www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20... Sorry to hear about the passing of Mort Todd. Small part of his long and varied career were his interactions with Ditko (as writer, editor, publisher, inker, colourist, etc). I post about some of them at ditko.blogspot.com/2025/08/mort...

Countdown to Steve Ditko's 100th Birthday: 939 days ditkoverse.com www.indiegogo.com/projects/ste...

Been re-reading the 1994-1995 run of Groo from Image, and I always loved how Sergio Aragones had Groo interacting with the Image logo on most of that run (not so much on #2 for some reason...)

Rick Veitch & I did this cover for DR. WIRTHAM'S COMIX & STORIES #5/6 (double-issue), including hand-done color seps (which I don't have handy). The flipside cover was by the late great Greg Irons, one of my heroes! __ ©1979, 2025 Rick Veitch & Stephen R. Bissette/Creative Burnouts

In 1943 Robert Kanigher wrote HOW TO MAKE MONEY WRITING FOR COMICS MAGAZINES. It was republished in an expanded form in 2023, reviewed here: fourrealities.blogspot.com/2023/10/robe...

Just arrived straight from a printing press in Alberta, Rick Veitch's BONG! COMIX, with rarities like TWO-FISTED ZOMBIES (with Tom Veitch), various Stephen Bissette collaborations and other stuff ISBN-13 ‎979-8838394170

Voted in the Ontario provincial election today. I know it's a largely futile gesture, but living in a riding where Doug Ford is my actual MPP I at least got the pleasure of voting against him by name. Come on Etobicoke North, even if we can't win the whole thing, isn't it worth it to embarrass Ford

An unofficial index to The Comics newsletter (1990-present) comicsindex.blogspot.com

Sheldon Mayer Sugar & Spike #6 [1957]

So, not only is this 1972 THE COMIC READER cover of Jack Kirby's Demon Etrigan drawn by Don Rosa (@donrosa.org) drop dead gorgeous, but note the August 1972 date. First issue of the series only came out in June of 1972, so this is a very early fan drawing of the character

On Jan Strnad (@janstrnad.bsky.social) and Dennis Fujitake's DALGODA, an old favourite newly reprinted by @nat.gertler.com at About Comics fourrealities.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

New DALGODA collection by Dennis Fujitake and Jan Strnad from About Comics, along with prior reprints of DALGODA backup features Grimwood's Daughter (Strnad and Kevin Nowlan) and Bojeffries Saga (Steve Parkhouse and Alan Moore). Halfway through re-reading Dalgoda, more soon

Good to hear that the Dennis Fujitake and Jan Strnad 1980s classic DALGODA is getting a comprehensive reprint of all twelve issues plus a few scattered short stories. Publisher :‎ About Comics Paperback‏ : ‎359 pages ISBN-10 ‏: ‎1949996824 ISBN-13‏ : ‎978-1949996821

print-on-demand comic of the day BROODING CREATURES COLOR EDITION [2021] A 100 page sketchbook of works by Stephen Bissette (@stephenrbissette.bsky.social) from through the years, available in either b&w or this only slightly more expensive colour version. If you know SRB you know what to expect...

Process: muckin' about with Man-Thing... __ Stages/artwork ©2025 Stephen R. Bissette

Great stuff. Love that b&w reprint, but we really need a colour reprint of all of the Giffen & Co. AMBUSH BUG stories

Upcoming new edition of Keiji Nakazawa's BAREFOOT GEN (HADASHI NO GEN) from Last Gasp looks promising. Five volumes (doubling up books from the previous 10 book version), so the first book will have the bombing of Hiroshima in the middle rather than near the end, which should work better

Dear DEIAtruth I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!

Post your favorite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only.

print-on-demand comic of the day SCOTT SHAW!S COMIX & STORIES [2023] Scott Shaw! A massive 300+ page career retrospective of Shaw!, from fandom work, underground work and mainstream comics. Great stuff, guaranteed to be a lot of stuff you've never seen before. Hours of fun ISBN 9781949996586

print-on-demand comic of the day THE SPOTTED STONE [2017] Rick Veitch Great short mostly wordless comic by Rick Veitch about human connections with a surprise connection to a classic short comic book of the past ISBN 9781542565974

Back in the 1970s Sheldon Mayer worked up a proposal for a comic set in 1933, "Up In McWhistle's House". Nothing concrete ever became of it unfortunately, he was maybe too far ahead of his time, but what's available in public is fascinating

A shelf of print-on-demand comics and related works. Should expand greatly in the coming year*. Includes both new and archival work from Rick Veitch, Steve Ditko, Bernie Mireault, Dan Spiegle, Stephen Bissette, Rob Walton and many more

I think what makes it art is the June cover date. Was it very early or very late? Jack Binder artwork

"Attic Excursion" Sheldon Mayer, 1959 Sugar & Spike #26

I fill boxes.

