Friday Night Fights: Guardians of the Galaxy vs. The Stark

From Guardians of the Galaxy #4 (1990). Story & art by Jim Valentino. Inks by Steve Montano. Letters by Jack Morelli. Colors by Evelyn Stein. (click pics for larger)

Ka-Pow? Chuu Foom Thoom Fwoosh Whakk Pow!

Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: Archie Andrews Gets Busy

I've collected cover scans for over 1000 comics with a Christmas theme, which at 25 per year would take me over 40 years to post them all! So every Friday during December this year I'm posting five theme-related Christmas covers (with apologies to Tom & Bully).

For most people the holiday season is a time for good cheer, shopping for presents, spending time with family, and spiritual reflection.

But for Archie Andrews it's also the perfect time to make time with the ladies!









World of Archie #3 by (Stan Goldberg)
Archie's Christmas Stocking #4 (by Dan DeCarlo)
Archie Giant Series Magazine #159
Archie Giant Series Magazine #10
Archie #580 (by Stan Goldberg)

Christmas Covers - December 5

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Trim the tree with Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four on Stuart Immonen's cover to the 2005 Marvel Holiday Special.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 20 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2007: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #1)
(2006: Animaniacs: A Christmas Special #1)
(2005: Shanda the Panda #14)
(2004: Famous Funnies #125)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
 

Christmas Covers - December 4

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

The heroes of the DCU lend a hand in Santa's workshop on the cover of Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2 (1989) by Stephen DeStefano & Larry Mahlstedt.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 21 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2007: Popular Comics #12)
(2006: Yogi Bear #11)
(2005: The Batman and Robin Adventures #3)
(2004: Dell Four Color #1154)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
 

New Library Comics: Month of November 2008

November was also pretty quiet new library comics front (not to worry, we just got in a bunch this week); here's what we've received:


Baumann, Suzanne. Turtleneck Boy nos. 1-5 / Hamtramck, Mich. : Suzanne Baumann, 1998-

Dewey, Donald, 1940- The art of ill will : the story of American political cartoons / New York : New York University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2008.

Eisner, Will. Expressive anatomy for comics and narrative : principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist / New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.

Jews and American comics : an illustrated history of an American art form / New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008.

Kaplan, Arie. From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books / Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, c2008.

Suzuki, Yasushi. Goths cage / Fremont, Calif. : DrMaster, 2008.

Tobocman, Seth. Disaster and resistance : political comics / Edinburgh : AK, 2008.


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Christmas Covers - December 3

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

The Three Bears are up on the rooftop on David Alvarez's cover to Looney Tunes #97 (1994).

Just 22 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2007: Marvel Holiday Special 1994)
(2006: Tom-Tom and Itchi the Monk #2)
(2005: Marge's Little Lulu #18)
(2004: Superman #369)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

Christmas Covers - December 2

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Sabrina celebrates not only Christmas, but also Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Years on Rex W. Lindsey's cover to Sabrina's Holiday Spectacular #2 (1994).

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 23 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2007: Sabrina, The Teen-Age Witch #77)
(2006: Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series #111)
(2005: Limited Collectors' Edition #C-43)
(2004: Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #9)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

Christmas Covers - December 1

It's time once again for our annual Christmas Covers event: twenty-five more comic covers with a holiday theme, in our little virtual comic book advent calendar.

Hover over the image to reveal today's cover, and click on it to see the larger-sized version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

To kick things off, we have the cover to 1955's Christmas Carnival!

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.

Just 24 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2007: Comic Cavalcade #5)
(2006: Justice League Unlimited #16)
(2005: Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #3)
(2004: Limited Collectors' Edition #C-34)

(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

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.


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