Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!
It's Yarn Man vs. Cowboy Gorilla on Don Simpson's cover for Don Simpson's Bizarre Heroes #9 (1995).
(Standard disclaimer about cowboy gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)
Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: Snowmen Attack!
I've collected cover scans for over 1200 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.
Sure, they have songs that call them "Jolly Happy Souls," but you just can't trust those snowmen!
Strange Adventures #79 (1957) (by Gil Kane)
Donald Duck #2 (1984)
Donald Duck #6 (1986)
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (1992) (by Bill Watterson)
Action Comics #116 (1948) (by Ira Yarbrough)
Sure, they have songs that call them "Jolly Happy Souls," but you just can't trust those snowmen!
Strange Adventures #79 (1957) (by Gil Kane)
Donald Duck #2 (1984)
Donald Duck #6 (1986)
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (1992) (by Bill Watterson)
Action Comics #116 (1948) (by Ira Yarbrough)
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 25
For each day of December until Christmas I've been 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.
We finish this season's celebration of Christmas covers with a scene of the nativity from Junior Partners #5.
We'll be back in December 2009 with twenty-five more holiday-themed covers.
(2007: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #194)
(2006: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #35)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 24
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.)
Calvin and Hobbes open their Christmas presents on the cover to the Tommy og Tigern Julehefte 2007 by Bill Watterson.
Come back tomorrow for our final Christmas cover of the year.
Just 1 more 'get-up' until Santa!
(2007: Action Comics #105)
(2006: Dell Four Color #666)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 23
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 Black Cat has fallen asleep waiting for Santa on Ken Selig's cover to The Original Black Cat #8 (1992).
Come back tomorrow for our penultimate Christmas cover of the year.
Just 2 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Dennis the Menace Pocket Full of Fun #22)
(2006: Girls Bravo vol. 6)
(2005: All-New Collectors' Edition #C-53)
(2004: Impulse #34)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 22
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.)
Hey kids: Rags Rabbit is back for the holidays on the cover to Harvey Hits Comics #3 (1987). (I bet you didn't even know he was gone...)
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 3 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Marge's Little Lulu #90)
(2006: Dell Giant #26)
(2005: Man-Thing #3)
(2004: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #9)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
(Lew Stringer's Christmas Comic Covers)
(Jon K's Christmas Comics Cover Countdown)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Christmas Monkee Covers - December 21
For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. In addition, Sunday is Monkee Covers day here at YACB, because there's nothing better than a comic with monkees on the cover!
Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday Monkee 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.)
Celebrate Christmas like a teen-ager in 1968 on the cover of Teen Beam #2. I'm sure that Mike, Davy, Peter & Micky will appreciate it!
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 4 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Bugs Bunny #46)
(2006: Wacky Squirrel #2)
(2005: Archie Giant Series Magazine #15)
(2004: DC Comics Presents #67)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 20
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.)
Celebrate Christmas with Professor Garbanzo, Mr. Spook, Beanish, and the rest of the Beanworld residents on the cover of the brand new Larry Marder's Beanworld Holiday Special.
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 5 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Archie Giant Series Magazine #218)
(2006: 52 week 33)
(2005: Strangers in Paradise #70)
(2004: The Amazing Spider-Man #314)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Friday, December 19, 2008
Friday Night Fights: Earth-2 Superman vs. Post-Crisis Superman
From Infinite Crisis #5 (2006). Art by Jerry Ordway. Letters by Nick J. Napolitano. Colors by Guy Major. Story by Geoff Johns. (click pic for larger)
Ka-Pow? Krashh!
Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: By Dickens!
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.
Nothing says Christmas like sleepless nights, ghosts from your past, and difficult labor-management relations. That must be why Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a favorite this time of year!
Classics Illustrated #16 (1990) (by Gary Gianni)
Classics Illustrated #50 (1997)
King Classics #9 (1977)
March of Comics #33 (ca. late 1940s)
Marvel Classic Comics #36 (1978) (by Bob Hall & Steve Leialoha)
Nothing says Christmas like sleepless nights, ghosts from your past, and difficult labor-management relations. That must be why Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a favorite this time of year!
Classics Illustrated #16 (1990) (by Gary Gianni)
Classics Illustrated #50 (1997)
King Classics #9 (1977)
March of Comics #33 (ca. late 1940s)
Marvel Classic Comics #36 (1978) (by Bob Hall & Steve Leialoha)
Christmas Covers - December 19
Superman and other heroes help Santa Claus pass out presents on Frank Quitely's cover to this year's DCU Holiday Special.
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 6 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Walter Lantz New Funnies #167)
(2006: Omaha the Cat Dancer vol. 2 #1)
(2005: Marvel Comics Super Special #39)
(2004: The Spirit #12)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 18
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 Donald and his nephews on Tony Strobl's cover to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #364 (1971).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 7 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Guy Garder: Warrior #39)
(2006: Impulse #45)
(2005: Adventures of Superman #487)
(2004: Mutt & Jeff #32)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 17
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.)
Dot wraps her presents on the cover to Little Dot #29.
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 8 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Classics Illustrated #53)
(2006: Patrick The Wolf Boy Christmas Special)
(2005: A Patty Cake Christmas)
(2004: Superman #165)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 16
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.)
