International Museum of Cartoon Art moves to OSU
Mort Walker's International Museum of Cartoon Art has had a long (more than 30 year) history of diaspora: from its first home in Greenwich...
The mystery of the AMAZING FANTASY #15 donation
It was big, big news recently when the entire original art for Amazing Fantasy #15, the origin story of Spider-Man himself, was presented to...
RIP Will Elder
Journalista is reporting the death of legendary MAD artist Will Elder at age 86. The Bronx-born Elder went to school at the Manhattan...
Back in the day
Stolen from the way-back machine of Venus In Furs' Flickr account.
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Around the blogosphere
Big BIG report over at The Comics Reporter as Bart Beaty lays smack down on David Hajdu's THE TEN CENT PLAGUE:
I read...
HIstory of fandom wiki launches
A reader by the name of Laura Hale writes to tell us of Fan History, a new website given to a wiki of the...
Joe Simon, the last living legend
The New York Times talks with Joe Simon, at 94 one of the last of the Golden Age creators. Simon, who once sued for...
NYCC: Eisner bio screening
Jon Cooke writes to tell us there will be a screening of his Will Eisner documentary, preceeding the Eisner tribute panel. (Click for larger...
NYCC: Vanguard — #1857
Steranko, Carmine Infantino, Frank Brunner, Rich Buckler, KErry Gammill and Basil Gogos will be appearing at the Vanguard booth, along with J. David Spurlock....
Another what might have been: Tezuka/Kubrick
i09 reports on an aborted Tezuka project:
When Osamu Tezuka, the father of manga, died in 1989, nobody had a full archive of his works—at...
Bob Clampett’s JOHN CARTER OF MARS
http://www.youtube.com/v/1H2ZdSbyHhQ&hl=en
Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter books have had a long bumpy road to the screen. While Pixar is now on track to make an...
Even More on Wertham
Jeet Heer examines both side of the Wertham legacy in a piece in Slate.
So, who is right, Hajdu or Beaty? Did Wertham have...
