Nothing lasts forever
In one year we've lost Yankee Stadium, Coney Island and the economy. What else could go wrong?
Don't answer that.
My own photo from after...
Political comics roundup
§ Matt Shepherd remixes McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More. (In case (like The Beat) you don't have Frank Miller's oeuvre memorized, the captions...
Ditko speaks. Sorta
The still-anonymous donation of the entirety of art from Spider-Man's debut story to the Library of Congress led to an intrepid reporter tracking down...
Meltzer’s bid to save Siegel’s house
Novelist Brad Meltzer has a new book out -- Book of Lies -- which uses the murder of Jerry Siegel's father when...
Even more on Anne Cleveland
Shaenon Garrity takes a look at the history of her fellow Vassar alum Anne Cleveland:
So who was Anne Cleveland? Hardly anyone remembers. In addition...
And there was great rejoicing…Ogden Whitney collection
Methinks this news has been out there before, but Dan Nadel makes it official: PictureBox is doing Ogden Whitney:
PictureBox is going to publish a...
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.
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