Every once in awhile, a comic book artist comes along who is quickly recognized as being just plain too good for the medium! One such artist is P. Craig Russell who started out in the early seventies like other comics artists but by the end of that decade was doing the type of classically inspired work seen at the link below, originally published in Mike Friedrich’s “ground level” title, Imagine. Wow.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/05/phillip-craig-russell-avatar-and.html

Two Wally Wood Jungle Jim stories from a 1969 Charlton issue of Alex Raymond’s venerable jungle explorer are on view at The Charlton Story, all behind an in-your-face cover by the always welcome Ditko/Wood team.

http://www.thecharltonstory.com/2010/05/witch-doctor-of-borges-island-and.html

Speaking of Woody, he and his current studio mates at the time (including Jack Abel, Ralph Reese and Paul Kirchner) joined Neal Adams and friends to help Klaus Janson ink Larry Hama’s art for the second issue of Atlas/Seaboard’s Wulf the Barbarian, giving the whole thing a truly unique look…not necessarily a great look mind you but…

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/05/random-reads-wulf-barbarian-faces-beast.html

Finally today, here’s one of Cracked.Com’s typically politically incorrect (and NSFW) countdowns, this one being an amusing rundown of the Top 5 Worst Comic Book Sidekicks of All Time.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-gayest-fattest-most-racist-most-useless-sidekicks-of-all-time/

eVeTsKoOb!