One of the all-time finest examples of comic book art is up for auction on Heritage.
Category: Cartooning
A Real Comic Book Character
A short documentary from a few years ago. Well worth watching for comic books fans or anyone who is struggling with age and retirement.
Marvelous Marie
Since the death of Steve Ditko a few months ago we have lost the superb comic book illustrator Russ Heath and former Marvel writer Gary Friedrich, whose run on Sgt. Fury I enjoyed very much. On the same day as Gary’s passing, longtime Marvel artist Marie Severin also passed away.
Now I’ve Seen Everything
My good friend Bismo from B-Movie Blues… on stage at Terrificon in Connecticut… with legendary comic book writer/editor Roy Thomas… doing a couple of Elvis songs?? It was a fantastic scene, and a once-in-a-lifetime event that was straight from the Bizarro World!
For an extra special bonus, before joining the ranks of Elvis impersonators, Thomas visited with my pal Joltin’ Joe Sinnott, who was one of Roy’s most valuable artistic assets at Marvel Comics.
A Randian View of Steve Ditko
An article in The Objectivist Standard has a remembrance of Steve Ditko by someone who seemed to have been inspired by Ditko’s comic book stories to look into the the ideas of Ayn Rand.
Art Deprecation
This is last Sunday’s installment of the “Hi & Lois” comic strip. It made me laugh out loud, but not because of the gag knocking Modern Art. I laughed because of the error. Do you see it?
Yes, that’s right, the Egyptian antiquity of King Tut is actually from the museum gift shop! Okay, so what’s really wrong with this picture? The Arnolfini Portrait, also known as The Arnolfini Wedding, by Jan Van Eyck, is not an example of the Italian Renaissance. It’s one of the finest paintings of the early Northern Flemish (Belgian) Renaissance.
