Tag: mark evanier

We've got a lot to cover today, from forgotten secrets of comics to secrets that should be forgotten.

Well, it's about time. Joye Murchison Kelly and Dorothy Roubicek Woolfolk are the joint winners of the 2018 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic...

With two months left until this year’s San Diego Comic Fest, there is still a world of work ahead for the convention’s organizers. Despite...

Since I was a child, Jack Kirby stood out as THE preeminent American cartoonist and I still and always will count him as one...

This year, on August the twenty-eighth, comic legend Jack Kirby would have celebrated his one-hundredth birthday. For family and friends, not a day...

The phrase goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I don’t know anyone who follows it. For that reason, an eye-catching cover is...

Creative teams for the Garfield/Grumpy Cat team-up and Fruit Ninja are announced, as well as a new Killer Instinct comic and variants for Sheena #1.

Carolyn Kelly, a cartoonist and daughter of Pogo creator Walt Kelly, passed away following a lengthy battle with cancer this weekend, as reported by her longtime companion, Mark Evanier:

This year marks the 100th year anniversary of legendary comic book writer and artist Jack Kirby’s birth. The artist’s influence has undeniably touched the...

If you're like me, you have a soft spot for comics featuring animals. Maybe it's a throwback to my first set of plastic Noah's...

  Rounding up the news aout of Emerald City Comic Con which certainly seems to have become the spring news drop. In addition to the fine-looking...

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