Tag: History

We've seen some pretty funny mash-ups photos floating around the web of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore together, photos which are a little ironic since the two titans of comics are not actually besties IRL. However, the above photo of Morrison and Neil Gaiman is 100% real.

One of the leaders of the protest movement against a Dutch newspaper publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad—protests which killed scores f people and engulfed the entire Islamic world in violence and protest—now says he was wrong. Ahmad Akkari, now 35, says he was way offbase when he led the protests.

March: Volume 1 has already had pretty huge success since its release at Comic-Con—and last night it got one of the ultimate media accolades—a...

The Word Balloon podcast is one of the most important thing to happen to comics in the last eight years. It was announced on that...

The other day I received an email from comics historian and artist Jim Amash on behalf of inker Terry Austin to alert people that...

Well that's the short hand version. Basically, back in the 90s, Jim Lee bought two piece of Jack Kirby art. At the time everyone...

Thanks to Sarrah Horrocks, this undated but 80s ish photo of Jim Steranko and Jack Kirby shows that Steranko-ing has a long, proud tradition....

Anyone who has ever met him knows that they want to be Al Jaffee when they grow up. The master of MAD's fold-ins is...

Here are some comics to get you in the mood for hot dogs and fireworks. And some videos.

The University Press of Mississippi has published many excellent scholarly works on comics and here's a new one: The Superhero Reader, a volume of...

I had about 20 posts in various stages on gender issues this week...let's put them all into one big roil, complete with shocking personal...

In 1978 Stan Lee was the publisher of Marvel Comics, and Jenette Kahn was the publisher of DC, and together they made a speech...