I’m on a personal quest to discover which comics are still relevant to me today. I’ve loved the form my entire life–particularly the super-hero genre. Over the years, I’ve fallen away from the super-heroes; barbarian phase, independent phase, Vertigo phase, adult phase, and back around to super-heroes again. DC’s New 52 pulled me strongly back [...]
Love it or hate it, the new John Carter movie has spawned a lot of contemporary conversation about the books, comics, illustrations, fanzines–everyone has an opinion! My first exposure to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian tales was in the third or fourth grade. My parents got me one of the editions with the wicked cool Michael [...]
What does this drawing communicate to you? Do you find it overly concerned with the geo-eco-political ramifications of humanity’s obsession with plundering and squandering the natural resources of the world? Does it evoke feelings of despair and disgust at the exploitation of the 3rd world? What I hoped to accomplish with this mashup is a [...]
I thought I’d take a moment to take about Mike Allred, master cartoonist and all-around jazzy guy. He’s working on I, Zombie over at DC/Vertigo these days–probably the niftiest zombie comic ever. I was first exposed to his work many years ago, on a book called Dead Air–crudely drawn (as compared to what he’s capable [...]
So I keep vacillating between love and lovenot for the new 52 titles. I love the fact that DC is revamping their entire universe–well as long as it’s permanent, that is. I’m a little concerned that in Legion of Super Heroes, they refer to this as the “52 Event” in the timestream. Is the new [...]
OK, gentle readers–I know what you’re thinking. Last week, Jerry rails against the sexualization of a couple of DC’s leading ladies; this week, he’s telling you to check out a pinup book! I never said I wasn’t a hypocrite… How many of you dug Batman, the Animated Series? Yeah, me too. What started out as [...]
So I’m an art fanatic. Not just a fan, but a true fanatic. I could differentiate between Boris and Frazetta in the third grade, and could identify big John Buscema’s pencils by the time I read my first Tarzan novel. I’ve loved comics my whole life–I don’t recall a time that they weren’t in my [...]
So, I love comic books. Particularly super-hero comic books. And I love sex. Big surprise there–I’m a dude. I’m not even remotely prudish–ask my friends. I’m likely the anti-prude on any given day, within any given conversation. However, I’m not overly fond of mixing sex with super-hero comics. Hence the point of today’s discussion, [...]
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