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 [...]
MaaaaaaaKIN’ LINKS # 281
The late Dave Stevens had been working in comics for a number of years before he became an overnight success with the Rocketeer in the eighties. After that he became one of the great cover artists. Here’s a gallery with some goodies. http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/10/dave-stevens-1955-2008-one-of-great.html Mad’s great caricaturist Mort Drucker is on view at Star-Studded War Comics [...]
MAkin’ LInks # 212
One of my very favorite sixties strips was and is National/DC’s Stanley & His Monster created by Arnold Drake. Over at Easily Mused this morning, we have the ubiquitous Superman parody episode which, although atypical of this series, is a silly entry with nice art by Bob Oksner and Tex Blaisdell. http://johnglenntaylor.blogspot.com/2010/06/1968-its-birda-planestanleys-monster.html Another sixties favorite [...]
Makin’ Links # 135
Here’s a great French blog with marvelous, good-sized works by comics and magazine illustrators from around the world including Mort Kunstler, Sanjulian , Dave Stevens and Esteban Maroto. http://illustrateurs.blogspot.com/ Here’s a one-off tale of the great Gilbert Shelton superhero parody character Wonder Warthog, done with fellow underground artists Robert Williams and S. Clay Wilson for [...]
Makin’ Links # 51
For Marvel Comics’ 70th Anniversary, the UK newspaper site TIMESONLINE presents 70 factoids about Marvel. Most of them are accurate, detailed and genuinely interesting. Then you get to the part about how paul Simon wrote the theme to the sixties SPIDER-MAN cartoon. WTF? He did not. Stick around to page 7 for their retraction which [...]
Dave Stevens R.I.P.
I just talked to Dave Scroggy on the phone who let me know the very sad news that Dave Stevens just died of leukemia. It’s a little known fact that Stevens was supposed to do the cover of the first Arf book-at least part of it. I had a mock up of Arf at the [...]
