Gran’pa Feeb!
We're still away taking care of some personal business...so in the meantime, enjoy a tale of John Stanley's Gran'pa Feeb via Pappy's Golden Age . Please note the numerous examples of shocks so great...
ACTION #1 goes for $317,200
An ultra-rare, much-publicized copy of ACTION #1, Superman's first appearance, has sold for $317,200. The purchaser is John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, but he acquired it for an...
If I’d owned this comic when I was a kid
I would have read it to shreds. Absolute shreds.
"The Ice Dragon" by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert.
New Covered blog
Robert Goodin has launched a new blog called Covered, in which indie artists recreate classic comics covers. For instance, Johnny Ryan does UNCLE SCROOGE. Above is Jeffrey Brown's recreation of a Marvel SECRET WARS...
Pull Quotes: Remaking the Prez
"We have a President-Elect who's a Spider-Man fan! It's like I've been saying for years, people who grew up reading comics are moving into positions of power in media, in business, and now in...
Art from MAD Magazine goes for $750K
If there's one item that can be said to be recession proof, it's apparently original artwork from the glory years of MAD Magazine. Heritage Auction Gallerie's auction of the last batch of MAD original...
When weekends attack!
Thanks to everyone for the many birthday wishes, and to everyone who came out to our birthday bash this weekend. It was a well-attended soirée that gave all kinds of folks a chance to...
Powerhouse Pepper
Oy...Big f'ed up mess on The Beat server today. Much missing in action. To make up for it, here's some Powerhouse Pepper by Basil Wolverton. Back tomorrow full strength, straight outta Compton.
Kuwata controversy roundup
It all started when Laura Hudson rounded up comments by Top Shelf's Leigh Walton, Andrew Wheeler and Joe McCulloch about the fact that mangaka Jiro Kuwata's name was not on the cover of BAT-MANGA,...
