Rock and roll often borrows from the wondrous milieu of comic books, adopting costumes, characters, names, and incidental iconography… Album covers, lyrical content, concert posters, concert staging, and even artists’ identities themselves are filtered through four-color prisms, building the mythology…
Tag: Comic Books
MoCCA Festival 2011
Springtime in NYC brings the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art festival: a two-day showcase for all the comic book medium has to offer, with a particular focus on independent publishers and creators. The 2011 fest took place on April…
Comics Through The Years: Angel And The Ape
In the late 50s, DC Comics editors Irwin Donenfeld and Julius Schwartz noted that sales went up every time an one of their comics featured an ape on the cover. Predictably, what followed was a flood of simian-centric issues. By…
Comic Book Mini-Reviews, March 2011
Herculian by Erik Larsen (published by Image Comics) Wow. An oversized thing that looks on the surface like about the most generic superhero comic book imaginable, but inside is anything but. I’m a little torn, on the one hand wishing…
Dwayne McDuffie, 1962-2011
Dwayne McDuffie passed away this morning. Unless you’re a diehard fan of comics or animation, it’s unlikely the his name means anything to you… But he had a huge impact and did a lot of amazing work in those fields;…
Comic Review: “Banimon”.
Banimon is a three issue comic from Rocket North Publishing that I ran across at last year’s New York Comic Con, and after a quick flip through, I purchased all three issues from the creators. It’s a beautiful little publication, and…
From The Archives: Rolling Stone on Marvel Comics, 1971.
Rolling Stone No. 91, September 16, 1971. This is something I’d been wanting to track down for ages, as an interesting historical document, a missing piece of my pop culture education, and just something fun to read. When it was…
Graphic Novel Review: “Return Of The Dapper Men”
Firstly, it’s beautiful. That was my immediate impression when I picked this book: it’s absolutely lovely. Finely detailed, deeply textured paintings; a rich pastel color palate; deeply charming character designs; gold embossed text across the cover; huge sweeping panoramas stretching…