There can be no doubt that in the 1930s, many comic strip artists imitated the great Alex Raymond. I forget where I first read it, but Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) once visited Raymond’s studio in Connecticut, only to find Raymond copying a drawing of a horse from one of Foster’s strips. Foster’s response was “Alex, …
This will be a day long remembered. (Okay, so this is not a blog about Star Wars, but I had to make it epic somehow!) At long last, after many years of admiring Steve Rude the Dude’s artwork on Superman, and resolving some time ago to purchase a commission from him one day, last October …
After waiting a few years for the Library of American Comics to release the initial Superman Sundays in a new edition themselves (given how great of a job they do!) I finally caved and bought a cheap copy of the Sterling hardcover off eBay. Although I’ll definitely buy it again if released by LOAC! I …
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I’m wrapping up the Rebirth Revisited series with one of my favorite types of articles to write, a top ten list. This took some doing, as there are many good stories in Rebirth and very consistent quality, so a lot of these were splitting hairs. Even so, I thought it might be fun to put …
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“Totally unnecessary.” That was Peter Tomasi’s answer when asked what he thought of the trend of the dark, brooding superhero. In an interview at a con which happened to coincide with the release of BvS, when that answer was given, fans had already latched onto Tomasi and Gleason’s Superman Rebirth book. The story about Superman’s …
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