Outsider
Outsider is going straight into the ‘when is this going to be finished so I can buy the book’ category. Especially if they do a bit of tweaking to make the art consistent throughout. The story is familiar, Humanity begins space exploration…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Comic Culture March 6th 2013
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija tackle a wide range of topics including comic books in school curriculum, the new Superman comics, a new Planet of the Apes movie, local comic shops staging special events and…
Over 4.6 Million comics ordered for FCBD 2013
Well, that is a lot of comics. Diamond just announced the following in their retail newsletter. Comic book specialty retailers worldwide expect record attendance at this year’s Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) and have also pushed their ordering to record levels—with…
“The Only Time I Ever Wished I Was Billy Bob Thornton”
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! Hotter than Cat Grant! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD…
The London ComicCon
Sadly, It looks as though the Kapow! convention organisers’ could’ve made a big mistake by skipping 2013. The London McMcomicCon has hustled its way into Kapow!’s vacant hot-spot at the end of May, 24th through 26th and it’ll be held at the Excel Center in the…
ComicLink February Featured Auction Original Comic Art
ComicLink just wrapped up their February Featured Auction, which had a considerable amount of original comic art. In fact most of it was silver age, with a smattering of golden age and modern. A lot of great stuff, but the ones below…
Auction Highlights #76
Auction Highlights #76, Comic Link February Featured Auction The Comic Link Featured Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday February 26th and Wednesday February 27th. Now this was a good auction. ComicLink did a great job bringing…
Crash 2! Part 12
Crash 2! By Dennis De Pues continues. Exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. Full size.
Web Arted Mar 1st
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days. Well, not really. Like the rest of this week I focused on the recent Heritage auction.
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Winter Conventions Suck!!!
A couple of weeks back I was at a convention at the Royal York in Toronto. It is a convention I plan on attending for the next 7 years. Over 1000 delegates attend the convention, and it always occurs in…
Heritage 2013 Feb 21-23 Art Auction: Bronze Age
Continuing our look at Heritage 2013 February 21-23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction (7073), this time at the bountiful bronze Age material offered. There’s no stopping this auction. Amazing Spider-Man issue 121 cover by John Romita Sr, 1973,…
Death, be not proud.
The comic book world was abuzz this week with the news that Damian Wayne, the fourth Robin, was going to die in the upcoming Batman Incorporated #8. I didn’t bother posting a spoiler alert because once something appears in the…
A Touch of Colour
There’s that significant moment in silver screen history when Judy Garland, as Dorothy, steps out of her black-and-white Kansas world, through the door of her tornado-transported farm house, into the rich, full-colour, munchkin-filled Land of OZ. This really didn’t happen…
Heritage 2013 Feb 21-23 Art Auction: Silver Age
Continuing our look at Heritage 2013 February 21-23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction (7073), this time at the bountiful Silver Age material offered. Avengers issue 55 cover by John Buscema and George Russos, 1968, sold for $35,850.00. Source. A…
Don’t Forget Princess Skin-tight Black Leather Spy
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: NEW YORK- The Powers-That-Be at…
Comic Culture February 27th 2013
This week Comic Culture is hosted by Walter Durajlija and Marty Birthelmer. Regular host Chris Owen is on a well deserved vacation! Walt and Marty discuss whether Mark Hamill will be in the new Star Wars movie, they also chat…
Upgrades
In the interests of learning how exactly to sell my amateur artwork, I’d like to take an opportunity to — quite shamelessly — plug my latest project here and would encourage any feedback from anyone whom is kind enough to…
Heritage 2013 Feb 21-23 Art Auction: Moderns
Over the weekend Heritage Auctions completed their 2013 February 21-23 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction (7073) in New York. There were some significant pieces for sale and startling final prices were achieved. Heritage has made itself the preeminent…
Undervalued spotlight #152
Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men, nn, Marvel Comics, (December 1985) Some of the defining events of the 1980s were surely the massive famine relief efforts initiated by Sir Bob Geldof. If you remember Sir Geldof put together a British…
Comics from around the web
A few comics on the web that have caught my eye.
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Crash 2! Part 11
Crash 2! By Dennis De Pues continues. Exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. Full size.