Web Arted Nov 9th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Moebius, Steranko, Miller, Dodson, Cho, Stokes, Wyeth, McCay, Canete, Immonen, Pham, Perger and more!
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Scott VanderPloeg
Scott works in I.T. but lives to eat and read. His other ramblings can be found at AE Index and eBabble. Art collection at Comic Art Fans.
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DC Offers Single Issues Across Digital Landscape
DC just announced that day and date comics are now available in Apple’s iBookstore, Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes & Noble’s Nook store. Basically DC is releasing individual comics across the three major digital platforms in their native formats. Yes,…
Review | Flash Gordon: On The Planet Mongo
Titan’s first volume of Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon presents the classic material in a comprehensive and affordable package. Beginning the complete library of the greatest science fiction hero of all time. Volume One will spotlight the work of Alex Raymond,…
Web Arted Nov 2nd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Rivera, Epting, Robinson, Kirby, Dodson, Allred, Immonen, Canete, Chiang, Bolland, McNiven, Sprouse, Byrne and more!
Revisiting “Classic” Comics
I started reading comics in 1980 when I spotted a G.I. Joe comic at my local Mac’s Milk store, having already enjoyed the new cartoon at my altogether tender age of eight. It didn’t take long for me to make…
Web Arted Oct 26th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Maleev, Everett, Johnson, Kirby, Miller, Sienkiewicz, Infantino, Coland, Dodson, Ditko and more!
Collected Editions Back Issue Market
Every comic convention I attend and comic shop I visit gives me an opportunity to scour shelves and stacks for dusty hardcovers from the 1980s. Why? I can’t really say: I love rare comic hardcovers from smaller publishers like Graphitti,…
Iron Man 3 Trailer
Here's the first full Iron Man 3 trailer and poster.
Absolute-ly | #4: Moebius’ Silver Surfer
After a very long hiatus we’re back with another edition of Absolute-ly, a look at material that deserves to be in a gigantic art loving format akin to DC’s Absolute, Dark Horse’s Library or IDW’s Artist Edition. Silver Surfer:…
Web Arted Oct 19th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: an embarrassment of riches this week, really!
Review | Saga Volume 1
A compelling and empathetic tale of two people from different cultures trying to make it work, Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples render a “human” tale. From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE…
My Little Pony Hits 90,000 Preorders
The big news to me this week was that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Issue 1 has hit 90,100 advance orders through Diamond; I was also amused that Rich Johnston has access to Diamond preorder numbers but that’s not…
Web Arted Oct 12th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Toth, Adams, Aja, Shaner, Staples, Miller, Kirby, Lee, Simon, Byrne, Janson, Corben, Seth, Charest, Ditko and more!
Collecting Crossover
Experienced or hardened comic readers and collectors see the word crossover and experience a cold shudder or at a minimum a slight frown. We’ve all followed a story arc from one book to the next, only to be disappointed by…
ComicLink Original Comic Art Auction Sep 28th
ComicLink completed their September Focused Auction last week, with the original comic art portion ending September 28th. Here we’ll look at five picks that tickled my fancy. It was an odd auction with mostly lower end material for sale; a…
Web Arted Oct 5th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Ross, Adams, Bolland, Cooks, Cockrum, Miller, Dell'Otto, Opena, Buscema, Byrne, Mignola, Romita Jr., Russell, Rivera, Rude, Nguyen, Young, Maleev, Kirby and more!
Comixology Celebrates 100M Downloads with FREE comics
As part of their celebration of closing in on 100,000,000 downloads Comixology is giving away one free comic a day until they reach that magic number. Here’s a snippet. With the quickly approaching milestone of 100 million comic and graphic…
Marvel Digital Codes: Used Or Abused
Marvel has been including a digital code in their monthly books for some time but they’ve also started filtering into select Marvel hardcovers; my most recent volumes was Hulk Season One. There’s a handy ad sticker on the book’s plastic…
Review | Thief Of Thieves Vol 1: I Quit
In the tradition of Ocean's Eleven and The Thomas Crown Affair, Robert Kirkman and crew's Thief Of Thieves Vol 1: I Quit provides a heist caper full of twists and surprises.
Web Arted Sep 28th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Kirby, Miller, Coipel, Trabbold, Stevens, Canete, Tomine, Ribic, Zonjic, Wood, Toth and more!