by Tom Batiuk | Apr 14, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
It was at the Akron Comicon that fall that I approached Joe Staton about doing the first cover, and I couldn’t have made a better call. Joe was best known for his decades of work on DC Comics, where he worked on characters like Batman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 10, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
The second “big story” happened in the fall of 2012, and it took my Holy Grail thread to a new place. I had been using the old comic book covers in my Sunday strips to give a nod to the comic book artists I had admired as a youth, and that particular string was pretty...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 4, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
When you do something like climb a mountain, you take a ton of pictures. So researching the story wasn’t ever going to be a problem, but knowing in advance that I would now be writing about the experience certainly influenced the pictures I took. However, the...
by Tom Batiuk | Mar 26, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
There are two remaining “big stories” that require a slightly deeper dive. As I related in a previous volume in this collection, following my auto accident, as a means of working my way back to full strength, Cathy and I began to train to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro with...
by Tom Batiuk | Mar 20, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
Second, I had built churches cathedrals on top of a lot of running themes and tropes that had served me very well but that I now continued to tear down and leave behind. For example, losing had always been a tried-and-true theme in Funky. Readers identified with...
