Web Arted July 26th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Review | Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition
Continue to the Artist’s Edition Index for the complete review. IDW is exceedingly proud to offer an Artist’s Edition of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Created by Eisner in 1940, the Spirit is to comics what Citizen Kane was to cinema—groundbreaking…
April Fool’s Day from The Spirit
Here’s a classic April Fool’s Day from The Spirit, March 30th 1947.
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition, Finally
Being a devout fan of IDW’s Artist’s Editions line of oversized comic art books I’ve been looking forward to Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition since it’s initial announcement at SDCC 2011. An oversized, hardcover collection, WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT:…
Undervalued Spotlight #140
Wonder Comics #1, Fox Features Syndicate (May 1939) This is such a beast of a Golden Age comic. I’ve had Wonder Comics #1 in my scopes for a while but eased up on it after Undervalued Spotlight fan Warren contributed…
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…
Russ Cochran’s Comic Art Auction Jun 14th
An auction featuring mostly Frank King Gasoline Alley dailies ended last week, all from Russ Cochran via Auctionanything.com. The auction was initially scheduled to end two weeks before but there were some technical difficulties and to be fair to the…
Undervalued Spotlight #86
Wonderworld Comics #3, Fox Features Syndicate, July 1939 A while ago in Undervalued Spotlight reader Dave contributed installment #74. I’m happy to present another fan submission. Warren is a regular column reader and felt Wonderworld #3 was a good candidate.…
Suddenly/Meanwhile | ..and we’re back!
Wherein Peter discusses Bakune Young: the craziest Manga ever drawn, Ramon Perez's forthcoming year and Farel Dalrymple's Mister Miracle. Good times all around!
Suddenly/Meanwhile | Steranko’s The Block
I recently came across a wonderful little story done by Jim Steranko for Comixscene #4, published May-June of 1973. ‘The Block’ isn’t the world’s best story, nor is it Steranko’s best work; it’s very heavy handed in delivering it’s message…
Undervalued Spotlight #73
National Comics #18, Quality Comics, December 1941 A comic book that will live in infamy! This issue is famous for depicting an attack on Pearl Harbor 1 month before the event actually happened. Notably the book has the Germans doing…
Undervalued Spotlight #56
The Doll Man was introduced in a 4 page story called “Meet the Doll Man” in Quality Comics’ Feature Comics #27 (12/39). In the comic research Chemist Darrell Dane invents a formula that shrinks him down to 6 inches (though he’s still as strong as he was when he’s full size). The Doll Man is one of the very first superheroes. He predates the likes of...
Stuff We Learned (and didn't Learn) at The 2010 San Diego Comic Con!
Here's a quick round up of a few things we learned at CCI this year, and one thing that we didn't... maybe we should just let go now.