Tag Archives: Anthony Tollin

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (11 March 2024)

This week’s reminder that comic book covers can be awesome is a tribute to superhero yarns, the most quintessential of the medium’s genres. Sure, superheroes have had their fair share of ventures into the big and small screens (from the … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (22 January 2024)

This is what the inside of my head looks like:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (19 December 2022)

A reminder that the perspective and framing of comic book covers can be awesome:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (24 October 2022)

This week’s reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to my favorite era of Batman comics, between Crisis on Infinite Earths and The New 52 reboot. At first glance, covers at the time might appear increasingly generic about … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (22 August 2022)

I hope to be back with longer posts next month… Meanwhile, this week’s reminder that comics can be awesome pays tribute to covers that spotlight Batman’s unrivalled Rogues Gallery:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (11 July 2022)

In the turn toward the 1970s, Batman comics grew moodier, with more realistic designs and a less campy feel than the stuff coming out in the previous decades. Creators like Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams, and Frank Robbins clearly sought distance … Continue reading

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15 superhero horror covers

Just because the weekly COMICS CAN BE AWESOME section has moved back to focusing on splash pages, it doesn’t mean Gotham Calling won’t continue to spotlight cool covers every once in a while… Here is a selection of fifteen eerie … Continue reading

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Spotlight on Denny O’Neil’s and Mike Kaluta’s The Shadow

Like I mentioned in the blog’s latest manifesto, Gotham Calling is no longer focusing primarily on Batman comics, but that doesn’t mean we’re moving too far way… For instance, this week we’ll have a look at another DC comic featuring … Continue reading

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Spotlight on The Shadow Strikes!

The mid-to-late ‘80s were the true golden age of comic books. For a few years, the industry was set on trying out all kinds of ideas and outright bombarding readers with one memorable comic after another, featuring both new and … Continue reading

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Messing around with Batman’s logo

In my world-changing countdown of Ed Hannigan’s Batman covers, I mentioned how much I love it when he put a spin on the series’ logo. Yet Hannigan, God’s gift to cover artists that he undoubtedly is, was hardly the only … Continue reading

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