Pop Culture Roundup: Mondasian Cybermen; Eisner 100; Plastino's Peanuts

"Doctor Who" actor Peter Capaldi was a fan of the long-running show when he was a kid. And his favorite monsters growing up were the cloth-faced Mondasian Cybermen. Now he faces them in his final season as the Doctor.

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Longtime comics artist/inker Dave Hunt died this week. Comics Beat has a tribute.

March 6 marked the 100th anniversary Will Eisner's birth. This news forum thread pays tribute the the cartoonist with a growing selection of highlights from his work on the Spirit and beyond.

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Meanwhile, Four-Color Shadows remembers the Spirit, 1972.

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Did you know Superman artist Al Plastino was once drafted to takeover "Peanuts" in the event Charles Schulz ever left the strip? Comic Book Resources shares a few of Plastino's never-published strips.

Cool, limited-edition "Kong: Skull Island" poster by Francesco Francavilla

Via Mondo.

Vintage "Captain Marvel Returns" movie serial poster

New Comics March 8, 2017: Dark Horse/DC Justice League; Daredevil Masterworks; New Mutants Epic Collection

Click the links to order titles from Amazon.


Dark Horse Comics/DC Comics: Justice League Volume 2


Daredevil Masterworks Vol. 11


New Mutants Epic Collection: Renewal

Comic art: Batman lithographs by Dick Sprang

Meanwhile, 50 years ago.

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Comic art: Jack Kirby original page "Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe" #9

Pop Focus: Alan Aldridge, illustrated

British illustrator Alan Aldridge, who died Feb. 16, created a bevy of graphic artworks that will forever be associated with the late 1960s and early 1970s, including, perhaps, most famously, his book "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics.

Pop Culture Safari readers are also likely familiar with Aldridge's cover art for The Penguin Book of Comics. He did a lot more besides.

Here is a selection of some of his best:

 

 

 

 

Vintage pic: Dragnet