Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II

A fine example of Deny Cowan’s Batman, from the UKCAC 89 booklet.

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:22:10 +0100

A fine example of Deny Cowan’s Batman, from the UKCAC 89 booklet.

Trina Robbins pays playful homage to Botticelli in her contribution to Amazing Heroes #164, 1989.

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:30:34 +0100

Trina Robbins pays playful homage to Botticelli in her contribution to Amazing Heroes #164, 1989.

The Legion Of Substitute Heroes take a day off from saving the universe, courtesy of Ty Templeton....

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:38:53 +0100

The Legion Of Substitute Heroes take a day off from saving the universe, courtesy of Ty Templeton. (From Amazing Heroes #138, 1988)

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” Jonathan Kazal (Page by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:11:00 +0100

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”

Jonathan Kazal

(Page by Kano, Kieron Gillen et al, from ‘Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter’ #1)

Kevin O’Neill has his and Pat Mills’s Marshall Law blow a hole in poor old Superman....

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:28:15 +0100

Kevin O’Neill has his and Pat Mills’s Marshall Law blow a hole in poor old Superman. (From the IKCAC 89 booklet.)

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:00:33 +0100

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”

Tennessee Williams

(Panel by Mike Sekowsky, Gardner Fox, Bernard Sachs et al, from Justice League Of America #19, 1963)

Mary Hanson-Roberts recasts Krazy Kat’s Offisa Bull Pupp as Judge Dredd. That’ll deal...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:32:05 +0100

Mary Hanson-Roberts recasts Krazy Kat’s Offisa Bull Pupp as Judge Dredd. That’ll deal with that darn Ignatz Mouse. (Cropped front cover to Comics Revue #72, 1992)

“The mass production of instruments of comfort - all revolutionary, according to the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:34:00 +0100

“The mass production of instruments of comfort - all revolutionary, according to the publicity handouts - has given the most unsophisticated of people the right to express an opinion on the marvels of technological innovation in a tone as blase as the hand they stick in their pants. The first landing on Mars will pass unnoticed at Disneyland.”

Raoul Vaneigem

(Panel by Jack Kirby, Mike Royer et al, from OMAC #1, 1975)

Marvelman/Miracleman, by Mark Buckingham, from the UKCAC89 booklet

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:13:35 +0100

Marvelman/Miracleman, by Mark Buckingham, from the UKCAC89 booklet

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved” Soren...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:41:57 +0100

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved”

Soren Kierkegaard

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”

Richard Feynman

(Panel by Jack Kamen et al, from Weird Science #12, 1950)

Ian Gibson pays homage to Grant Wood’s American Gothic for this shot of Mister Miracle, Big...

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:30:51 +0100

Ian Gibson pays homage to Grant Wood’s American Gothic for this shot of Mister Miracle, Big Barda and Oberon, from the UKCAC 89 booklet

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:34:48 +0100

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of the skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour … “

Aldous Huxley

(Panels by Wally Wood, Stan Le eet al, from Daredevil #7, 1965)

Joe Kubert has Hawkwoman and Hawkman face down an exceedingly toothsome T Rex, as licensed by...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:59:19 +0100

Joe Kubert has Hawkwoman and Hawkman face down an exceedingly toothsome T Rex, as licensed by Marvel UK in 1984 from DC for the Super Powers Annual. A moneygrubbing, slipshod business, the annual led off with the first chapter - of five - of Jack Kirby, Joey Cavalieri & Adrian Gonzalez’s Super-Powers mini-series, which finished on the following cliffhanger;

For some reason, Marvel UK decided not to print anything of the rest of the series in the book, which must have made for a frustrating X-Mas present. It’s a shameless business, knowingly printing an incomplete story in a one-off children’s annual;

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” Camus (Panel by...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:46 +0100

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

Camus

(Panel by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, et al, from The X-Men #1, 1963)

Stan Sakai’s Nelson Groundhumper and Hermy enjoy a day beside the ocean, from Amazing Heroes...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:05:46 +0100

Stan Sakai’s Nelson Groundhumper and Hermy enjoy a day beside the ocean, from Amazing Heroes #138, 1988.

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

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:53:00 +0100

“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...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:29:17 +0100

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...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:08 +0100

“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!

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:59:55 +0100

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...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:50 +0100

“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)