Montgomery Wart appears to not have learned the lesson about licking cold flagpoles on Mark Martin's cover to Tantalizing Stories #2 (1992).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 9 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Funny Pages vol. 2 #43)
(2006: Katy Keene #33)
(2005: Bone Holiday Special)
(2004: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #76)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Monday, December 15, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 15
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.)
Rudolph helps Santa trim the tree on Rube Grossman's cover to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #7 (1956).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 10 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Donald Duck & Co. #49/1964)
(2006: 2000 A.D. #763)
(2005: Incredible Hulk #378)
(2004: Batman #45)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Christmas Monkey Covers - December 14
For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. In addition, Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB, because there's nothing better than a comic with monkeys on the cover!
Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday Monkey 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.)
Today's selection is Tom-Tom, The Jungle Boy #3, on a cover that might seem very familiar...
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 11 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Sugar & Spike #68)
(2006: Sugar & Spike #38)
(2005: Sugar & Spike #26)
(2004: Sugar & Spike #32)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 13
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.)
Everyone's favorite mischievous tykes spy something they maybe ought not to on Sheldon Mayer's cover to Sugar & Spike #44 (1963).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 12 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Love Hina vol. 6)
(2006: Green Lantern: Mosaic #9)
(2005: Jonah Hex #34)
(2004: Starman #27)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Friday, December 12, 2008
Friday Night Fights: Supergirl vs. Lobo
From Blue Beetle #18 (2007). Art by Rafael Albuquerque. Letters by Pat Brosseau. Colors by Guy Major. Story by John Rogers. (click pic for larger)
Ka-Pow? Kapow!
Friday Christmas Five of a Kind: Santa's Got a Gun!
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.
Peace on Earth? Joy to the World? Goodwill toward Men? Bah! Nothing says Christmas like a well-armed Santa Claus!
Ernie #12 (2000)
Iron Man #254 (1990) (by Bob Layton)
Läderlappen #12 (1980)
Spectacular Spider-Man #112 (1986) (by Kyle Baker)
The Last Christmas #4 (2006) (by Rick Remender)
Peace on Earth? Joy to the World? Goodwill toward Men? Bah! Nothing says Christmas like a well-armed Santa Claus!
Ernie #12 (2000)
Iron Man #254 (1990) (by Bob Layton)
Läderlappen #12 (1980)
Spectacular Spider-Man #112 (1986) (by Kyle Baker)
The Last Christmas #4 (2006) (by Rick Remender)
Christmas Covers - December 12
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.)
A woman ponders an age-old comic book question on Janet L. Hetherington's cover to Eternal Romance #3 (1997).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 13 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Liberty Meadows #24)
(2006: Veronica #6)
(2005: Dell Movie Classic #725)
(2004: Treasure Chest vol. 23 #8)
(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 11
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.)
Santa's elves are on strike on Creig Flessel's cover to More Fun Comics #39 (1939).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 14 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: The Tick: Big Red-N-Green Christmas Spectacle #1)
(2006: The Best of DC #58)
(2005: Batman #27)
(2004: The Brave and the Bold #148)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 10
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.)
We celebrate Christmas manga-style with Yuji Shiozaki's cover to Battle Vixens vol. 9.
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 15 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: The Bakers Meet Jingle Belle)
(2006: A Distant Soil #26)
(2005: Classics Illustrated #15)
(2004: Action Comics #93)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Brendan McKillip's Comic Advent Calendar 2008)
(Brian Cronin's 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar)
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 9
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.)
Roy Rogers meets Santa Claus along the trail on the cover of March of Comics #77.
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 16 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Spaceman Discovers Christmas)
(2006: All-American Comics #10)
(2005: Roy Rogers Comics #49)
(2004: Pogo Possum #11)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
Monday, December 08, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 8
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.)
Santa is bringing presents to all the good little wolf cubs on James Jean's cover to Fables #56 (2007).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 17 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Dell Giant #26)
(2006: X-Men #108)
(2005: Liberty Meadows #29)
(2004: Top Ten #6)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Christmas Monkey Covers - December 7
For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. In addition, Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB, because there's nothing better than a comic with monkeys on the cover!
Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday Monkey 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.)
A little stuffed monkey falls out of Belle's bag on Frank Cho's cover to Jingle Belle's All-Star Holiday Hullabaloo from 2000.
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 18 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: Batman: The Long Halloween #3)
(2006: Sgt. Rock #21)
(2005: Pinky and the Brain #19)
(2004: Alf Holiday Special #1)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Christmas Covers - December 6
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.)
Garfield has a big stocking on Jim Davis's cover to Gustaf #7 (1994).
Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.
Just 19 more 'get-ups' until Santa!
(2007: The Adventures of Superboy #12)
(2006: The Maze Agency #11)
(2005: Spider-Man's Tangled Web #21)
(2004: Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer)
(Polite Dissent's 2008 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
Friday, December 05, 2008
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)
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)
Thursday, December 04, 2008
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)
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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.
As always, this listing is available as an RSS Feed.
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.
As always, this listing is available as an RSS Feed.
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)
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
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)
Monday, December 01, 2008
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)
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