Yearly Archive: 2008

"Once more into the breech," in the immortal words of the Human Cannonball. And no, you aren’t going to get puns of a better caliber.

• Wolverine comics from the 1950s. (Via Avram Grumer.)
• The works of Richard Mullins— it may be fine art, but somehow I don’t see this guy getting the job pencilling Action Comics anytime soon.
• Via Johanna, we learn that Newsarama is rebuilding, and may be wrecking a lot of their existing infrastructure to do so. Good luck with that, fellas.
• Brad Guigar shows how to Unshark Mask in Photoshop. A handy skill when you least expect it.
• Want to do nothing but lie around for 90 days reading comics? NASA might pay you to do it.
• The other career of Alex Ross. And then he photographs himself to paint himself to…
• Lt. Worf endorses Barack Obama:

I am moved by the story of his humble origins, his absent Kenyan father, his mother working to make ends meet, and growing up without his father in an environment where his racial identity was unclear.  After all, I, Lieutenant Worf, am a Klingon by birth, but raised by Caucasian humans, the Rozhenkos, on the farm world of Gault.  So I know a little bit about absent fathers, and being a dark-skinned man, looked upon as an alien in a white world.

• A former voice actor for Peanuts specials is a candidate for a school board. His platform? "Waa waa WAA waa waa…"
• In a switch, Jessica Alba wants to stare at you.
• And finally, Rating The Super Hunks. I’ll take Rachel’s word for it, but bear in mind she thinks the guy in the Iron Man costume is worth marrying.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1956, David Victor “Dave” Sim dropped out of high school to pursue a career in comic books.

In the 1970s he worked on a fanzine, The Now and Then Times (Now and Then Books was the comic book store Sim had worked at for his first job) and then another called Comic Art News and Reviews. He worked for several other fanzines, wrote a newspaper strip, and produced several small-press comics.

In 1977, Sim began self-publishing Cerebus, a black-and-white comic about a dark medieval world and a cynical and violent aardvark (originally parodied on Conan the Barbarian). In 2004 Sim completed his planned 300-issue run of Cerebus.

In 2006, he began an online comic biography of the Canadian actress Siu Ta. He is now working on two new projects, a Holocaust book called Judenhass and a women’s fashion comic book called glamorpuss.

Sim won an Eisner Award in 1994, a Harvey Award in 1992, a Kirby in 1985 and 1987, and several other accolades. He is considered by many to be the king of independent comics, having produced the longest-running independent comic of all time.

Remember when we told you that comic publisher UDON was working on a 20th Anniversary art book for the popular Street Fighter franchise? Well, UDON’s website is taking preorders on Street Fighter Tribute and gave some details on the book.

By far the most surprising aspect of the title is its $80 price tag. Even though it’s a 320-page hardcover, you can expect most fans’ jaws to drop at such a steep price. If you don’t mind the cost, the rest of the book should be pretty appealing.

Street Fighter Tribute measures 8.25 x 11.25 inches and features work by UDON regulars Arnold Tsang, Alvin Lee, Omar Dgan, Jeff "Chamba" Cruz and Joe Ng, as well as comic celebs like Adam Hughes and J. Scott Campbell.

Even Gabe from Penny-Arcade.com is in there, representing  the webcomic side of the industry.

Sample artwork is provided after the jump: (more…)