Comic Books

THE YELLOW KID BEGAT WOLVERINE

Early comic books offered little original material. Instead, they reprinted comic strips collected from the newspapers. Thus, we can say--with just ...

RUSS MANNING RETURNS TO PRINT

The late Russ Manning was a master of the clean-line style of drawing in the United States during the so-called Silver Age of comics--the 1960s and ...

TOYS AND COMICS

The combination of toys and comics seems a natural one these days, but it wasn't always so. The first superhero action figure to earn its own comic ...

TREASURES FROM THE BARGAIN BIN: THE GRACKLE

Prompted by the success of Quentin Tarrantino's crime movies (RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION) and the popularity of Frank Miller's SIN CITY, a ...

WARREN ELLIS: GRITTY MASTER

The recent scripting of Warren Ellis has been hailed as highly as that of fellow Brit Alan Moore during the 1980s. Ellis specializes in gritty, ...

LIBERTY MEADOWS

Insight Studios Group is publishing Frank Cho's LIBERTY MEADOWS newspaper comic strip as a bimonthly comic book. Each issue collects about eight ...

IT AIN'T MOON RIVER, BUT--

"All art strives to the condition of music." That's a high-falutin' quote from Walter Pater, who never read a comic book in his life. But keep the ...