Tag: Comics history
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How comic slabs are colour coded
In this video, I explain why one comic in a slab has a blue label (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle) and another has a green label (Jungle Tales). Scroll down below the video for a bonus description of another label colour: purple, for restored comics. I mention this briefly in the video – there’s another… Read more
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Gene Bilbrew Revealed
Review: This was a well researched and well written biography of a fetish art pioneer. I wasn’t expecting this to be as good as it turned out to be so I’m doubly glad that I read it. First of all let me say that I have been and continue to be a fetish art enthusiast,… Read more
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Carl Barks’ Library Set I Vol III
Review: “Lost in the Andes” is a masterpiece. “Old Castle’s Secret”, glorious and the castle drawings are so good. Even the essays in this one were less odious and pedantic. This book made me want to: eat eggs (square or round, either) Overall rating: Readability: Plot: n/a Other: Egg craveability Read more
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Carl Barks’ Library Set I Vol II
Review: “Volcano Valley” – wow, sleepy Mexicans. Could not get that published today. The essays, good Lord people these are comic books with ducks, not fucking Yeats. Still, learned a great deal and the comics themselves are brilliant and timeless. This book made me want to: own the originals Overall rating: Readability: Plot: n/a Other:… Read more
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Carl Barks’ Library Set I Vol I
Review: Finally getting around to reading the complete set. Exhaustive research into every facet of the artist’s life and work. Which can be exhausting. If panel 2 on page 12 of four color 29 was based on plate II from National Geographic in 1940, that’s great. But I don’t really care. Still, I learned a… Read more