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Oh, Vertigo. Back once again, I see. Just like Kim Novak. Or perhaps merely a chance resemblance. Or perhaps its would be more accurate to say, he founded their horror line. Prior to Orlando’s arrival ...

At the fanzine convention Corflu 41, held in Las Vegas in 2024, writer Sandra Bond asked Ted White, then 86, if there was anything he wished he could have done that he hadn’t yet. His answer was ...

In the early summer of 1974, a Legion of Super-Heroes fan named Harry Broertjes, the editor of a homemade magazine called the Legion Outpost, made a phone call from New York to Pittsburgh to speak to ...

Opening page from "Nejishiki," as collected in the eponymous volume by Drawn and Quarterly. All English translations here are by Ryan Holmberg unless otherwise specified. I had a conversation the ...

Longtime Marvel artist Sal Buscema, passed away this past Friday, two days shy of his 90th birthday. Buscema was not as flashily virtuosic as some fan-favorite pencilers, but he had a keen instinct ...

“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.” — Scott Adams Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, creator of ...

Additional "graphic adaption" for the English-language edition credited to Ami Reuveni, Soni ReGa, Vanesa Coronel & Edu Di Costa. All images read from right to left. The Solitary Gourmet, meanwhile, ...

Publicity photo of Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Photo by Doug Bayne. Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy ...

Peter David, the writer known for a long and inventive run on The Incredible Hulk, his copious work on Star Trek comics and licensed novels, and a bewildering number of comics, prose stories, ...

From "Hellion" (1971). In keeping with the format of the book under review, all Japanese names are presented in the Japanese naming order, family name (Hanawa) preceding given name (Kazuichi), unless ...

I have three copies of Tintin in America. These are: The 2018 softcover color edition from Egmont (bought as a part of the massive Tintin Box Set, which contains all books bar Tintin in the Congo), ...