Category: Creator Spotlight

Jack Kirby Part 1: When Two Titans Collaborate and Hardly Anyone Notices (the Adams and Kirby Work)

Browse around your local comic shop or surf your favorite blog (Narrator's Voice: GoCollect!) and you'll hear tons of debate.  It is in the DNA of the Comic Collective to speculate, debate, and agitate!  Two titans of the Comic Collective, that are surely beyond debate, are Jack...

A Quippy Sixties Spidey Rundown

Eight Hundred Fifty-Four otherwise known as the current issue number of Amazing Spider-Man as I write this. And in case you needed me to tell you: that is a handful. We've followed Spider-Man throughout the decades, witnessing all of the struggles and trials that the webhead...

Mike Zeck- 80s GOAT Part 2

I previously wrote about some Mike Zeck Marvel comics that are easy on the eyes and also worth your consideration. Let's take a look at a few more titles and see if they are also worthy of your hard-earned dollars.

Mike Zeck- 80s GOAT Part 1

I recently wrote about Captain America #272 in another post which got me thinking about other timeless Mike Zeck covers. I am not the first person to write about Mike Zeck's epic run of 80s Marvel covers, but with the Covid boom...

Dark Horse Comics and Being the Other Guys

Synonymous with comics for many, Marvel and DC have most likely taken up the vast majority of your collection. At least, that is the conclusion I came to as I browsed my personal catalog in an attempt to brainstorm ideas for this article. Flipping through book...

Speculation for your Collection: Descender and Ascender

Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen are a fantastic team. Over five years ago they released the first issue of Descender. That science fiction series, which I usually describe to people as E.T. meets Battlestar Galactica, wrapped up over a year ago, but the team was not quite...

Frazetta on Frank Frazetta (Part 2 of 2)... Frazetta, San Diego Comic-Con, and George R. R. Martin

Life has a way of forming unions we never dreamed possible. Superman teamed up with Muhammad Ali. Japanese monster Godzilla appeared on screen with American creation King Kong. Sadly the story I will tell is how a San Diego Comic-Con worker could have prevented the greatest possible...

Brian Michael Bendis: Ultimate Author

Whether you are drawn to the bleak, gothic aesthetics, or just the fact that he’s a blind guy beating the absolute crap out of thugs in Hell’s...

First Appearance of Today's Greatest Comic Artists/Writers - Part 2

We are taking our second look at the first appearance of today's greatest comic artists.  Today's greatest artists and writers will be looked at from a new perspective. For our second installment, we will take a look at 3 greats. Chris Claremont, Jim Lee, and Ryan Stegman....

Roy Krenkel... An Artist's Version of Robin

When the names of the great comic book artists are mentioned he is absent.  Rarely does his work shine because he did not think it to be significant.  Instead, he was happier contributing to others' work through his inks and pencil work.  Even though he would not...