Week 37: The Pawn Shop
It was way too cool in Southern Ontario yesterday – 18 Celsius or about 64 Fahrenheit! I love summer, please don’t leave yet! This week I thought I’d try to generate all the splash pages from my eBay pile. Its…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Tag George Tuska
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Week 18: Throw me a Bone
Bone was one of the best comics I’ve ever read, I highly recommend it for all ages. Jeff Smith amazes with this page below using that lightning strike to great effect. One Smith deserves another, Barry Windsor-Smith does stellar work…
Web Arted #344
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Buscema, Klein, Tuska, Shores, Colan, Van Buren, Chaykin.
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Review | The Art of the Simon And Kirby Studio
The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synonymous with comic books, and their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of comics starting in the 1940s. Together they created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman, invented romance comics,…
Pros Under Pressure
After writing the last column which featured the great Daredevil # 45 cover that had Gene Colan inked by Jim Steranko, a couple of other comics came to mind with interesting artist/inker combos. These were unique and rare combinations and…
Web Arted December 4th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Raymond, Byrne, Austin, Wilson, Tuska, Giacoia, Kirby, Colletta.
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Web Arted November 27th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Tuska, Giacoia, Miller, Janson, Frazetta, Stevens, Ditko.
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Web Arted September 18th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Kirby, Mignola, Powell, Colan, Ribic, Williamson, Tuska, Chiaramonte.
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A Vision Of Ultron: Avengers 52-58 & Annual 2
The calendar has flipped over to 2015 and the countdown begins to the second Avengers movie in May. Arcs & Runs will be here to help feed the hype machine with stories about the team, individual members, and of course…
Web Arted Jan 9th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly at the Heritage Comic & Comic Art Signature Auction November 20-22 2014.
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Arcs & Runs #16 | Tales to Astonish and its Offspring
We will bookend our first year of Arcs & Runs by highlighting the final days of the title Tales to Astonish. We started the year with TTA’s sister title Tales of Suspense. Both of these titles began production in 1959.…
Web Arted Nov 7th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days at Hake's Auction 213.
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Web Arted Oct 3rd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly at the ComicLink Summer Featured Auction.
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Cap’s Artist Alley Part One: Captain America 109-113
This eleven issue run has two strong story arcs, and features Rogues gallery of Marvel artists. Early Daredevil and late Original X-Men runs also feature a stellar group of artists in them, however I think they fall just a little short of this one. Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, John Romita, John Buscema, Sal Buscema, and Gene Colan all get a crack at Captain America here. All of the stories are written by Stan Lee. This edition of Arcs and Runs will be as much about the artists as the stories themselves, and will be in two parts.
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