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Category: Comics

  • Milton Caniff

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    It’s hard to imagine these days, but newspaper comics were once a place where adventure reigned. Alongside genuinely funny humor strips (also hard to imagine in this day of watered-down, milquetoast comics pages where blandness seems a requirement), there were wonderful adventure comics, like Prince Valiant, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, Wash Tubbs, Buzz Sawyer,…

  • DrawerGeeks

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    Now here’s a great idea from a group of artists for an informal series of creative projects that also translates into a fun web site. I can’t sum it up any more succinctly than they do themselves in the first paragraph of their FAQ: “DrawerGeeks is a fun thing we do every other Friday, where…

  • Glen Orbik

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    Somewhere there is a place where the dark corridors and smoke filled rooms of pulp noir crime fiction meet the cape filled skies of comic book super heroes. While there are a number of illustrators and comic book artists who regularly visit that intersection (Jim Steranko comes to mind), most are transients. Glen Orbik is…

  • Spectrum 13

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    I should have written about this sooner, but I have such a long list of goodies to tell you about that it can take a while to get to a particular one. Spectrum 13 (Amazon link) came out a couple of months ago. This is the latest in the Spectrum yearly collections of contemporary fantastic…

  • Carson Van Osten’s Comic Strip Artist’s Kit

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    Most people think of comics as simply a series of illustrations, and of the skill involved as essentially one of drawing. What they don’t see is the art underneath, the art of visual storytelling, which in many ways is more important in comics than outright drawing skill. A person with good visual storytelling skills and…

  • Andy’s Early Comics Archive

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    OK, I’m going to divide you into two groups for this tour. Those of you who think you don’t like comics (possibly because you associate them with bland newspaper strips and endless arrays of costumed superheroes), please get on the bus labeled “Quick Tour”. You should at least take a peak at this, even if…