Rakin’ Shrinks # 324
Jim Starlin is known for having turned Marvel on in the seventies to cosmic consciousness but he also turned out a heckuva splash page! Here’s a whole bunch of showy examples!
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/12/making-splash-jim-starlins-captain.html
Mail It To Team-Up is offering up some classic Christmas comic book covers one day at a time for their “25 Days of Christmas.” We already have Donald Duck, the DCU guys and a classic Dell Santa Claus. Check daily to see what’s next!
http://mailittoteamup.blogspot.com/
Via Stephen DeStefano, here’s Evan Dorkin’s nifty Flickr collection of rare photographs of classic cartoonists! Milton Caniff, Virgil Partch, Hal Foster, Russ Westover, Alex Raymond and more!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10131956@N00/sets/72157625391215059/
Finally, Comic Book Resources is counting down the Top 50 Comic Book Artists of all time as per online votes; interesting to see that people I have never even heard of are doing so well. Times change. Can’t wait to see the top 5.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/12/08/top-50-comic-book-artists-35-31/

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