Ostrander Auction: ‘Detective Comics’ #768 page 22 from Steve Lieber with Batman

I have two ways I could start with today’s book, neither of which has much to do with the book itself. I could mention I read another graphic novel by Renaud Dillies a decade ago, Bubbles & Gondola , and only vaguely remembered it when I saw a thumbnail image of the B&G cover at…
We noted back on Monday that Craig Ferguson had been touting on CBS’s Late Late Show had been pushing a show called Ghost Chimp, M.D. — a show that seemed to be exactly like an idea that Kyle Baker had developed for CBS back in the 90’s, and wrote up for an article in Vibe…
Arcana Comics’ Gearhead has been option for a feature film by Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures. The graphic novel was created by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon and originally appeared as a miniseries prior to trade collection. Variety says the “story revolves around a young woman who leaves the drag strip to team up…
The fourth collection of Stan Sakai’s long-running Usagi Yojimbo series collects a long – some would say “epic” – storyline that started in 1989 and ran through six issues of the comic. It’s largely the “gather all of the popular, previously separate, supporting characters” arc, and it has the same largely historical accurate but softened for…
Only two days and counting until the next exciting phase of ComicMix debuts! Lots of familiar names with brand-new comics work, a couple of whom also double as regular columnists. Speaking of which, here are our contributions from the last week of September: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #33: Enough Is Enough Dennis O’Neil –…
Back in the mid-70s the astonishingly gifted Neal Adams pointed out – in context of something else – that the issues of Detective Comics he drew outsold those Frank Robbins drew. Let me state: Neal was not putting Frank’s work down. Nonetheless, I felt that comment lacked veracity, so – being an honest-to-Crom obnoxious brat…