Yesterday’s “Talk Like a Pirate Day” spawned an inspired reprinting of Joe Kubert’s SON OF SINBAD at TEN CENT DREAMS. With its still modern looking art by this still modern master of the medium, this one-off title has become a bit of a legend in and of itself.

http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2009/09/son-of-sinbad-its-sept-19th.html

Lash Lightning and Lightning Girl turn up at PAPPY’s today in a well drawn reprint by one Nina Albright, one of the rare female artists of the Golden Age of Comics. It’s a fun 1945 story from FOUR FAVORITES.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2009/09/number-596-lash-lightning-lightning.html

COLE’S COMICS uses a 1944 DEATH PATROL story to obsessively analyze the various stock scenes and styles that Jack Cole utilized throughout his career whether it be in humor comics, crime comics and/or superhero comics.

http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2009/09/cole-isms-1-death-patrol-military.html

Most comics fans are still male and most male comics fans still tend to stay away from romance comics. SEQUENTIAL CRUSH is a site that demonstrates that romance comics can be good! In fact, in the sixties and seventies, Marvel and DC featured some of their best fan favorite artists in their romance comics. Scan through this celebration of those years and you might be surprised.

http://www.sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/

Today in comics and cartoon history, writer/producer Jay Ward was born in 1920. Ward was responsible for the creation of, amongst others, CRUSADER RABBIT, BULLWINKLE AND ROCKY, BORIS AND NATASHA, DUDLEY DO-RIGHT, QUISP AND QUAKE, CAP’N CRUNCH, SUPER CHICKEN and GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE. A famously eccentric man, he died in 1989 beloved by millions of baby boomers.