Working on a post about 2025 comics I'm looking forward to. If you want to recommend anything compatible with a person who plans to read all of these, feel free to chime in

It was good to hear that Keiji Nakazawa's classic BAREFOOT GEN would be re-released in 2025, in a five volume hardcover omnibus edition from Last Gasp

Just heard that Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud have a collaboration coming out next year, THE CARTOONISTS CLUB. Certainly has the potential to be very good. Coming out in April of 2025

Comics today need more action, like the classics. Some boot polishing action would be nice.

LE ROI CATASTROPHE par Fabrice Parme et Lewis Trondheim TINY TYRANT by Fabrice Parme and Lewis Trondheim fourrealities.blogspot.com/2008/01/tiny...

Listen to the possum, he knows of what he speaks. I mean, unless you're planning to vote for a fascist, but the odds that you are and are following me on bluesky have to be vanishingly small...

First trick or treaters of the night, finally

Ready for Halloween. No trick or treaters so far. Don't force me to eat all the leftover candy and chips...

My completely unsolicited thoughts on all the announced DC FINEST line of reprints, ahead of the initial releases coming next week fourrealities.blogspot.com/2024/10/dc-f... And, also unsolicited, because I like to do this kind of thing, how I would tweak the cover design, with example

SANTIAGO! by Jay Hosler a review of the biography of scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal fourrealities.blogspot.com/2024/10/sant...

As another DC reprint line (DC Finest) gears up to launch next month, I thought I'd look back on a previous line, Showcase Presents, which has also been on my mind as I recently got the last of the 124 books of that run (which looks as crazy as it sounds fourrealities.blogspot.com/2024/10/prel...

eah, going off on some obscure thing only I really care about again... fourrealities.blogspot.com/2024/10/el-c... You get to see three panels from one of Jack Kirby's best stories in ways many of you have never seen them before. That counts for something...

Overdue look at the work of Bernie Mireault, always a delight and full of the joy and possibilities of comics fourrealities.blogspot.com/2024/09/bern... Including work with Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner, Ty Templeton, Joe Matt, Michael T. Gilbert, Mike Allred and others

About Comics just announced a new edition of Bryan Talbot's METRONOME, published under his own name for the first time mailchi.mp/df78c7776d73... Including several extras on the history of the previously pseudonymous book What I wrote about it 15 years ago fourrealities.blogspot.com/2009/04/metr...

In an odd shift in his career, Rick Veitch is doing a biography of old Kubert School classmate, SCOUT and GRIMJACK creator Tim Truman... What... Oh, TRUE-MAN. Oh, that's very different Never mind </Emily Litella> Anyway, the launch of Book 3 of Veitch's Heroica, 100 page book with a 50-page lead...

Michael Zulli 1952-2024 #michaelzulli THE SANDMAN #53 [1993], with Dick Giordano, Danny Vozzo, Todd Klein (but not on this page...) and Neil Gaiman (co-creator of Sandman with Mike Dringenberg and Sam Kieth)

Sad news, Zulli was an enormously talented creator. His unrealized/unfinished projects alone (Swamp Thing meets Jesus with Rick Veitch, Sweeney Todd with Neil Gaiman, The Puma Blues with Stephen Murphy, Barker's Rawhead Rex with Stephen Bissette) would put most creators to shame...

Quick note on the passing of Dave Darrigo, author of the excellent 1980s comic book WORDSMITH fourrealities.blogspot.com/2024/03/dave... (joeshusterawards.com/hof/dave-dar... )

Comics and print-on-demand, preliminary notes to an overview... fourrealities.blogspot.com/2023/12/comi... It's a little bit rambling, I hope to write more on the topic. If you know of anyone else doing print-on-demand in comics that I didn't cover, let me know

Fare thee well and requiescat in pace, Q. Twerk

2023 Book of the Year nominees The Best Of Simon & Kirby's Mainline Comics [2023]