Frankenstein’s Monster in Bronze Age Comics: 1975-1986
If you missed the last one…. The rest of the Bronze Age, 1975 to 1986, is a scattered and largely unimpressive collection. The Frankenstein boom Read More
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The History of Fantasy – Homeric Comics
Homeric Comics are a thing. Really. Amazing Mystery Funnies #20 (May 1940) presented this one-page filler: The unknown author really wants to make the point Read More
Nick Cuti and Sword & Sorcery
Nicola Cuti (1944-2020) was born in Brooklyn. He was an airman in the military before working with Ralph Bakshi at the Krantz Animation Studio. He Read More
Second-Hand Sword & Sorcery: Avalon’s Barbarians
Reprints of 1970s material in the 1990s gave us second-hand Sword & Sorcery. Avalon Communications, a Canadian company, published two issues of Barbarians in 1998. Read More
Andrew J. Offutt’s Conan Trilogy 1: Conan and the Sorcerer
No Stranger to Howard Andrew J. Offutt was no stranger to Robert E. Howard’s work in 1978 when he began his trilogy of Conan novels. Read More
End of a Warren Era: Bill DuBay
The end of the Warren magazine run was ushered in by Bill DuBay as editor. Bill started with Warren in 1973 as editor and writer. Read More
Live Nude Girls
I imagine I have your attention now. The nude in art is, according to art historians, an almost exclusively Western phenomenon. Ancient Greeks made statues Read More
The Barbarian and the Line
The Barbarian and the Line belong together. The heroic figure offers the fantastic artist such a pleasure of riches. I remember encountering such sketches for Read More