Makin’ Links # 143

If you need a fix of the classic after SyFy’s announcement of their upcoming high tech, armored and ridiculous looking Phantom series, here’s a Joe Gill/Don Newton story from late in Charlton’s mid-seventies run of the original masked superhero.
http://falkonthewildside.blogspot.com/2010/03/phantom-67-charlton.html
Joe Cunningham, a Pennsylvania cartoonist from the early 20th Century whose major strip was Roofus McGoofus, is profiled in a reprint of a 1925 biographical puff piece originally presented in a magazine called Cartoons and Movies.
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2010/03/news-of-yore-1925-joe-cunningham.html
The 10 Most Important Gay Moments in Comic Book History is an interesting but controversial posting with many complaining that author Eric Diaz limited himself to superhero comics which, in this world of so many award-winning gay-themed non-mainstream comics shows real tunnel-vision.
http://www.ranker.com/list/the-10-most-important-gay-moments-in-comic-book-history/eric-diaz
Finally today, we run a lot of links to Pappy’s Golden Age Blogzine. We’ve also linked several times to Apocolyte’s World of Comics. Today we find Apocolyte interviewing Pappy!
http://apocolytesworldofcomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-interview-with-pappy-from-pappys.html

— booksteve


































dirk over at journalista had some wise things to say about the gay moments in comics bit. keep up the great work book steve!