Archive Page 2211

October 2024

Alex Nino 1973

A combination of factors made Alex Nino not only one of DC Comics best stylists during the 1970s, but also one of the most unusual. The vaguely-drug influenced fashion of the time allowed for Nino's distortion effects, and well-matched to the list of DC's "mystery" books which featured a cliche' assortment of vampires, werewolves, and swamp monsters, but also "I'm going crazy" stories that required the artist to make the physical world look like how the suffering protagonist saw it for a sequence of 6, 8, or 12 pages. At this, Nino seemed to have the freedom to create an alternative reality, one that was supposed to represent lunacy, from Nino it was a well-designed lunacy with a touch of humor.

International Comic Book Artist Alex Nino: Veteran comic book artist from the Philippines. His art has appeared in DC Comics, Marvel, Warren, Dark Horse and Heavy Metal magazine (and in various comic books of the Philippines). With an easy to recognize style, Nino is a favorite among professional artists and in Bronze era fans, too. His design work has also appeared in films, including Disney's Atlantis Lost Empire (2001).

"The Madcap History of Mad Magazine" – Smithsonian Magazine

In March 1976, a great American portrait debuted to an adoring public. It was a bicentennial appreciation of George Washington … of a sort. Inspired by The Athenaeum Portrait, Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 painting featured on the one-dollar bill, this rendering of the first president featured one distinction. The original showed Washington with swollen, tightly closed lips due to a new set of ill-fitting dentures, while the 1976 version had a gap-toothed smirk instantly recognizable to America’s middle school reprobates. Equally recognizable was the blank stare that those same kids knew evoked the iconic question: "What, Me Worry?"

The exhibit What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum – June 8, 2024 through October 27, 2024

There's a 2-Day online ZOOM symposium being presented from the museum – The Usual Gang of Idiots and Other Suspects: MAD Magazine and American Humor Online Symposium – Zoom Webinar Friday, October 18 from 6pm to 8pm Saturday, October 19 from 10am to 3:30pm – Price: Norman Rockwell Museum Members: $25 Non-Members: $35 College Students: $10

How unrelated events can impact comic resell values and provoke Golden Age comics to go to auction – Bleedingcool

The retirement of the Time Warp comic book shop – Broomfield Enterprise

How a beloved Boulder business survived decades of changes, burglars and Amazon"

Most comic book readers start under the age of ten

Story at South Florida Reporter

Image's Transformers #13 sells 100k copies to comic shops – Bleedingcool

Dead again

Preview-Review: Wolverine: Revenge #2 – MSN Screenrant

The most "collectible" Batman comics – CBR MSN

...things like "comic book price guides" are basically things of the past, as the great equalizer in terms of "price guides" is the online auction site, eBay, which serves as the best price guide around, as it shows you precisely what people ARE paying for comic books in question... Sonja Grunfeld, an account executive at Edelman, recently told CBR about some fascinating facts about how popular Batman comic books have been on eBay recently. She noted that global users searched for Batman items over 4,000 times per hour during the first half of 2024! That's pretty crazy. She added that sales for issues like Batman 428 increasing nearly 140% and Batman 251 by 30% in 2023 compared to the year prior, on eBay globally."

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Original page October 11, 2024