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13 min read 2023-01-31 19:00:19

Art

I. In 1977, Art Spiegelman was a 29-year old cartoonist whose work over the previous decade had appeared in a dozen underground comix, a few

13 min read 2023-01-31 19:00:19

I. In 1977, Art Spiegelman was a 29-year old cartoonist whose work over the previous decade had appeared in a dozen underground comix, a few

13 min read 2023-01-31 19:00:19

I. In 1977, Art Spiegelman was a 29-year old cartoonist whose work over the previous decade had appeared in a dozen underground comix, a few

38 min read 2022-08-10 18:00:48

Open a Paris door and you never know what you'll find. One in the Latin Quarter, for example, hides a mini-Pompeii of caricature. That its images

9 min read 2022-03-16 18:32:48

“I consider this a very important part of my career,” Eisner told me when we talked in 1998, “because as you know I’ve always believed that

5 min read 2022-02-10 19:00:24

In his introduction to this book, author Jeremy Dauber says that the overall goal of American Comics: A History is to cover “the whole shebang,”

2 min read 2022-01-13 10:32:00

Fawcett’s original Captain Marvel debuted in Whiz Comics, #2. There was no issue #1.The Human Torch’s kid sidekick, Toro, debuted in Human Torch,

1 min read 2021-11-24 18:30:42

Scott and Dan hit up the comics racks from 44 years ago! This week for RETRO HOT PICKS, Scott Tipton and I are selecting comics that came out the

1 min read 2021-11-23 18:30:41

Featuring Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, George Perez, Jerry Ordway and MORE! There are an infinite number of reasons to

1 min read 2021-11-23 18:28:18

The celebrated Mr. K gives kudos to those who, in the ’60s and ’70s, followed Spidey, the FF, the Hulk and the rest of the Marvel Age first

1 min read 2021-11-22 18:30:23

The comics luminary turns 81… Roy Thomas — born 81 years ago on November 22, 1940 — needs no introduction, so we’re gonna dispense with

1 min read 2021-11-21 18:30:26

Give thanks for great comics art… — Welcome to BRONZE AGE BONANZA — our monthly series that looks at the greatest covers of the Bronze Age —

1 min read 2021-11-21 18:28:30

KARL THE KALENDAR MAN is back! Hey, folks! KARL THE KALENDAR MAN — aka ace illustrator Karl Heitmueller Jr. of Back Issue mag fame — is back

1 min read 2021-11-20 18:30:45

Great, great art… This is the good stuff. The really, really good stuff. IDW (and Marvel) will in 2022 release Gil Kane’s The Amazing Spider-Man

1 min read 2021-11-20 18:28:18

More early Christmas cheer! Christmas is little more than a month away and for the weekends leading up to the holiday, we’re running EXCLUSIVE