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That’s All, Folks! 8 Mar 2011 | 02:00 am
Dear Readers, It’s with mixed feelings that we have to say goodbye to Comics Comics for now. We’ve been offered a great opportunity to be co-editors of The Comics Journal online, and after five very...
Ogden Whitney Goes Kirby! 6 Mar 2011 | 03:13 am
A very Whitney top panel - but look at the figure on the right at he top. That's a total Kirby pose. Two-Gun Kid #117 reprints an Ogden Whitney story from the same series years before. “Three Rode To...
The Mid-Life Moment in Alternative Comics 5 Mar 2011 | 02:50 pm
Mid-Life by Joe Ollmann Over at the National Post, I have a review of Joe Ollmann’s new graphic novel Mid-Life (click here to read). A few ancillary thoughts: The Mid-Life Theme. As can be guessed...
Ink Panther podcast 4 Mar 2011 | 04:51 am
Mike Dawson called me on the computer and talked with me about comic books and jobs. Lots of rambling color commentary from your friendly neighborhood blabbermouth – little ol’ me, Frankie Dee. Franki...
Cartoonists That Never Were: G.K. Chesterton 3 Mar 2011 | 01:06 pm
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) is a bit of a shadowy figure in contemporary cultural memory. There is, to be a sure, a Chesterton cult which cherishes him as a sage but most people have only a small glim...
Jane Russell, RIP 3 Mar 2011 | 04:23 am
Jane Russell, who died last Monday at age 89, will be remembered fondly for many reasons: her full-bodied sexiness, her saucy performance as Marilyn Monroe’s co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, her v...
Awkward Word Balloon Placement in Early Comics 2 Mar 2011 | 06:43 pm
Herriman's Major Ozone, Sept. 29, 1906 As an addendum to my McManus notebook, I’ve been collecting examples of reverse-order word ballooning, that’s to say the tendency of early cartoonists to o...
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/2/11 – Your weekly recommended dosage of Sappo) 2 Mar 2011 | 01:20 am
Right into the comics! Picture below! Lewis & Clark: Your deluxe YA-type of bookshelf comic for the week – an 8 1/2″ x 10 7/8″, b&w First Second presentation of a 144-page Nick Bertozzi story of the ...
Swanky Cartoonists, Part II 1 Mar 2011 | 09:32 am
National Cartoonists Society dinner, April. 21 1969. Another example of swanky cartoonists: a photograph of the dinner of the National Cartoonists Society from 1969 (available on the cover of The Nat...
Good Cartoonists Gone 26 Feb 2011 | 01:09 pm
I really liked that little part in Sammy Harkham’s Crickets #3 where he lists the names of cartoonists that have “disappeared” from public view. His list is David Hornung, Colin Warneford, Jayr Pulga,...
