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Post by Rob Allen on May 15, 2024 12:17:32 GMT -5
I just noticed - look at what they're all chanting in the first panel - "Big dog! Big dog! Bow wow wow!". That's a slight modification of Cole Porter's Yale University fight song: "Bulldog! Bulldog! Bow wow wow!". The song was featured in the movie "Night and Day" in 1946, so it would have been reasonably well known when this comic was written.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 15, 2024 11:54:57 GMT -5
I'm curious to know if anyone had this one..... It's an adaptation of a movie, about a pair of real cops. An odd product, for Archie Comics (even with the Red Circle imprint) and an odd film to license. Yes, I bought it when it came out. And yes, it was odd. In real life the duo were nicknamed "Batman and Robin", but the comic doesn't mention that at all, for obvious reasons. There's a vaguely bat-shaped symbol on their shirts in the lower left-hand corner of the cover. The art was well done, by Gray Morrow's usual Red Circle crew - Vicente Alcazar, Carlos Pino, Frank Thorne and Gray himself.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 15, 2024 10:06:36 GMT -5
Lake
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2024 23:10:13 GMT -5
Wife
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2024 21:04:14 GMT -5
Mantle
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2024 16:10:18 GMT -5
Pizza
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2024 12:21:11 GMT -5
This just in, from the comix-scholars list: "Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that my book on Jean Giraud/Moebius, part of the Biographix series, is available for pre-order on the University Press of Mississippi website: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/MoebiusIt's cheap, it looks good and it was a pleasure to write. This is not a straight biography, as it focuses on Moebius's career rather than his life, in an attempt to examine (and question) his status as a "genius" in the field. My working subtitle was "The Genius as Professional", which I still think is a neat encapsulation of what I tried to do. If you're interested, I have a few blog posts in French about the process, including attempts at redrawing various panels in order to understand Moebius's gestures and craft: picturing.hypotheses.org/?s=moebiusI hope you'll like it! Regards, Nicolas Labarre"
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2024 10:46:52 GMT -5
Blackbeard
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2024 12:35:01 GMT -5
Students protesting the war in Gaza recently occupied the library at Portland State University for three days. Yesterday's newspaper brought this: PSU library occupation: Dark Horse Comics collection appears intact, archivist sayswww.oregonlive.com/education/2024/05/psu-library-occupation-dark-horse-comics-collection-appears-intact-archivist-says.html"Portland State University’s popular Dark Horse Comics collection appears intact, though a full inventory must be done to confirm that, the university’s archivist says. Early reports that the collection might have been stolen from Millar Library during a three-day protest occupation likely stemmed from a misunderstanding, said Cristine N. Paschild, the university archivist and head of PSU’s special collections."
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2024 12:25:34 GMT -5
From the letters page of Doom Patrol #119, May-June 1968; Murray Boltinoff, editor.
Dear Editor, I've been wondering some time now what the script and artwork look like. Would appreciate.
Alan Goldsmith Morenci, Mich.
You can stop your wondering, Alan, and join the crowd of curious comic collectors who've been banging on our door. The story resembles a movie script, with each page devoted to individual panels that are broken down into scene descriptions for the artist and the dialogue, which we call, balloons, because of their shape. On Page 1, the introduction is known as the Blurb, and the big illustration, the Splash. The drawings are done on sheets, 10" x 15". The pencils are done first, and after they've been reviewed by the editor, the pages go to the letterer, who inserts the balloons and captions. The inking follows, and the final, complete job is delivered to the editor, who checks out the pages again. From there it goes to the Production Dept., and that's how comic history is made. -Ed.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2024 10:18:54 GMT -5
Board
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Post by Rob Allen on May 10, 2024 0:16:48 GMT -5
License
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Post by Rob Allen on May 9, 2024 19:40:33 GMT -5
Sensibility
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Post by Rob Allen on May 9, 2024 15:21:26 GMT -5
When I see the name "Mark Russell", I still think of the late musical satirist first.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 9, 2024 14:34:31 GMT -5
Times
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