Category: Artist Spotlight
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration." So spoke Frank Herbert through the Reverend Mother in his novel, Dune. *Portions of this blog were written by author Matt Tuck As I write this the day before Halloween,...
The history of concert posters is vast. With every new music movement came new art and new printing techniques. From the bare-bones style of the early boxing posters to the eye-bending imagery of psychedelic, concert posters are works of art. They're also becoming an increasingly valued commodity...
The legacy of George Pérez. Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Extended Universe, CW, HBO Max - all take a moment to say thank you to George Pérez. Pérez contributed pencil and artistic vision to many of the stories and characters busting out at the box office or binge-streaming...
We all love arguing about who is the Greatest of All Time? In professional basketball, is it Michael or LeBron the GOAT? In football, is it Jerry Rice or Tom Brady? For our comic book investors, who is the greatest comic book artist of all time? ...
With literally thousands of pages of original Conan art to his credit, it's easy to forget that John Buscema is more than a barbarian. I'm not misusing the word literally by saying "Big" John Buscema was literally ten feet tall in the eyes of his young fans...
We could go on and on about Lee's significant imprimatur on comic book history, including the founding of Image Comics. This blog, however, will focus on lesser-known key issues drawn by Lee. For those of us who collected comics in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we...
There's GOLD in them thar Bronze Age. And when talking about Dark Knight artist Marshall Rogers, there's a double meaning. Writer Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers combined on typewriter and Bristol paper to create a new ambiance for Bob Kane's hero. But the new mirrored the old. ...
Super spies were all the rage in the Cold War Sixties: James Bond, the Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart... and even Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Though Marvel introduced Sgt. Fury in 1963, Fury's most significant role in the Marvel Universe launched in Strange Tales #135 by...
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The obvious books to pick up with the Moon Knight series on the horizon would be Werewolf by Night #32 and Moon Knight #1, but with an average increase in FMV of 250% in the last year, the ship has most...