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
http://www.youtube.com/v/BaBuYz2A90M
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...
What are people doing
§ If only we could be as funny as Tim O'Neil.
§ The Forbidden Planet Blog Log interviews the guy behind the Comics Britannia mini...
Goodbye, Engine
The Engine, Warren Ellis's two year old forum for comics creators and aspiring comics creators, closes up shop today. So far, the replacement message...
Before there were steroids…
Superheroes WORKED OUT to stay fit! Stan Kleefeldposts excerpts from the 80s Marvel Strength & Fitness Book:
Steve Bissette on STARDUST
Prolix Steve Bissette has a very very long review of STARDUST and observations on the role of illustrators in film and great links and...
