Friday Night Fights: Iron First vs. Steel Serpent

From Marvel Team-Up #63 (1977). Pencils by John Byrne. Inks & colors by Dave Hunt. Letters by John Costanza. Story by Chris Claremont. (click pic for larger)

Ka-Pow? Kak! Wham! Brow!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We here at YACB wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Unless of course you're a turkey; in which case: RUN!


(Cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #351 by Carl Barks, courtesy of the GCD.)

New Comic Days for the Holidays?

As usual, the holiday season plays havoc with the normal New Comic Wednesday dates. Based on UPS schedules and past experience, here's when I think that the new comic days will be for the next month-and-a-half:

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Friday, January 2, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Can anyone confirm or deny these dates?

Update: According to retailer Brian Hibbs, new comics day for the first full week of January will be on Friday, January 9, 2009 (not Thursday).

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Go-Go looks at a pretty butterfly on Colleen Coover's cover for Banana Sunday #2 (2005).

(Standard disclaimer about indestructible gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Friday Night Fights: Hulk vs. The Thing

From Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 (1974). Art by Rich Buckler & Joe Sinnott. Letters by Artie Simek. Colors by P. Goldberg. Story by Gerry Conway. (click pic for larger)

Ka-Pow? WHAPO!

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Chimps, monkeys and apes with guns? They must be guerillas! It's Brahm Revel's cover to Guerillas #2 (2008).

(Standard disclaimer that not all gun-toting primates are monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Friday Night Fights: Marion Ravenwood vs. Indiana Jones

From Marvel Super Special #18 (1981). Art by John Buscema & Klaus Janson. Script by Walt Simonson, from the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, from the story by George Lucas & Philip Kaufman. (click pic for larger)

Ka-Pow!? Krak!

Gold Digger #100

I thought it worth noting that today sees the release of issue #100 of Fred Perry's Gold Digger comic. It's actually the 154th issue of Gold Digger, as there was an original four-issue mini-series and a fifty-issue black-and-white series prior to the current color series.

Gold Digger is (as far as I know) the longest-running creator-owned comic series by an African-American; and also one of the longest-running creator-owned and -created series ever--to my recollection only Dave Sim's Cerebus (300 issues) surpases it, and Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon (142 issues and counting) is in the same longevity league. Fred does all the writing and art (including color) for each issue, and it comes out (mostly) monthly. That's in addition to various side projects Fred engages in as well.

With its sprawing cast, dense backstory and mythology, and heavily-stylized art Gold Digger may not be for everybody. But if you appreciate a long-running monthly adventure comic with a singular creative vision, you may want to give it a try (There are numerous manga-sized collections available from the publisher, Antarctic Press.)

Veterans Day

(cover by Joe Kubert from Our Army at War #295)

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Native Americans and Colonists band together to fight the giant ape King Colosso on Bob Brown's cover to Tomahawk #86 (1963).

(Standard disclaimer about Revolutionary War-era giant apes not really being monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Shameless Self Promotion: Video Game Archive

In case you've been wondering what's been keeping me so busy these last few months...

There's an article in yesterday's Michigan Daily (the U-M student newspaper) about our Computer & Video Game Archive: "Archive brings games old and new to students"

I've been posting about the goings-on at the archive over at my other blog, Eaten by a Grue.

Edit: Also, this interview with me just went up over at The Video Game Librarian blog.

New Library Comics: Month of October 2008

It's been a very quiet past few weeks on the new library comics front; but here's what we've received:


Cult fiction. / Southbank Centre, UK : Hayward Publishing ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2007.

Forecast / New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2008.

History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels. / Univ Pr of Mississippi 2008.

Juxtapoz. Illustration. / Corte Madera, Calif. : Gingko ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008.

KRAZY! : the delirious world of anime + comics + video games + art / Vancouver, B.C. : Douglas & McIntyre ; Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Art Gallery, c2008.

Pekar, Harvey. Harvey Pekar : conversations / Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Pilcher, Tim. Erotic comics : a graphic history / Lewes : Ilex, 2008.

Pilcher, Tim. Erotic comics : a graphic history from Tijuana bibles to underground comix / New York : Abrams, 2008.

Yars' revenge / Sunnyvale, CA : Atari, c1981.


As always, this listing is available as an RSS Feed.

Monkey Covers

I'm organizing my collection of monkey cover scans with the intention of bringing back the Monkey Covers feature in 2009. But as this particular cover is rather timely, Monkey Covers are back today for a sneak peek!

It's Magilla Gorilla vs. Yogi Bear in the race for the White House on the cover of 1964's Magilla Gorilla #3.

(Standard disclaimer about presidential candidate cartoon gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Don't forget to vote on Tuesday!

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