Flessel gets the Sparky
This Sunday, one of the last living Golden Age cartoonists, Creig Flessel will be presented with the Sparky Award at the Throckmorton Theatre in...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang returns
Exciting yet offensive, like so much in life, About Comics is bringing back the legendary CAPTIAN BILLY'S WHIZ BANG:
Its naughty nature and popularity made...
Oh Rob Liefeld, you scamp you
Oh man, we can just imagine the internet chatter about this lengthy profile of Rob Liefeld in the OC Weekly:
To this day, Liefeld is...
Basil Wolverton show in LA
Apparently there is a show of Basil Wolverton art going on in SoCal right now, as the LA Times reports:
CARTOONIST Basil Wolverton's biomorphic caricatures...
Links we liked
§ We'd be completely remiss if we didn't point out Tom Spurgeon's comprehensive post on the great cartoonist Bill Mauldin in advance of Fantagraphics'...
SWORD OF THE ATOM analyzed
Beat pal Pepo has one of the finest Spanish-language comics blogs out there, CON C DE ARTE, and today he has a long analysis...
Mighty Marvel Marching Society Remastered
We could just listen to this all day: Doug Pratt writes to say that he has remastered what seems to be the only extant...
In Search of Steve Ditko
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First part of the JOnathan Ross BBC special above; links to the next five parts:
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Tonight: In Search of Steve Ditko
Technically, it's already aired, but bear with us.
Tonight on BBC4, the Jonathan Ross documentary about Steve Ditko finally debuts. (It's on again at 12.50...
Great Cartoonists II: Milton Caniff/Norman Rockwell
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive presents a treasure trove of old magazine articles on Caniff and Rockwell. Marvelous stuff, just marvelous.
Geppi and museum profiled
The Baltimore City Paper has a in-depth profile of Diamond owner Steve Geppi and his struggling but amazing museum:
Resentment against Geppi runs deep in...
THE Wagner sells for $2.8 mil
Beckett Media LP:
The finest known example of the famed 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner was once again sold this week, this time for a record-setting...
