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About Comics has started a new video series with a look at a long-forgotten Black superhero, Sergeant Joe, one that predates the most commonly cited "first Black superhero" The series Comics Show & Tell with Nat Gertler is intended to be an ongoing look at interesting, bizarre, and overlooked pieces of comics culture, whether it be[...]

The book, published by NBM and carrying an introduction by Jeff Smith, received positive reviews, as New York magazine called it an "elegant, wordless work of art" but sales did not follow, and it only received one printing Metronome by Véronique Tanaka/Bryan Talbot Now About Comics has brought Metronome back into print with a new paperback edition[...]

Nat Gertler of About Comics does a fine job in printing and keeping in print all manner of oddities of the comic book industry – and others The non-Peanuts work of Charles Schulz, Kurt Busiek and James Fry's Liberty Project, facsimile copies of the Negro Motorist Green Book and much more[...]

Nat Gertler is a comic book-and-related hero, an Eisner Award-winning comics history writer, putting work back into print that had been unduly forgotten, missed out from the canon or in urgent need of archiving. From religious-themed cartoons to superhero comic The Factor, from Stephen Weiner's analysis of Jeff Smith's Bone to a facsimile of The Green Book, or bringing back to print Gail Simone and Lea Hernandez's Killer[...]

Nat Gertler is a comic book-and-related hero, an Eisner Award-winning comics history writer, putting work back into print that had been unduly forgotten, missed out from the canon or in urgent need of archiving. From religious-themed cartoons to superhero comic The Factor, from Stephen Weiner's analysis of Jeff Smith's Bone to a facsimile of The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy[...]

Nat Gertler is a comic book-and-related hero, an Eisner Award-winning comics history writer, putting work back into print that had been unduly forgotten, missed out from the canon or in urgent need of archiving. From religious-themed cartoons to superhero comic The Factor, from Stephen Weiner's analysis of Jeff Smith's Bone, to a facsimile of The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy[...]

Net Gertler and About Comics are bringing Stan Mack's Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution back into print, in the spirit of Horrible Histories. Previously released by larger publishers, NBM and Harper Perennial under the titles Stan Mack's Real Life American Revolution and Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels, About Comics has just released[...]

From religious-themed cartoons to superhero comic The Factor, from Stephen Weiner's analysis of Jeff Smith's Bone, to a facsimile of The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy of note But it is generally sold direct to the customer, or direct to interested bookstores. But now, About Comics is returning to the Direct Market distribution system courtesy[...]

From religious-themed cartoons to The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy of note And now he is not so much publishing a new comic or an old comic but a study of one Stephen Weiner's analysis of Jeff Smith's Bone. Since it started being serialized in 1991, Jeff Smith's masterwork Bone has drawn[...]

Now, this forgotten feature has been collected for the first time in the About Comics paperback Dazzling Diamond Lil'. Nat Gertler is a comic book-and-related hero, an Eisner Award-winning comics history writer, putting work back into print that had been unduly forgotten, missed out from the canon or in urgent need of archiving From religious-themed cartoons,[...]

With all that success, that early book of cartoons has been overlooked… until now. Walt Lardner's Meager Leager courtesy of About Comics Meager Leager, just released by About Comics, is a reprint of that cartoon book When it was first published (under another title that would infringe on a trademark held by a popular youth baseball league,[...]

The typical About Comics publication is put out because About Comics publisher Nat Gertler thinks it's good stuff… but their latest book has an additional reason as well The reprint of a comic book series drawn by Mike Bannon is being published not just because he thinks it's funny stuff, but because both the publisher[...]

When I heard that About Comics was to publish The Beano I was confused I was, naturally thinking this Beano Not the American Beano Because I don't know there was one. For half a century Margaret Ahern created humorous newspaper strips about an impish orphan for The Waifs' Messenger, the monthly publication of The Mission of[...]

About Comics is making Dayenu available once again Dayenu launched in the 1950s in the Jewish Voice, a publication based in Los Angeles, which is where Rabin had various positions including being Executive Director of the Los Angeles Hillel council During the 1960s, Crown published four collections of the gags: Open Your Mouth and Say[...]

He was a "factor" in their lives.  Gertler is now collecting the stories in a new trade paperback, from his own publisher, About Comics, and a new story from Janine Johnston Here's a look at all the people us Johnstons (no relation) are joined by, with stories written by Nat. There are plenty of superhero comics[...]

Future Jam stories appeared from Evil Twin Comics, CO2 Comics, BEM Graphics,, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy and most recently About Comics, collecting Bernard Mireault's first four Jam stories as well as a second issue of The Jam, Urban Adventure: Super Cool, Color-injected, Turbo Adventure from Hell #2. Passing from one independent publisher to the next,[...]

The popular alt-hero series that in the 1990s was published by such respected publishing houses as SLG, Tundra, Caliber, and Dark Horse returns in full color in The Jam Super-Cool Color-Injected Turbo Adventure From Hell issue 2, released today my favourite publisher, About Comics Alongside this, About Comics is also bringing back into print the little-seen[...]

From religious-themed cartoons, to The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy of note And now he has transferred all rights to the comic book Salimba back to comics creator Paul Chadwick, better known for Concrete. Nat Gertler Buys Rights To Salimba, Gives Back To Paul Chadwick Chadwick had co-created the character with writer Stephen Perry[...]

From religious-themed cartoons, to The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy of note And now he has something new, Page Three, another  collection of original comic book scripts for published titles, something that fans of the work and the authors can enjoy, and budding comic book writers can learn from, And[...]

This year is the 70th anniversary of the first appearance of Speck, an energetic young Catholic lad of generally good intent but prone to temptation,

 Nat Gertler of About Comics, which specialises in excavating comic book, cartoon and cultural elements of the twentieth century, has turned to attention to the work of Sergio Aragonés – and some of his seemingly forgotten risque cartoons from decades past Gertler writes, Beloved cartoonist Sergio Aragonés, back in his early years of doing cartoons in[...]

About Comics is a publisher who have dedicated themselves to keeping important publications ignored by many in print This has included collections of non-Peanuts work of Charles Schulz, the novels of Robert Mayer, and a graphic novel The Liberty Project by Kurt Busiek and James W Fry. They also published the The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940, The[...]

As civil rights laws changed the country, making such segregation illegal, so the direct need for the book lessened. But, in a work of archival publication, a comic book publisher About Comics, which specialises in heritage revivals of forgotten works from the likes of Charles Schulz, Kurt Busiek, Bill Mumy and Gail Simone is reprinting The[...]