Pioneer comic book and newspaper strip artist George Tuska died yesterday at the age of 93. It’s hard to imagine an artist with a greater pedigree. Beginning in 1939, George worked on such features as The Avengers, Black Terror, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Captain Marvel (both Fawcett and Marvel), Challengers of the Unknown, Doc Savage,…
Why hasn’t Marge Simpson done a Playboy fold-out? Easy: from the tip of her toes to the top of her head, she’s just too tall. But at least the fabled “Magazine For Men” is doing a pictorial on the teevee queen. And it’s a cover story, to boot. She’s legal, having had three children and…
As we brace ourselves for the new Doctor Who specials, the return of Sarah Jane Adventures, and Matt Smith’s first season, here’s a little gasoline to pour on the fan-fire – my take on the six top moments on Doctor Who. 6. Quiet Time There’s a great moment in the Doctor Who teevee movie, one…
Christie’s auction house in London will be auctioning the 22-inch, well, action figure of King Kong used in the filming of the movie of the same name. In specific, the little guy was used in the Empire State Building scene at the end of the movie. “Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes.” Only the metal…
Jules Feiffer is known for his work as a graphic novelist, a cartoonist, a screenwriter, a novelist, and a playwright – although among comics fans he is perhaps best known as Will Eisner’s long-time assistant on, and oft-time writer of, The Spirit. But in the outside world, he might very well be best known as…
The long-awaited graphic novel Hammer Of The Gods: Mortal Enemy by Mike (Powers) Oeming and Mark Wheatley will be debuting at this week’s Baltimore Comic-Con. All three will be available at the Insight Studios booth, #1911. Furthermore, the remaining 70 copies of the Lone Justice ashcan edition will also be available. Serialized here on ComicMix,…
Back in the days before direct sales and specialty shops overwhelmed comic book sales, you couldn’t find a new comic book on the newsstands to save your soul. The theory was, nobody buys magazines between Christmas and New Years Day, and even now “weekly” magazines like Time and Newsweek skip that week. The fact was,…
The legendary Irwin Hasen, co-creator of DC’s original Wildcat who is best known for his work on the classic newspaper comic strip Dondi, has written and drawn a 128-page graphic novel. Not bad for a guy 91 years old. Loverboy, which purports to be something of a dramatized autobiography, will be released by Vanguard Publishing…
Archie Comics is perhaps the most innovative publisher around these days, although for many comics fans they’re beneath the radar. That’s a shame; folks are missing out on some great stuff. Some fans are aware of their New Look digest books (“Ultimate Archie”?), and Mike Uslan’s Marriage of Archie and Veronica has made headlines. For…
Remember Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg? Roy Crane’s Buz Sawyer and Captain Easy? Alex Toth? How about much of that beautiful black and white art in Warren’s magazines Creepy, Eerie and Blazing Combat? The one thing they all had in common – along with a hell of a lot of other great art – is the…
It’s no secret that top comics writer Mark Millar wants to write the next Superman movie. He’s given lots of interviews, and ComicMix has run a whole bunch of news items about this going back over two years. The story stalled when it appeared such a move was not going to happen. Now, maybe, yes….
For those not in the know, Heeb Magazine is the cleverly titled magazine for mostly young people (and me) of Jewish, and generally Ashkenazi, descent. It’s clever, relevant, and not terribly religious. They regularly cover the comics scene; I know of at least one comics shop that carries the magazine: Comix Revolution in Evanston Illinois….
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