Friday, May 01, 2020

Comics in Film: Apache Kid in Cronenberg's The Dead Zone

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by BK Munn Comics in Film: The Dead Zone (1983). A copy of Apache Kid #53 in a serial killer's bedroom. The comic book appears ...
Friday, April 03, 2020

Comics in Film: Panic in Needle Park, Al Pacino and Bijou Funnies

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by BK Munn Comics in Film: Panic in Needle Park (1971). A heroin junkie reads a copy of Bijou Funnies #4 in a room full of addicts, in...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Comics in Film: Breathless

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by BK Munn Comics in Film: Jean-Paul Belmondo reads a September 1959 edition of the newspaper France-Soir while spying on his character...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Comics in Film: Dick Fulmine and Sophia Loren

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by BK Munn Comics in Film: Sophia Loren reads a 1940s comic book, "Fulmine in Nel Regno dei Pigmei", in the film A Special Da...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Close Shaves in the Comics, Part 1: Shaving Subby!

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by BK Munn Now it can be told: the terrifying tale of talcum, tufts, and trimming that is shaving in the comics! Let's talk about so...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Pussy Katnip by Len Short

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by BK Munn Pussy Katnip was a super-powered nightclub singer and detective who appeared in over 20 comic book stories in the 1940s, mos...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

Burton Cummings, Comic Book Critic

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Superstar rocker Burton Cummings is a big comic book collector, maybe the King of Canadian Comic Book Collectors. He has fond memories of...
Monday, February 03, 2020

Felix the Cat's Drugstore Monopoly

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Sunday, February 02, 2020

Charles Schulz's Extramarital Affair, In Dog Form

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(July 15, 1970) - Snoopy initially meets the "girl-beagle" in the strip the previous week, when he goes back to the Daisy Hill ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Kirby Collaborators: John Berendt

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by BK Munn John Berendt, the writer of the 1967 Esquire piece Kirby illo'd about Jack Ruby, one of my favourite Kirby art jobs, was late...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Kirby and Unions: Captain America Comics #4, 1941

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UNHOLY LEGION Here's an interesting sequence from a very early issue of Captain America where Jack Kirby posits a union leader as...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Article on the 1973 DC Original Art Heist

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Great investigative article from a 1974 fanzine about the massive theft of (never recovered) original art work from the DC comics of...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Jim Starlin on the Comics Guild, circa 1979

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A great old interview with cartoonist Jim Starlin wherein he speaks directly about his involvement with organizing comic creators in the 197...