Merry Apocalyptic Christmas!
Well, I don’t suppose I’ll ever have a better excuse than a supposed Mayan Apocalypse near Christmas Eve, to run this post-Apocalyptic Christmas tale from 1988. (Let’s hope not!) Anyway, from the one-shot Comico Christmas Special, with cover by Dave Stevens, art by Steve Rude, Al Williamson, and Brett Blevins, and story by Yours Truly [...]
Stakin’ Vamps # 737
Al Williamson is often associated as much with Flash Gordon as that strip’s creator, Alex Raymond. Here’s one reason why. http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-flash-gordon-comic.html Here’s a big bunch of surprisingly not always politically correct Superman ads from the WWII era. http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/09/wwii-superman-ads.html This piece offers a discussion of the rebooted, red-headed Lex Luthor from the eighties. http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com/2012/09/building-better-lex-luthor-man-of-steel.html Finally [...]
Losin’ Blues # 709
The best friend romance comics ever had, here’s a profile of the delightful and always informative Jacque Nodell who almost literally has comics in her blood. http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html Here’s a fairly long run of the early peak years of Mort Walker’s classic Beetle Bailey strip. http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2012/06/platoon-laugh-tuesday-comic-strip-day.html Here’s some always welcome Al Williamson Flash [...]
Postin’ Posts # 684
Not quite comics but Mark Evanier links to a rare Disney kids record that unusually has Stan Freberg as Micky Mouse (and a half dozen other characters). http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/04/09/todays-video-link-94/ Rip offers up a visual survey on the classic Kamandi image lifted from Planet of the Apes. http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2012/04/last-statue-on-earth.html Looking for a whole bunch of [...]
Fryin’ Eggs # 676
No matter which side you take, here’s Stan Lee’s fascinating deposition from 2010 in the Kirby family vs. Marvel trial. http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/marvel-v-kirby-full-deposition-of-stan.html The future history of comics will be digital and one of the pioneers is Mark Waid who offers a free digital dowload here. http://markwaid.com/?p=695 I recently posted some panels comparing the [...]
Booksteve Reviews-Wally Wood Strange Worlds
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT HOORAY FOR WALLY WOOD Lest one think that Yoe Books is the only one making classic comics material more readily available these days- From out of deepest space and via time warp from the far-flung fifties comes STRANGE WORLDS, the ultimate collection of Wallace Wood’s early, non-EC science fiction and fantasy stories. [...]
Lickin’ Skonks # 488
Let’s start with some choice Atlas-era Al Williamson art on “Beware of the Robots,” in retrospect an incredibly precognitive story! Science-fiction? Not anymore. http://thewarriorscomicbookden.blogspot.com/2011/08/tales-of-suspense-4-beware-of-therobots.html Here’s something you don’t see every day-a teen mag Monkees comic strip from the late sixties Aquaman team of Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo! Nifty stuff! [...]
Maxin’ Lumps # 472
As much as we’d prefer to sweep it under the rug of Marvel history, Jim Shooter’s new Universe existed and thus must be acknowledged, as it is today at Mail It To Team-Up. http://mailittoteamup.blogspot.com/2011/08/marvels-new-universe.html Here’s the great panel cartoonist, Virgil Partch, AKA VIP, with a selection of Vietnam War era Army-related cartoons originally published by [...]
Matchin’ Sporks #437
Let’s start today with a fun look at one of my personal nostalgic favorites, the first, Gil Kane-drawn issue of National’s 1960′s Plastic Man revival. http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2011/06/plastic-man-1.html Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel and maybe a bit of Frazetta. What are you waiting for? Head over to Pappy’s to see how it was done back in the day. [...]
Markin’ Sparx # 420
I’ve stated here before that I have never been a big Alex Nino fan but I have to admit the Groovy Agent’s Nino posts-including this one-are starting to win me over. http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/05/addicted-to-alex-nino-dream-house-by.html Future Hagar creator Dik Browne appeared for years in perennial school library favorite magazine, Boy’s Life, with a strip called the Tracy Twins, [...]
