Tag: History

The top 300 comics charts are out for January, and John Jackson Miller has his monthly analysis which reveals that graphic novels were heavily...


 In 1992, the MTV News crew visited the Marvel Bullpen and talked to then Editor in Chief Bob Harras, the late Mark Gruenwald and...

In addition to popularizing "Sterankoing," artist Jim Steranko is quite a tweeter. Every Sunday night he holds a regular talk, and last night he...

Just before Christmas, I ran a picture tweeted by DC Comics of the 1945 DC Christmas party, with many figures from comics history—from artist Joe Kubert to publisher Harry Donenfeld —in the room. The photo conveyed a palpable sense of the past brought to life, the clinking of glasses, the laughter of women, the camaraderie of the still young industry. And now Letterer/historian Todd Klein has identified as many of the people in the photo as possible.

Marc Tyler Nobleman is the author of Bill the Boy Wonder, a kids picture book bio of Bill Finger, illustrated by Ty Templeton, and...

Recently I posted a news item about the new Badger book from Devil's Due having low orders. Writer/creator Mike Baron reached out to me...

When you look at the list of comics publishers who have stayed the course throughout decades of tumultuous changes in distribution and audience, one...

WOW! Talk about historic finds! DC Comics just tweeted this historic photo from a comics industry Christmas party from 70 years ago. While there is a slight Shining view to it (is that Hank Kanalz I see in the back?), it's also an amazing view into the Golden Age. After it was tweeted DC Comics was kind enough to send me a high res scan which I am sharing with you so all the comics historians out there can pour over it. There is a handwritten guest list as well, but its provenance isn't known so I am not posting it.

While poking around on the A Moment of Cerebus site following my previous post on Glamourpuss, I noticed that the remastered editions of Church...

Well speak of the devil, here's a new Kickstarter from the Locust Moon folks that plans to reprint some long lost early work by...

Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel is a new book by former DC publisher Paul Levitz that looks at Eisner's historical contribution to...

The New York Times, which is the one newspaper that never ran comics strips, reverse engineers their insertion into Sunday papers as something of...