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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 comic books, comic strips, magazine cartoons, or other bits of the cartoon arts The first episode digs up a vital piece of comics history that had gone overlooked for[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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

Once upon a time, I drew a story of two for Nat Gertler and his superhero comic book anthology, The Factor, which ran from 1996 to 1999, a series of stories set in a world where The Factor was its superhero, but the stories were told about other people who his presence affected He was[...]

Nat Gertler is a comic book-and-related hero, 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 The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy of note And now he is looking a Black comics and comic strips[...]

From religious-themed cartoons, to The Green Book, his work as About Comics is always worthy of note.  "We were gearing up to do About's first-ever crowdfunding campaign for these books," explains Nat Gertler of About Comics, "but the crowdfunding service we planned to use made some moves that drove away our fellow publishers and their[...]

In the new book Panel Three: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, just released in paperback and available a few days earlier as part of a Humble Bundle ebook package, some respected comic book and graphic novel creators let you in on their scripts. Put together by Eisner Award-nominated editor Nat Gertler, this book shows you how[...]

 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[...]

Occasionally I've thought of ripping it off and relaunching it. Well, conceptually at least, I've been beaten to it by long time collaborator Nat Gertler With his The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever in which a fifties-style romance comic has been recreated, with missing words, allowing an audience to fill them in with hilarious consequences. Nat writes, The[...]

One new beer will be released each quarter for three years, starting in August with Slavic goddess of beer Ragutiene, whose beer will be a Baltic Porter. A calendar is also planned featuring all 12 of the Steve Rude images, which will be available through Happy Harbor Comics chain in Edmonton. These labels are the latest production[...]

Licensable Bear TM #4, written by Nat Gertler from About Comics, is well known for featuring the first comic book appearance of Barack Obama, when he was but a long-odds candidate for the Democrat nominations. In order to benefit HERO, the charity that raises money for comic book creators in difficult circumstances, About Comics has printed[...]