The Seattle Post Intelligencer profiles local comics publisher Fantagraphics. The piece talks about Fantagraphic's popular line of "The Peanuts" and "Dennis the Menace" reprint books and adds this cool tidbit:
Also on their lineup of comics retrospectives: The complete "Pogo" by Walt Kelly and the complete works of Bill Mauldin, whose depictions of the average WWII GI won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
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Jog the Blog shares this prescient observation by comics writer Grant Morrison in a 1987 interview:
On the grim'n'gritty approach to super-heroes exemplified by Alan Moore's "The Watchmen" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns":
I think it's been done by two very good writers, but I think in lesser hands it's going to become really tedious.
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A while back, the excellent Alter Ego mag detailed the story of a lost Superman comics strip by the character's co-creator Jerry Siegel, which introduced the notion of kryptonite and showed Clark Kent revealing to Lois Lane that he was Superman. For real. No foolin'. No "imaginary story." Now the excellent "Superman Through the Ages" site is adapting the script with new, 40-style art. Any true Superfan will wanna check it out. Here's more info about the history of the script, and here's the beginning of the new adaptation. More Superman.
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Dial B for Blog presents some groovy Fawcett Comics house ads.
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20th Century Danny Boy shares some cover art from 1970s British Marvel Comics reprints. More Marvel Comics.
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TV Land celebrates the 40th anniversary of "Star Trek" Sept. 8.
...on Friday, September 8, 2006 -- the very date on which the series first premiered in 1966 ... TV Land will showcase four of the most talked about and best remembered episodes from the series, including the show's premiere and the historic episode featuring TV's first interracial kiss. More Star Trek.
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