Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II

“Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappiness of others.”

 Turgenev

 (Panel by Darwyn Cooke, David Bullock, Michael Cho et al, from ‘Justice League: The New Frontier Special.)

Rorschach, from Watchmen, and Lel, from The Originals, feature in Dave Gibbon’s charity auction art for Bristol’s ComicExpo 2005.

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

 Cesare Pavese

(Page by Pat Mills, Trigo et al, from ‘The Visible Man’, 2000AD #46, 1978)

Frank Miller’s Robohomophobe - and Margaret Thatcher - from 1988’s anti-homophobic Aargh!

“This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy - that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.”

Joseph Goebbels

(Panel by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Werner Roth et al, from X-Men #14, 1965)

Another of Brian Bolland’s adverts for Forbidden Planet, as printed in the booklet for the UK’s Comicana 82.

” … concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as “conceptual necessities”, “a priori situations”, etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.”

Einstein

(Panel by Jack Kirby, Joey Cavalieri, Adrian Gonzales et al, from Super Powers #1, 1984)

Part of the splendid Hunt Emerson’s Thatcher-mocking contribution to the anti-homophobic Aargh!

“I don’t pretend to understand the universe - it’s a great deal bigger than I am … People ought to be modester.”

 Thomas Carlyle

(Cropped panel by Jack Kirby, Vince Colletta et al, from New Gods #6, 1971)

“Quicksilver & The Avengers”? Hawkeye’s not going to like that! Though it’s basically just a trace’n’paste job using Don Heck’s artwork, it’s still for my money the most appealing cover Pietro Maximoff has ever been given. (From the mostly-reprint “Fantastic & Terrific” # 79, 16 August 1968)