Week 42: Thanks Canada
In honour of our Thanksgiving that just past I’d like to dedicate the week to some great...
Read Moreby Walter Durajlija | Oct 14, 2020 | Making A Splash | 10
In honour of our Thanksgiving that just past I’d like to dedicate the week to some great...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Feb 6, 2019 | Minutiae, Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 19
The Top Ten WECA Covers A recent movement that has risen to the surface in comic book collecting...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Apr 4, 2018 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 7
News Winter’s finally behind us and let’s see where we’re at. I’ve come to the very end of working...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Mar 23, 2016 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 6
You may think that the above picture is some sort of study from Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” but it’s...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jul 30, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 5
In late 1944, Steele seemed to have come up with the idea of doing cut-out masks of a few of the lead Bell characters on the inside covers of some of the Bell Features books. We modern collectors look back somewhat aghast on this because, just like Bell’s placement of cut-out coupons in similar locations, it must have led to wanton disfigurement of many of these books, but such were the ways of the world back then towards something that was seen as ultimately disposable and easily remaindered. Steele signed these “fathead” portraits with his shortened monogram “TAS.”
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jan 29, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2
My last post was on the “toony” side of Vancouver’s Maple Leaf Publications and in it I stated that there were no real toons in Montreal’s Educational Projects Publishers. I now want to qualify that since I’ve been able to find three fillers that might qualify.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Sep 12, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 3
Let me then try to point to a few times in the WECA books that specifically locate the action on Canadian soil or at least, in some way, make it clear that the story is taking place in Canada or, finally, directly connect the story to Canada.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Apr 4, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 10
Ted(d) Steele With April Fool’s day just passing by, I want to bring attention to perhaps the...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jan 10, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2
Hockey is back!! In appreciation of this, I want to share a relevant WECA splash. It’s a good...
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