“Endzeit”
“Two girls. One Train. A world full of zombies.” Check out the prettiness and the sadness of Olivia Vieweg here. (Thanks, Sachin!)
Marie Severin and “The Glory Days of EC Comics!”
Brian Cronin writes about Marie Severin at Comic Book Resources. “The late Marie Severin is probably best known today for her long association with Marvel Comics, where she worked from the late 1950s until the mid-1990s. She was a popular penciler, drawing the first five issues of Incredible […]
Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley!
Friend of the Gutter Sara Century writes a history of Mary Shelley in pop culture for SyFy. “There’s no denying that Mary Shelley led a fascinating life. She was the child of two prominent political writers, one of whom was a renowned proto-feminist who died shortly after childbirth. […]
“Avoiding simple, obvious mistakes regarding drawing or modeling Black characters’ hair.”
Iron Circus Comix publisher C. Spike Trotman runs down “some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but aren’t confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair.” Read via Thread Reader here. (Thanks, Mark!)
“Maximum Impact!”
Friend of the Gutter Colin Smith writes about Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons’ Dan Dare! “Anyone looking for insight as to how to create the sense of an exciting action-packed tale can note some perhaps surprisingly subtle strategies at work in writer Gerry Finley-Day and artist Dave Gibbons’ […]
“Yellowed Pages: Foolkiller”
At Loser City, friend of the Gutter Nick Hanover looks at Steve Gerber and J. J. Birch’s comics miniseries, Foolkiller. “Before the Foolkiller was given a maxi-series, the character had been a fringe background character in Gerber’s Man-Thing, lasting all of two issues before dying. This incarnation of […]
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