Tag Will Eisner

Web Arted July 26th

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.

Review | Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition

Scott VanderPloeg
April 17, 2013

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

Scott VanderPloeg
February 20, 2013
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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

Walter Durajlija
November 14, 2012

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

Scott VanderPloeg
October 8, 2012

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

Scott VanderPloeg
June 19, 2012

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

Walter Durajlija
May 20, 2011

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.…

Peter DeCourcy
March 29, 2011

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…

Walter Durajlija
January 28, 2011

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…

Walter Durajlija
September 27, 2010

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...

Comic Book Daily Staff
July 26, 2010

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.