A true comics fan simply can’t go wrong by starting the day with a classic EC story, particularly one by Johnny Craig whose work did much to make The Vault f Horror unique amongst the horror titles.

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-festive-parlor-games.html

Here’s a look at a little known newspaper strip entitled The Captain’s Gig by the great Virgil Partch, better known as VIP, the name under which he signed his classic strips and magazine cartoons.

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2011/01/very-impressive-penciller-tuesday-comic.html

Over at Cole’s Comics, we find a typically long and insightful piece on Jack Cole’s early MLJ costumed hero, the Comet, one of the most violent good guys of his day and also the first superhero to die in comics.

http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/comet-jack-coles-forgotten-first.html

Finally today, I never noticed just how much the great inker Joe Sinnott was influenced by John Severin until I saw him on both pencils and inks on this highly detailed Atlas western from 1956 written by Stan Lee.

http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2011/01/gun-barrel-kid-escapes-joe-sinnott-1956.html