Lookit these cool Alex Toth pages from 1972, lovely muted jungle colors and dense artwork. Alex Toth is my second favorite comic artist of all time and I have never in my life seen a bad Toth page. Writer Robert Kanigher is most famous for his work with DC war book artists supreme, Joe Kubert…
Archives for december 2010
Dark Horse udgiver Archie Archives vol.1 til april 2011
Vi har taget tilløb nogle gange, først med Archie Publications’ opsamlinger med det bedste fra årtierne, dernæst Dan DeCarlo og Stan Goldberg bøgerne, så avis striben af Bob Montana, og Archie Firsts fra Dark Horse, og nu kommer endelig “Archie Archives”, der genoptrykker de gamle Pep Comics, Jackpot Comics, og Archie Comics kronologisk. Det har aldrig…
Osamu Tezuka: Ayako from Vertical
It’s been a great year for fans of the Japanese pantheon artist Osamu Tezuka. His “Black Jack” series is a success for Vertical both in hc and sc, and now we get this new monster book of Tezuka’s seinen classic from 1972, “Ayako”, his answer to the gekiga comics of the time. Vertical will continue to…
Julekalender 2010: Dan And og Ole Gris!
Så er det 1. december og julekalendertid igen på Seriejournalen. I år handler julekalenderen om DAN AND og hans jagt på skovens farligste dyr, Poulingen. Sammen med sine to venner sejler Dan And op ad åen i sin jagt på det store dyr i åbenbaringen, og du kære læser, kommer med på turen! Seriejournalens knaldhamrende dygtige stab af tegnere…
Fantagraphics will publish The Cabbie: Book One by Marti in July 2011
Spanish artist Marti’s Chester Gould-inspired hardboiled eurocomic, “The Cabbie”, which we got in one album from Catalan Communications back in 1987, is the sort of comic that I never thought we’d see a continuation of in English. But it seems if you wait long enough, anything can happen in the American comic book industry. And next year, on…