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Tag Archives: covers
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (9 October 2023)
As the world spirals further into a hellhole of wars, refugees, and climate disasters, I take small pleasures where I can find them… This week’s reminder that comics can be awesome is yet another tribute to Jack Kirby, who spent … Continue reading
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Tagged Artie Simek, covers, Dick Ayers, George Klein, horror, Jack Kirby, Stan Goldberg, Stan Lee
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (2 October 2023)
October’s first reminder that comic books can be awesome is a tribute to the voluptuous femmes fatales who were all over the covers of Golden Age comics:
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Tagged Blue Beetle, covers, Famous Crimes, Jack Kamen, noir, The Spirit, Will Eisner
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On Joe Simon’s covers for Dick Tracy
This week we’re back to spotlighting comic book covers in Gotham Calling. I’m quite fascinated by the work of Joe Simon on the covers of Dick Tracy back in the early 1950s, when monthly issues collected Chester Gould’s iconic daily … Continue reading
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Tagged Chester Gould, covers, Dick Tracy, Joe Simon, Laura Allred, Lee Allred, Michael Avon Oeming, Mike Allred, noir, Rich Tommaso, Taki Soma
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (29 May 2023)
Let’s finish this month’s reminders that comics can be awesome by going back to the ‘90s, when covers raised absurd macho bullshit to hilarious extremes, displaying the kind of shamelessly dumb and eagerly badass attitude still echoed in recent films … Continue reading
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (22 May 2023)
This weeks’ reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to the long history of tank covers at DC:
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Tagged covers, G.I. Combat, Ira Schnapp, Jack Adler, Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, World War II
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (15 May 2023)
Your reminder that comic book covers can be awesome, God Is Dead edition:
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (8 May 2023)
Your reminder that old-school romance comic-book covers can look awesome.
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Tagged Boy Loves Girl, covers, Dick Giordano, Matt Baker, Sweethearts, Teen-Age Temptations, Vince Colletta
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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 May 2023)
In this month’s reminders that comics can be awesome, we’re going back to spotlighting covers. Let’s start with a trio of representative covers from the 1990s which live up to that era’s reputation for violent, ultra-muscled men, highly sexualized women, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapel, covers, Danny Miki, Deathblow, Donald Skinner, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Spawn, Todd McFarlane
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A dozen classic 2000 AD covers
Since this year’s weekly reminders that comics can be awesome have been focusing on splash pages, double spreads, and short sequences of interior artwork, it’s been a while since I’ve highlighted covers, which are actually one of my favorite features … Continue reading
COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (26 December 2022)
This year’s final reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to Batman covers since the New 52 reboot, from the creepy painted photorealism of Alex Ross to the playfully surreal cartooning of Chris Burnham: