Thor movie pictures
Here are a couple with Chris Hemsworth as the Thunder God and Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Tom Hiddleston as Loki. Nice to see they're using a Jack Kirby-style design to the movie but I hope they didn't forget the cool helmets!
Pop links: Harvey Pekar, Carl Barks, Bronze Age Marvel Comics
The Comics Journal presents the first installment of a lengthy 1984 interview of cartoonist/writer Harvey Pekar, who passed away earlier this week.
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How Carl Barks was identified as the "good duck artist."
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See a collection of mind-shattering splash pages from Marvel Comics titles published this month in 1975. I miss the Bronze Age.
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How Carl Barks was identified as the "good duck artist."
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See a collection of mind-shattering splash pages from Marvel Comics titles published this month in 1975. I miss the Bronze Age.
Dark Horse to collect Frazetta's White Indian
The artist's longest-running comic book work will be out in hardcover in December:
THE CLASSIC COMICS ARCHIVES VOLUME 1: WHITE INDIAN
Art by Frank Frazetta.
The longest comic-book run of Frank Frazetta's career! First appearing as a backup feature in Durango Kid in 1949, Dan BrandÑknown as the "White Indian"Ñis a colonial-era city boy whose life is marred by tragedy. When the death of his fiancŽe sends Brand through the wilderness on a trek to kill her murderer, he also begins a journey that will transform him into a hardened pioneer survivalist. The powerful sequential work of Frank Frazetta is in the spotlight in this collection, with all interior pages scanned from original comic-book issues and digitally cleaned. This collection reprints all of Frank Frazetta's White Indian work in an affordable hardcover format!
200 pages, $49.99, in stores on Dec. 1.
Elizabeth Banks to star in live-action Tinkerbell film
...says Variety:
Concept for the project, for which the deals are being wrapped up, plays with the mischievous nature of the Tinkerbell character.
First Archie Comics "archive" out in December
...from Dark Horse Comics, of all people. Here's the solicit info:
Archie's first issues, first appearances, and other milestones, collected for the first time in one hardcover volume!
Collects the first Archie story from Pep Comics #1, all of the Archie stories from Archie #1, all the Betty and Veronica stories from Betty and Veronica #1, the first Reggie story from Jackpot Comics #5, all the Reggie stories from Reggie #1, and all the Jughead stories from Jughead #1.
160 pages, $24.99, in stores on Dec. 1.
Archie Firsts
Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, and all the other kids at Riverdale High -- they're more than zany teenagers. They're the flagship characters for one of the most beloved and long-running series in comics history!
This first-ever Archie archive edition is a survey of the first appearance of each major character in the Archie universe, made available at a special low price to appeal to readers from every corner of fandom. Whether you found your Archies at the supermarket checkout or at the first "real" comic-book shop in your hometown, everyone reads and loves Archie comics!
Archie's first issues, first appearances, and other milestones, collected for the first time in one hardcover volume!
Collects the first Archie story from Pep Comics #1, all of the Archie stories from Archie #1, all the Betty and Veronica stories from Betty and Veronica #1, the first Reggie story from Jackpot Comics #5, all the Reggie stories from Reggie #1, and all the Jughead stories from Jughead #1.
160 pages, $24.99, in stores on Dec. 1.
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