Old Comics

As usual when we're too busy to post, we'll just try to distract you with pretty pictures. Courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive -- gaze upon the newspaper comic strip sections of yore and weep,...

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The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It's always refreshing to see a great artist captured in the full bloom of youth; our ideas of...

Beat readers were divided over the $600k sale of recognized Pop Art master Mel Ramos's painting based on a Gil Kane cover. So here's a little cosmic balance: The art for the cover of...

Drawn and Quarterly continues to do God's Work be announcing even more John Stanley reprints: We'll be starting off with a three volume set of Stanley's Melvin Monster. During the "monster" craze of the...

This old Donald Duck one-pager has been making the rounds lately. Or should we say, this Donald Goddamn Duck one pager. He shows them how it's done. To our untrained eye it appears to have...

Shaenon K. Garrity cuts straight to the quick of John Stanley's Little Lulu in this piece: The thing about the Little Lulu reprint project is that, brilliant as Little Lulu is, no one really needs...

Our experiment in parsing the superhero trends of today ended in disarray as the discussion devolved into the kind of sock puppetry and name calling we find so odious. However, it did spawn a...

Golden Age Comic Book Stories has been spotlighting Poe with all kinds of incredible artwork and a few comics stories. The Black Cat (1843) by Berni Wrightson fromCreepy #62 ~ May/1974 Berenice (by Archie Goodwin and...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIFiuIV67u0&w=425&h=355] This YouTube video has a weighty theme: The American civil rights movement opened possibilities of empowerment to a new generation. Feminism simply extended that to include equity for the 51% majority of the human...

After all the deep thots around here of late, cleanse your palette with this hilarious page.