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 time, "Graphic novel" meant aping the European album format, and...
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 piece isn't so much the quality of the artwork... it's...
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 iconic "Coming at ya!" punch drawings!
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 Thorn translates the title as The Delightful Steel Mill, which...
“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 BACKSTAGE FROM THE STRIPS. Unbelievably, the above strip is from...
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 that much interest to a comics blog, except that everyone...
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 panels below were taken from the now defunct Marvel Age...
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 has reproduced some of John Stanley's NANCY comics, and if...
Once more into the breach, dear pals!
Bully rounds up the greatest ads of all time.
The Beat is showing her age, but it is fair to say that nothing entranced this young comics reader as much as those ads (drawn by...
Madge the Magician’s Daughter
Everyone else has been linking to the 1907 comic strip Madge the Magician's Daughter by W.O. Wilson -- why shouldn't The Beat?
While enjoying this newspaper strip's whimsy and imagination, it also gets us pondering....
The dog days
Seems like everyone is on vacation or in an extended version of Coma Week, so not too much is going on these days. We're working on a few of our "rainy day " projects...
