lots of disturbing correspondence between Detective Comics...
Before there was Google…there was Gaiman
Back in the primitive era of the '80s, British comics writers had to call each other to look things up
I remember...
“Man Who Poisoned CRACKED Kills Self”
The anthrax matter -- and the timely suicide of its purported mastermind -- is crazy enough to keep conspiracy theorists going for the rest...
FOUND: New York Comic Con c. 1974
Artist Sean Chen wrote to us with a real comic book history mystery. It seems that Sean's neighbor is a man named Eugene Gordon,...
Way Back Machine: 1959
Tireless John Jackson Miller, ever busy peering thrugh the tomes of years past for nuggets of information, find some circulation information from 1959 on...
RIP Creig Flessel
Mark Evanier reports the death of comics pioneer Creig Flessel at age 96, following a stroke. Flessel worked in comics from the dawn of...
