by tombatiuk | Apr 21, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
When King Features was shopping Lisa’s Story to the New York book companies, two of the publishers they approached were Penguin Putnam and NBM. NBM was and is a publisher of graphic arts collections, and was a pretty small operation at the time. So when Penguin...
by tombatiuk | Apr 15, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Not much to say here other than ‘enjoy’.
by tombatiuk | Mar 31, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Let’s talk art here for a moment. First, you can never go wrong with a Gil Kane cover, especially one inked by Dick Giordano. However, the bigger and very pleasant surprise comes inside the book where we find that Dennis Jensen, who came on board as inker a...
by tombatiuk | Mar 25, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
If this Sandman cover didn’t make you buy the book, it would at least make you pick it up off the rack and leaf through it. While the subject matter may not be to my particular taste, it’s still undeniably cool.
by tombatiuk | Mar 24, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
The kid from Dayton who grew up to write the book he loved, Cary Bates, and the editor who at the Tony Isabella driveway con said that The Flash was the book that influenced him the most as a youth, Mike Barr, both look fondly back to the Flash’s Silver era for...
