Old Comics

Back in the day Checker Books was a company that specialized in reprinting old comic strips and books, including a bunchy of Winsor McCay...

This post may be added to throughout the day. Comixology is adding DC to it's sale offerings. Bud PLant Books has it's first ever...

Since all the Santa's are in the stores and it's christmas carols non stop already, I might as well start posting my book rec's...

There are a gajillion free horror comics on the web, including tons of old public domain stuff of the kind now being collected...

Fantagraphics has now published four nice hardcover volumes collecting old Steve Ditko comics. Last year they released Steve Ditko's Mysteriuous Travellers, and here's an...

Gene Luen Yang is riding high right now with his excellent two-volume BOXERS & SAINTS getting great reviews and a shortlist for the National...

All the references to Mark Millar's infamous "Orson Welles was doing a Batman movie hoax" of 2003 in this piece by Brad Ricca suggest to me that this is another clever hoax: the claim that in the May 1937 issue of More Fun featuring Doctor Occult, the Siegel and Shuster team has drawn a familiarly shaped proto-Bat-man. The actual Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939).

Frank Santoro is at it again, in the aptly titled American Pickers in which he advises a friend's father that a comics collection with stickers...

If you are a fan of bizarre, pseudo-naive comics which actually reveal the terrors and struggles of our very subconscious in fantastic form—and who...

Cartoonist Tom Scioli (Gødland) is obviously a devotee of classic comics styles; it should come as no surprise, then, when he wonders Whatever Happened...

By Carolina Cooney While the masses of attendees poured in the doors and made their way toward their exclusive of choice (many to be disappointed),...

BY now you've probably seen this story about an Elbow Lake, MN contractor named David Gonzalez who found the Holy Grail of Comics—an Action...