Adrian Dingle Archives • Comic Book Daily

Can We Keep Calling WECA Comic Art second rate?

by Ivan Kocmarek | Jun 14, 2017 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 8 |

It’s hard to contradict the axiom that comic book collecting these days is character driven. In...

Heroes of the Home Front

by Ivan Kocmarek | Apr 19, 2017 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 22 |

Publishing a book is a drawn out and often frustrating process even on top of researching and...

Nelvana

by Ivan Kocmarek | Jul 2, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 8 |

Because it’s Canada Day week I want to do a bit of a more involved special column about the figurehead of the Canadian Whites this time–Nelvana. This mini-skirted, semi-mortal, maid of the Arctic skies has firmly become the totem (the chosen emblem) of the Canadian war-time comics.

A Quest and A Question

by Ivan Kocmarek | Apr 2, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 10 |

As a lot of you may know, I am working on putting together a coffee table-sized book that would feature the main artists of these WECA comics, that is, the Canadian Whites. I’ve got about 10 sections finished and I have submitted a package with the first three sections to Dundurn Publishing in Toronto. I really don’t hold much hope for seeing my cache of fairly arcane information being picked up by a publisher over the next few months, but I will try a couple more (such as Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics). Most likely, my project will only be able to see fruition as a self-published e-book or a book for which a good deal of publishing funding could be raised through an online funding scheme such as Kickstarter.

The Other Woman: John G. Hilkert’s The Wing

by Ivan Kocmarek | Mar 12, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 9 |

The Wing was the creation of John G. Hilkert and first appeared in Joke Comics No. 4 (Sept./Oct. 1942) as the Wing, but if we look closely we can find an appearance of a character (not costumed or super powerful) named Trixie Rogers in a text story written by Hilkert and art by Murray Karn in Dime Comics 5 called “Death Casts a Vote” a couple of months before she put on the costume in Joke Comics.

Get Re-Auroralized!!

by Ivan Kocmarek | Oct 9, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 3 |

Ivan celebrates Nelvana’s crowd funding success, then discusses Canadian Whites and Overstreet.

Bell Reprints and Covers

by Ivan Kocmarek | Sep 19, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 0 |

The first happened during the WECA period itself when, in 1945, Bell Features decided to issue 6 compendiums of stories from earlier issues. These took features already published and brought them together in large (68 pg.) books that sold for 15 cents.