Today, comic book fans may recall Warren Beatty’s adaptation of Dick Tracy as a memorable misfire. When it was released in 1990, it was met with, at best, mixed reviews and while it performed respectably at the box office, missed Walt Disney’s estimates so the hoped for franchise was stillborn. Blame could be squarely placed…
As part of the upcoming November 29th sale of Pop Culture merchandise at Christieâs Auctions are two pieces of original artwork for the syndicated Tarzan comic strip from the series Tarzan Against Dagga Ramba and Tarzan And The Barbarians by legendary Tarzan artist Burne Hogarth. PRESS RELEASE: POP CULTURELondon, South KensingtonNov 29, 2012Sale 7401 Art:…
All New Tarzan Comic Strips created exclusively for www.edgarriceburroughs.com/comics, the first new Tarzan comic strips in over a decade, are available when you subscribe for only $1.99/month. Login any time to see the Newest Tarzan Comic Strip [with Bonus Material included] and also all previous New Tarzan Strips. Edgar Rice Burroughs Comic Service is here….
A new Tarzan strip is on the way. Learn more here. Read the recent All Pulp interviews with Tarzan 2012 comic strip writer Roy Thomas and artist Tom Grindberg.
Today’s xkcd comic, unless someone can convince me otherwise, now holds the record for the biggest comic panel ever. Fittingly, the strip is called “Click and drag” and you’ll have to do a LOT of it to read the entire thing. At 165888 x 79872 pixels, or 1.3 terapixels, the image would fill the screens…
Art: James Burns Here’s a sneak peek at the upcoming Lance Star: Sky Ranger weekly web strip from New Pulp creators Bobby Nash and James Burns, the same team that brought you the Lance Star: Sky Ranger comic book “One Shot!” “We’re still early in the process of creating the strips so it’s not quite…
Terry Beatty, artist of the Phantom Sunday newspaper strips is offering some of his Phantom artwork for sale in order to raise the funds to replace the computer he uses to digitally pencil, letter and color the strip. From Terry’s blog:The process here is that I print the pencils (done in Manga Studio) in blue…
The Platonic ideal of the comic is precisely balanced between art and words, each as exquisite and precise and lovely as the other. And there might actually be one or two comics that come within spitting distance of that, but not much more: it’s an ideal because it really doesn’t happen. Every comic, like every…
As if to offer a bookend to last week’s column about Neil Gaiman and creativity, Amazon delivered Alison Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. A companion to her harrowing and brilliant previous book, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was about her father’s life in the closet and eventual suicide, Are…
At long last– Round 4! Sorry it took a while, some of the donations for votes came in without saying who the money was going for, so we wanted to wait until we could come to final totals. So far, we’ve raised over $650 for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund— and we’re down to…
This year’s Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament was incredibly popular, but we did state that we weren’t including comics that can best be put under the heading of “not safe for work”. But there are a lot of good webcomics that fall in that category, and strips like Oglaf and Menage a 3 shouldn’t be…
The erstwhile “Berke” Breathed, who at some point in the last two decades learned what a “berk” was in British slang and decided to extend his professional name, presents one of the most interesting and stark success stories in the history of modern American strip comics: he lept to fame with Bloom County, almost from…
