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...
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...
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...
Hard to believe Marvel once published comics that looked like this
Kristy Valenti remembers GREENBERG THE VAMPIRE:
Written by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Mark Badger, GtV was Marvel's 20th "graphic novel." For Marvel, at that...
Is there anything going on in the world besides elections? Yes: Huckleberry Hound
Well, old ENGLISH Huckleberry Hound: The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive reprints some Huck comics from a 1964 British comics weekly.
The interesting thing about this...
Los puñetazos de Gil Kane
While we're talking about Pepo, a very fine cartoonist in his own right, we might as well link to his gallery of Gil Kane's...
More old manga
Shaenon Garrity continues to reprint manga from the 40s. This stuff is pre-Tezuka, and it shows, but it has much charm. This week:
Matt...
“An unexpected legacy”
Steve Bunche got a bunch of old comics collections from a neighbor and found some gems, including several Pogo books and a copy of...
More Kyle Baker mutants
Mike Fiffe once again reaches into his vault for the conclusion of "Mutant Beach Party" and some Kyle Baker rarities from the DC vaults.
Herman Melville, the original Arnold Drake
Variety announces that WANTED director Timur Bekmambetov will direct a new version of MOBY DICK , which wouldn't in and of itself, be of...
More injury to the nads with Kyle Baker
Sterling archivist Michael Fiffe once more opens the vaults with this collection of Kyle Baker's X-Men comic strip, "It's Genetic":
The 11 "It's Genetic" gag...
Stanley’s NANCY
It seems that Little Lulu wasn't the only tot in a red dress that legendary John Stanley wrote about. Pappy's Golden Age ...
