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The Canadian Comic Fan Project, Part 4 This time out, reader submissions to Space Family Robinson: Lost in Space published by Gold Key Comi...

A friend of mine is selling some older Felix the Cat items ebay. Cartoonist and animator Otto Messmer created Felix the Cat for Pat Sulliva...

From Classics Illustrated #68, "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare. 1950/1969. Most likely illustrated by H.C. Kiefer (?) a DC...

Cartoon alcohol is wonderful! Instructions to a box containing the Mr. Bartender bar set.

2) Lost Superman Comic Strip Gems It's not exactly Fletcher Hanks, but the old Superman comics make for fun and often bizarre read...

1) Citations It's always fun to come across early citations of now-common words. For instance, who knew that the earliest cited us...

The Canadian Comic Fan Project, Part Three Where are they now? Today's penpals are concerned with questions meta and multinational. From...

Part 2 of 3 "We're Wolf" by Genevieve Castree Drawn and Quarterly Showcase Three edited by Chris Oliveros D&Q 95 page...

The Canadian Comic Fan Project, Part Two Where are they now? Beloin Chin 53 Stevens Ave Marathon, Ontario (Everything's Archie, Archie G...

"Building a Better Robot World!" Mystery Hoard Promotions presents: ROBO-FEST 2008! Canada's First Trade Show and Conference d...

Current habit: leafing through old Archie comics looking for unusual images. As we all know, Archie comics can take on a uniform look --all ...

Look at him, how he sits there and reads baby stories. Rooting around in the files... Samuel Zagat (1890-1964) was a cartoonist and photogr...

Deborah Eisenberg, the U.S. Alice Munro, was on the CBC last week talking about her latest collection, Twilight of the Superheroes . The t...

Another fundraiser for the Wright Awards . This time around, it's Chester Brown's original pencils for the Wonder Woman page he dona...

Part 1 of 3 by BK Munn It's snowing again this morning, putting me in mind of snow in the comics. Trying to remember my experience...

a propos of nothing: In a truly horrible old issue of the Fantagraphics fanzine Amazing Heroes (cover feature on the 1980s post-Kirby Eter...

Gilded Lilies: Comics & Drawings by Jillian Tamaki Conundrum Press 124 pages ISBN 1-894994-19-1 $20 Cdn/$17 US I find it a source of dai...

Back in the day they made fun comics. Nostalgia for ghosts and monsters. (top to bottom: John Stanley's Melvin Monster , Curt Swan's...

More about the idea of class in mainstream superhero comics, this time from The Absorbascon, a blog that seems to have a thing for the 1980...

Nog a Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedoolia Edited by Marc Bell Conundrum Press 288 pages ISBN 1-894994-16-7 $25 review by BK Munn ...