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Metal machine music - Apartment 3-G, 2/2/12 I was going to make fun of Dan Diller for having a studio full of primitive, Eisenhower-era electronic equipment, but then I noticed ...

Magno the Magnetic Man-Jim Mooney-1942 - Here's one of my Golden Age faves, MAGNO (and Davy) in an early story with art by the great Jim Mooney. Mooney, of course, would go on to do such series ...

Sick #40, 2 of 2 - Continued from Monday. I met Arnoldo “Francho” Franchioni once at a *Nickelodeon* party around 1998. At that time he was a dual citizen. He quit as a regu...

The one benefit of being sick in bed - …is that you get ideas. Or at least I do. Which, not to belabour the point: anybody out there interested in illustrating an approximately 8-page horror com...

(via Veronique Meignaud - Illustration) - (via Veronique Meignaud - Illustration)

- *Happy Groundhog Day!*

Passing Stones - Peter here again. Today was a busy day, but on to the comics review! Adam@Home [image: Adam@Home] So Adam's injury turns out to be a kidney stone. I'm glad ...

Brush Pen Doodle-Fest - I just love sketching with a brush pen! I thought these photos looked cooler than just scanning the artwork...but it was a bit hard to keep my pho...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cave Girl in "Altar of the Axe" (Magazine Enterprises; 1954) - Folks, I will hit the half century mark this month and as a personal form of celebration, I plan on deploying what I refer to as the Catacombs “* All-Stars*...

Oh, What is So Rare as a Day in June - Here's a nice little bit of Pogo memorabilia sent over by Thomas Matkey — a publishers' weekly proof sheet from June of 1964.

Black History Month on the Stripper's Guide Blog! - It's huge! It's amazing! It's unprecedented! It's a month-long look at black-produced newspaper comics on Stripper's Guide! Never before has the blog done...

“Throw Like A Baby Girl” - [image: Comic] I have to say I was totally unprepared for how fast a 15 month old is, especially in terms of destructive capability. Just today a trip to ...

SCREWBALL! A New Tumey Blog! - Announcing: *The Masters of SCREWBALL Comics* - a new blog by Paul Tumey! My study of Jack Cole's work and exploration of what I like about it has led ...

- Number 1098 The crimes of Matt Baker After leaving the Iger shop where he had toiled on such features as the leggy Sky Girl, Matt Baker used a more sop...

Frankenstein in Stitches - Several comments posted here, on Facebook and points between have noted how Primo Carnera’s *Frankenstein* makeup from 1957, revealed here last week, wa...

MOTHER OF GOD - [image: Share photos on twitter with Twitpic] I THOUGHT THE FUTURE WAS PAPERLESS

"The Tomb" & "The Unknown"(And Big, Cool Announcement!) - *Hear Ye! Hear Ye!* Before we get to today's blood lettings, I want to make all you horror fans out there aware of a newly minted award for sterling ach...

Celluloid Hero - Buster Crabbe was the Brad Pitt or George Clooney of the ‘30s and ‘40s movie serials: the go-to actor whenever a studio wanted a suitably square-jawed hero...

March 27-April 2, 1955: The Martian Chronicles - March 27 A fairly intriguing sequence this week, continuing the prior spaceman strips. Schulz gets some good mileage out of halftone shading, a system ...

- *Wings* Over Hooterville  In The Wake of *Wings*, Fans Received This When They Wrote for Clara Bow's Autograph I've got this swell idea for a sitcom ep...

OUTER SPACE JITTERS (1957) - [image: Outer Space Jitters] RATING: 2 & 1/4 out of **** PLOT: Earthman Professor Jones (Emil Sitka) and his three aids (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besse...

A short'un: DIE CUT! - He looks like he's wearing the Epcot Center. There is no end to the list of possible contenders for the title of the Nineties-est character ever – certai...

2012: HAPPY YEAR OF THE WATER DRAGON! "Manda vs. Atragon" by Shigeru Komatsuzaki - *Original Watercolor by the legendary Shigeru Komatsuzaki.*

Obscure Musicals: "Golden Boy" - This one is less obscure than some of the other shows I've written about on this site. It had a run that normally qualifies a musical as a hit: 569 perfo...

Sword of Desperation - Animeigo sent me a very cool contemporary samurai film, Sword of Desperation(2010). It plays like a combo of old school and new -- think Twilight Samurai (2...

