Look Out! Monsters News
Item! In February of this year I received a University grant to help me publish a follow-up to Look Out! Monsters – and by this time next year that book … Continue reading Look Out! Monsters News
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"The Making of Look Out! Monsters at Comicmonsters.com
If you’re one of the millions, billions who’ve purchased “Look Out!Monsters” only to ask-“what the?”–then fret no more! “The Making of Look Out! Monsters” is now a feature article at … Continue reading "The Making of Look Out! Monsters at Comicmonsters.com
Nice Work updates on Fridays!
1961! Kennedy! the Mob! Castro! in The Wild, Wild West with Johnny Cat, Sinatra-stand-in supreme! Every Friday at Modern Tales and Webcomicsnation! Here’s a taste:
Frank Robbins saves the NYC Comic-Con
Lissen, I didn’t have a great NYC Comic-Con. Sales were slow, and I was wearing some kind of invisibility cloak or something-I don’t know. How do you make the best … Continue reading Frank Robbins saves the NYC Comic-Con
Look Out!Monsters at Comicmonsters.com
One of the nicer moments at NYC Comic-con was being introduced toRob Caprilozzi and his wife and their website: http://www.comicmonsters.com/ , where you will find everything you ever wanted to … Continue reading Look Out!Monsters at Comicmonsters.com
Life after Previews
Leave it to me to start a publishing company during an economic avalanche and at the same time that print is sounding its death knell. Not to mention that the … Continue reading Life after Previews
Patrick McGoohan
There was nothing like “The Prisoner” on television in 1968. There is still very little that compares to it today–in its deliberate quirkiness, its refusal to follow the established formula … Continue reading Patrick McGoohan
Ditko’s World
Whew! I just finished Blake Bell’s Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko–and not soon enough. Not for any fault of Blake Bell’s-who has produced an attractive, detailed and … Continue reading Ditko’s World
Btwn the Lns 2: questions and answers;Hopper and Rockwell
In interviews over the years Neal Adams has voiced his admiration for the work of Norman Rockwell, describing him as a consummate story-teller. On that score you get no argument … Continue reading Btwn the Lns 2: questions and answers;Hopper and Rockwell
Btwn the Lns:Illustration, Comics and "A"rt; Part 1
In so far as comics are an imagistic art, there remains a relationship to illustration that is worth examining-not so much for the historical ties( which are well-documented) … Continue reading Btwn the Lns:Illustration, Comics and "A"rt; Part 1
Comic Book Ghosts of Christmas Past Give up the Ghost to Comics of Christmas Present(s)
maybe this is a lame way to kick off this blog–aging boomer, waxing nostalgic about comics of past Christmases-(Jeez! isn’t that enough to make you wretch? or at least yawn…). … Continue reading Comic Book Ghosts of Christmas Past Give up the Ghost to Comics of Christmas Present(s)
Geoff Grogan 