Comic of the day: Alpha Flight #6

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How’s your day going?
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) announced yesterday via a press release that they will be closing its physical location effective immediately. The SoHo museum, currently at 594 Broadway, New York Cityâs only cultural institution dedicated specifically to celebrating the comics medium, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. While the physical space is closing,…
We all know and love Dinosaur Comics, right? That wonderful little strip started in 2003 from that Canadian fellow Ryan North that takes the same images of dinosaurs and uses them over and over again as they engage in humorous conversation? Ah, but did you know that in prehistoric times (okay, seventeen years earlier) another…
Art: Diana Leto Art: Thomas Boatwright The World’s Weirdest Heroes, The Halloween Legion, excitedly anticipate their upcoming comics debut in their first graphic novel, with stories written by Martin Powell and illustrated by Diana Leto and Thomas Boatwright. Coming soon from Sequential Pulp Comics and Dark Horse Comics. THE HALLOWEEN LEGION Book One novel is…
ALL PULP REVIEWS- Reviews by Ron Fortier THE LONE RANGER VENDETTA By Howard Hopkins Moonstone Books 124 pages It is somehow appropriate that the very first title in Moonstone Book’s new line of small paperback novellas would be the late Howard Hopkins, “The Lone Ranger – Vendetta.” Howard, who passed away unexpectedly last winter at…
Eisner-Award winning writer/artist Darwyn Cooke brings Richard Stark’s Parker: Slayground to stores in December for IDW. The cover was released in time for San Diego Comic Con. More details as they are released. Learn more about Richard Stark’s Parker here.
Let’s say there was a little-known Disney comic: Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories: Mickey’s Quest, which was published somewhere obscure for most of the 1960s and entirely forgotten since then. And let’s say there was a serial in that comic, called “Mickey’s Craziest Adventures,” a single page a month for almost that entire decade, with…
Single best issue of Assistant Editors’ Month.
Five and a half pages of Snowbird fighting an ancient snow monster in the middle of a blizzard.
In other words, Five and a half pages of nothing by word balloons, captions and sound effects.
A joke originally done in ONE PANEL in What If? 34, dragged out to five and a half pages.
Brilliant.
I always thought it would be interesting to get a bunch of artists to fill in those panels, and see how closely the interpretations matched up. It would be an excellent example of how balloon placements and sound effects suggest action.
Did John get full cover rate for that one? If so, then DC owes me for Wasteland #6.