Why Chicks Cry: The Book? - In June of 2009, I sorted through piles of old DC romance comics, extracting only those panels in which women were shedding tears. I then assigned capt...

John Stanley's World, Pt. VIII: A Walking Tour of Monsterville - During my recent enforced hiatus, my only reliable entree to the internet was via an iPod. The effect is like watching a fishbowl through the wrong end of...

"Prince Violent!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday! - "Mad" (THE COMIC BOOK) issue #13 from 1953 came in with a "wow-bam-sockaroony!" from Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood, as they took on the great Hal Foster's...

Vivie Risto's Chilly Willy - Today we have the work of *Vivie Risto*, who worked for Dell/Western Publishing for approximately twenty years, beginning in the early 1940s. Not much is k...

The 50th Anniversary of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol - I'm sorry to say that posting will once again be light simply because people forget about *Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol* for about 11 months of the year. ...

2011: One Last Look Back - Happy New Year, everyone. I thought I'd take a (belated) look back at a fond acquaintance whom we lost a couple of months ago. With his incredible output...

- *We Have a Possible Solution* OK, the ilovecomix archive site may be gone but the file sharing and swapping is still going on among us. I have foun...

Colonel Bleep - Here's a load of screenshots from a few Colonel Bleep cartoons. I usually have little to no interest in some of the early made for TV cartoons. I prefer c...

Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales From The Spinner Rack - [image: sg] It's been a long while since I mentioned any updates regarding the Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales From The Spinner Rack book, so here goes: ...

Suicide Slum Comix: Simon and Kirby's Subversive Comics About Comics - Comics are inherently playful. They can stretch time out thousands of years -- or compress 100 years into a small box. Comics' potential for playfulness i...

Put Me Back In My Tomb - I have retired MCB but just wanted to let ya'll know I've fired up a Musick Blog and will be spending time over there from now on. Please check it out, it...

THE FORGOTTEN MAN -

The Essential reason to buy "The Essential Daffy Duck" - A few hours ago I got my copy of “The Essential Daffy Duck”. I bought it and it was a bet. I was curious if WB would have done it. You know, the people at ...

Happy Halloween! - ALL HALLOWS - From 1982 comes the greatest halloween story ever produced by comics. "ALL HALLOWS" was written by Bruce Jones and had beautiful artwork by Tim Conrad, a...

TRICK OR TREAT! or, Getting ahead at Halloween... - This is probably why I don't get a lot of kids coming to my house on Halloween...

Prom Hairstyles for Short - Prom Hairstyles for Short[image: Prom Hairstyles for Short] Prom Hairstyles for Short[image: Prom Hairstyles for Short] Prom Hairstyles for Short[image: Prom...

Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964) - Directed by* Byron Haskin* *Starring:* *Paul Mantee* as Cmdr. Chris "Kit" Draper *Victor Lundin* as Friday *Adam West* as Col. Dan McReady *Barney (The ...

"Astrocats" Artwork Donation for "Team in Training " - I am proud to have been asked to donate to the “Team in Training” Cancer Run, here is the drawing I donated that you can still buy raffle tickets to try...

New Lee Falk book - On April 28th,2011 Phantom and Mandrake the Magician creator LEE FALK would have been 100 years old. To celebrate his centennial, the Scandinavian Chapter ...

Going On Hiatus - Hi, everyone. I just wanted to let you know that beginning August 1st, ComiCrazys will be going on a temporary hiatus. I’m not sure for how long but I am e...

That's all, Folks! - Last post, that is. The reason –I think– perfectly understandable: I've decided to get me rich quick and at all costs. I'll need time for that. Once I get ...

POST # 42 - THE MUMMY STALKS! - Recently I was talking about artist *Reed Crandall* and how many werewolf stories he had done over the years. Searching through my database I happened t...

Sam Fuller's The Naked Kiss on DVD - A taut 1964 melodrama on human depravity and redemption starring Constance Towers that has garnered a cult audience.

Some Cover Recreations - I like doing these pieces for inking practice...and I need lots of practice! I especially need to make myself do more hand-lettering. Redrawing old comic boo...

**Hiatus** - Well folks as you may have noticed I've been somewhat absent when it comes to posting on this blog. I love doing it and have a ton more to share but life ha...

He Could Have Beat Them All - Wally Wood’s life and art exist in the space between two comic book stories. The first, “My World”, published in Weird Science no. 22, 1953, was written by...

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