Mystery Hoard

by BK Munn In honour of the 70th anniversary of the appearance of the Superman character in comic books, Mystery Hoard presents the first ...

I take it back. A while ago I wondered if this Taschen collection of Robert Crumb sex stories was the most expensive comic book ever. Thi...

I just noticed that the ads that appeared at the top of my last post were for Wonder Woman Costumes and Supergirl Underwear and Loungewear. ...

The Animated Corpse of the Working Class by BK Munn We search in vain for examples of the working class superhero. With few excepti...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

March 15 is International Shakespeare in the Comics Day!

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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