dave sim

9 min read 2023-01-01 13:00:00

Ink Stains 162: Graphic Visions 2

front and back covers by Dave Sim and Carl Taylor Graphic Visions 2: Sept 1975Publisher/editor: Chris Lomelino I actually had plans to do another

21 min read 2022-10-05 18:00:03

To look for a fig in winter is a madman’s act. -Marcus Aurelius Preliminary Note When I was asked to write about The Strange Death of Alex Raymond

15 min read 2022-07-27 18:00:36

Some thoughts on a few noteworthy comics I've read lately... * * * Time Zone J by Julie Doucet. Published by Drawn & Quarterly, 2022. Cover for

18 min read 2021-12-18 13:05:52

In October, 1971, the letters column in the back of Conan the Barbarian #13 alerted readers to the fact that the Marvel Comics series — which had

1 min read 2021-11-23 19:00:18

With The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, Dave Sim and Carson Grubaugh have delivered a book that is difficult to define, hard to completely enjoy, and

6 min read 2021-04-05 02:44:14

Just like with our sequences on vintage comic books seen out and about in the world, so too do I have a relatively large collection of vintage

9 min read 2020-11-14 21:45:47

Art by Jim Steranko Here are my favorite Sword & Sorcery comics from Marvel’s Epic Illustrated. The full-sized magazine ran for 34 issues from

9 min read 2020-11-05 21:03:10

In preparation for this weekend’s next session of the Dark Worlds Quarterly Sword & Sorcery Round Table, I am looking over my favorite comics,

8 min read 2020-09-13 04:08:22

It’s a difficult thing to talk about the work of Dave Sim these days. For a start, he’s fallen largely into obscurity since his masterwork, the

4 min read 2020-08-14 18:00:38

The Barbarian and the Line belong together. The heroic figure offers the fantastic artist such a pleasure of riches. I remember encountering such

5 min read 2020-03-13 17:53:39

In 1982, Gary Gygax of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fame gave us the character class “The Barbarian” in The Dragon #63 (July 1982). One of

13 min read 2020-02-11 21:19:47

Art by G. W. Thomas Sword & Sorcery has not always been seen as the rightful prince to the Heroic Fantasy crown. During the Lancer boom of the

3 min read 2020-01-04 20:49:43

Skywald Publications was a rival of Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella that flourished for about four years in the early 1970s. It offered non-Comics Code

8 min read 2019-11-23 22:31:26

Michael Moorcock’s albino swordsman appeared for the first time in Science Fantasy #47 (1961) in the story “The Dreaming City”. Fifty-eight

3 min read 2019-07-22 00:42:59

It’s impossible to encapsulate how seismic the effect of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS was on the field of comic books. Not only did it introduce a more