It was, for its time, the coolest comic book on the racks. Lucky for me, having just turned eight years old I was at the perfect age to best enjoy it. In fact, I already was lusting for the comic by the time it hit my local drug store. The house ad promoting the issue…
You’ve probably seen the second Superhero Fight Club by now; if you haven’t and you’ve got four minutes to spare, go <a href=” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpE7Jdk8hw give this a click. It’s great fun, not necessarly part of The DC-CW continuity, and it brings Supergirl in to play with the boys. And Felicity, of course. SPOILER ALERT! (I’ve always…
The world lost just lost another shining light: a brilliant artist who regularly shared his vision of heroes and adventures as he created countless pages of comics and an upstanding gentleman who shared his vision of living life with courtesy, kindness and class as he led by example. Murphy Anderson passed away Friday at age…
The High School Of Art & Design (A&D) was where I studied illustration and where countless great comic book, animation and illustration artists learned their craft, including Carmine Infantino, John Romita Sr., Dick Giordano, Ralph Bakshi, Neal Adams, Larry Hama, Denys Cowan, Mark Texeira, Malcolm Jones III, Frank Brunner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Joe Jusko, Mike Carlin…
The latest issue of Roy Thomas’s fine magazine Alter-Ego arrived in today’s mail. This one was dedicated to the late Joe Kubert, who died some seven months ago. It arrives a couple of days after I learned of the passing of Joe’s contemporary (and my ex-boss) Carmine Infantino. The synchronicity is odd and painful. These…
Carmine Infantino, the legendary artist, editor, and co-creator of the Black Canary, the Barry Allen Flash, Elongated Man, Deadman, Human Target, and Batgirl, and onetime publisher of DC Comics has passed away at the age of 87. Carmine was born in his family’s apartment in Brooklyn, NY, on May 24, 1925. He started working for comics…
Fox is working on a pilot for the Human Target, based on the cult DC Comics character Christopher Chance, created by Len Wein, Carmine Infantino, and ComicMix contributor Dick Giordano. Christopher Chance operates by impersonating his clients in order to eliminate threats to them, making himself the target. The character first appeared in Action Comics…
Flash Fact: Born in 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, Carmine Infantino might have been expected to go into music—his father was a musician, though he also worked as a plumber—but turned to art instead. While still in high school Infantino started working for Harry Chesler’s comic-book packager. Next he became an art assistant at Quality…
We’re here at the Pittsburgh Comiccon – sorry we’re a bit late, but we’ve been doing all sorts of interviews and we’ve got some amazing stuff we’ll be telling you about today and in Big ComicMix Broadcasts to come. As always, we’ve got the latest comics and media news and an interview with legendary Flash…
Jimmy Gimli gives us a first look for Free Comic Day, Carmine Infantino says there’s too much sex in comics, and the Isley Brothers riff on Bruce Willis — all this, plus validated parking in this edition of the ComicMix podcast. Click here to listen: Transcript www.ComicMix.com ComicMix It was a lot of little things….
