Rodrigo Baeza
@rodrigobaeza
Bluesky's most beloved reply guy.
I think these two Gil Kane pages are from the same unpublished Asteroids #1 as well.
"Alan Moore’s 6 favorite books that have shaped his oeuvre" theweek.com/culture-life...
New Harvey Kurtzman documentary premieres soon: www.edfilmfest.org/film/the-mad...
I didn't know that Winsor McCay's last cartoon had to be finished by by T.E. Powers.
Heritage's been selling pages from Larry Lieber's collection of original art. This week's auction includes these rejected/discarded 1960s pencilled pages by Jack Kirby.
"Coordenadas en clave de historieta", a new anthology of Argentine comics, available for download here: bit.ly/CoordenadasA...
Yes, looks like the Charlton Comics mascot Ditko drew in ads (with the same "C.C." logo in his chest), showing the various genres you could find in Charlton comics at the time. Here's another 1985 piece with the same character.
From 1901: Rudolph Dirks, Gus Dirks, James Swinnerton, and Frederick Opper
This project led to Butch Guice leaving Marvel (ending up drawing Superman for DC). In an interview published in Comic Book Marketplace #101 he said: "there were changes made in how royalties were to be determined on the project, after the fact". (5/5)
I was reminded of this cover because Heritage Auctions recently sold a similar-looking page by Guice. That page could either be an alternate cover image, or the art originally intended for page 18 of the book. In the published book, Marvel chose to use a close-up (again). (4/5)
It seems retailers may have been concerned about the cover drawing unwanted attention from local authorities (this was only a few years after the "Friendly Frank's" case). Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics thought that the cover was "rude" and "adult" in his monthly newsletter. (3/5)
The art comes from the preview Marvel sent to distributors and retailers at the time. When the book was printed, however, Marvel decided to use a close-up of the image instead. Why the change? (2/5)
Here's a piece of art that hasn't been seen since 1990: Butch Guice's original cover for X-Factor: Prisoner of Love. (1/5)
First depiction of an LSD trip in a newspaper comic strip? "Kerry Drake" original art (credited to Alfred Andriola) from 1968. (1/2)
Ted White, former editor of HEAVY METAL magazine, AMAZING STORIES, and FANTASTIC magazine passed away today, at the age of 88. He wrote the 1968 CAPTAIN AMERICA novel, THE GREAT GOLD STEAL. www.facebook.com/groups/corfl...
Original art for the presentation piece for "Hydroman" by Bill Everett, circa 1940. Apparently, it's currently owned by someone whose father worked as a model for Everett.
I wrote a brief post about a little-known comics letterer named Skip Kohloff. www.tumblr.com/rodrigobaeza...