Old Newspaper Strips
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...
Young John Stanley
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...
More art sale news
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...
More John Stanley!
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...
No hugs, no lessons
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...
Garrity on Lulu
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...
More on the origins of 20-something superhero fans
Our experiment in parsing the superhero trends of today ended in disarray as the discussion devolved into the kind of sock puppetry and name...
The many faces of Edgar Allan Poe
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has been spotlighting Poe with all kinds of incredible artwork and a few comics stories.
The Black Cat (1843)
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Kick-ass comics women of the 70s
http://www.youtube.com/v/HIFiuIV67u0
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...
The secret history of Vertigo?
After all the deep thots around here of late, cleanse your palette with this hilarious page.
