Thursday, April 24, 2008

Unsung Geniuses: Florence Thomas of ViewMaster

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by BK Munn Most fans of the tiny fantasy worlds glimpsed through the lens of a View-Master viewer are probably unaware of the name Flore...
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Monday, April 07, 2008

Andy Warhol is ... Robin the Boy Wonder!

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From a Batmania-era issue of Esquire magazine, a photo layout of Andy Warhol dressed as Robin and Nico dressed as Batman. Lester Bangs sai...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Jim Mooney, Classic Supergirl Artist

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Jim Mooney, 1919-2008 by BK Munn Wow, less than a week after the amazing news that the Siegel estate has regained the Superman copyr...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Is This the Most Expensive Comic Book Ever?

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Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions Taschen Books 258 pages $700 I saw this beautiful book at the Beguiling last week and can't stop think...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Mystery Hoard: Dr. Seuss's Boners

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Monday, March 24, 2008

Graphic Novel Review: Skim

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Skim words by Mariko Tamaki drawings by Jillian Tamaki Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 143 pages $18.95 review by BK Munn T...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

International Shakespeare in the Comics Day

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March 15 is International Shakespeare in the Comics Day! Top 5 Shakespearean Comics: 1. The Mighty Thor by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Stan intr...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Beware: Shakespeare in the Comics

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March 15 is International Shakespeare in the Comics Day!
Friday, March 07, 2008

Mystery Hoard: Walter Trier

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Walter Trier (1890-1951) Trier was born in Prague but moved to Munich in 1909. He contributed to the German humour a...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Canon II

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As various bloggers are reporting, a new report says there were over 3,300 graphic novels published in the U.S. and Canada in 2007. That...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Mystery Hoard: 1940s Comics Used as Insulation

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This is a fascinating article about a mystery hoard of old paper found in the walls of an building in Grand Bend, Ontario. As the boards a...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Canon Wars

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The Scapegoats of Tomorrow Pity we poor comics canon-builders. Given the raw materials of some Donald Duck comics, political cartoons...
Saturday, March 01, 2008

The List: Lists and the Listing Listers Who List Them: The 100 Best Reviewed Comics of 2007

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Blogger Dick Hyacinth has finally posted his list of 100 comics and graphic novels from the myriad end-of-year "best of" lists, b...
Friday, February 29, 2008

Superman is a Leap Year Baby!

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Comics fans have long known that Superman's extraordinary vitality and youthfulness are due in part to the fact that he celebrates a bir...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Video Link: Stars Wars, by a 3 Year Old

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

What Would Captain America Do?

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Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada is scheduled to appear on the Colbert Report tonight, ostensibly to plug the return of Captain Ame...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

A Second to Wreck It

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Beastie Boys fail to ask the musical question, who's more fascistic, Superman or Lex Luthor?
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

A Strong Enough Uterus

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Kevin Smith's Mallrats: sort of funny as a movie, genius as a Superfriends episode.
Monday, January 21, 2008

Review: I, Otaku

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I, Otaku by Jiro Suzuki Seven Seas 200 pages $9.99 US/$11.00 Can ISBN 978-1-933164-76-2 review by BK Munn I was irresistibly drawn...
Friday, January 18, 2008

That Time is Now

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