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Looking Back With Style – The Real Golden Age
Growing up as a kid, I collected comics I didn't just have comics, I collected them I listed out each one I had including the writer and artist on notebook paper and kept it in a three-ring binder Certain artists stood out to me and I knew their names I was probably the only nine-year[...]
Hart Fisher Kicks Off At Dark Horse Over Gerard Way. Again.
And Hart Fisher has a bone to pick. Again. He tells Bloody Disgusting, Gerard Way is a liar and a fake who devalued Boneyard Press products and implied I was a liar by his deceits and instead of owning up to his deceptions he kept on lying and set his fans loose on me for an online hate[...]
Diamond Comic Distributors Launches Best Practice Awards For May
The categories are as follows. Best New Comics Section Best Twitter Presence Best Staff Motivational Program Best TV Ad Best Convention Booth Do you have a comic book retailer who should be encouraged to submit a nomination for their store? And has Larry's Comics already submitted for "Best Twitter Presence"? That is, if "Best" means "most prominent"… I mean who could[...]
Swipe File: Thor And Threadless
But if you combine this T-shirt design from Threadless… With this Strange Tales cover from Marvel Comics. Well, they work as a kind of swipe file flip book, don't they? And doesn't he look like he loves it? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]
Kickstarting The Seventies And Eighties With Jackie Estrada
As I always like to put it, comics people were being pulled kicking and screaming into professionalism For instance, San Diego didn't have its first employee until 1985 I think that was all for the good You still see a lot of clowning around and casualness in the photos from the late 1980s Today, people[...]
TWEETED THEN DELETED: Five Ghosts #12 Cover For Larry's Comics By Rob Guillory
This is the retailer exclusive cover for Larry's Comics for Five Ghosts #12 by Rob Guillory, modelled on the cover to Abbey Road. Tweeted by Larry's Comics then, for some reason, deleted But grabbed by a Little Bleeder first… This is the retailer exclusive cover for Larry's Comics for Five Ghosts #12 by Rob Guillory, modelled[...]
Whatever Happened To Matt Howarth?
Each one thinks they've found the location of a forgotten world, home to fabulous treasures from a bygone age.  But to get there, they will have to deal with alien criminals, unthinkable environments … and each other. A veteran of many comics, such as Green Lantern, Heavy Metal, and Transmetropolitan, Matt Howarth has amazed the world[...]
Goel And Mohanty's Ravanayan Shows That 'Evil' Is Essentially Attractive
The conclusion feels unimportant, though – it's the slow build-up to the very last page that makes the story unforgettable and Ravanayan a complex and many layered narrative force to be reckoned with. A writer with a soft spot for comics, Sreejita quit her job for the love of comics And when she realized that she[...]
A Triumphant Return But A Moment That Doesn't Quite Work In Serenity #1
Georges Jeanty, fresh from extensive duties on the Buffy comics, does great work here too matching characters' postures and mannerisms rather than their faces The result is a book that's never enslaved by likenesses but captures the essence of the characters and the show perfectly It's really smart work and meshes perfectly with Laura Martin's[...]