Yankin’ Yanks # 342
Welcome to 2011. We start the year with a piece that’s already a month old which explores some private correspondence between comics creators Will Eisner and Jack Katz which may well have led to the now accepted term, “graphic novel.”
http://doctor-k100.blogspot.com/2010/12/will-eisner-and-graphic-novel.html
New Years nostalgia takes center stage with the Groovy Agent as he recalls January 1st, 1973 and a very special issue of the beloved DC 100 Page Super-Spectacular starring Batman, the Atom, Doll Man, Blackhawk and more!
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/01/grooves-faves-100-page-super.html
Too Busy Thinking About My Comics has a nice piece spotlighting some of the New Years moments found in Marvel comic book stories of the 1970′s including Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.
http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/ringing-in-new-year-with-seventies.html
Finally today, here’s the debut of my own new blog which reprints the Bicentennial year journal of 16 year old booksteve as he buys comics, attends 4 Conventions, discovers movies, TV and girls! Check out A Geek’s Journal-1976.
http://geeksjournal1976.blogspot.com/

— booksteve


































