Colleen Coover has put up a second of her very “Unofficial,Unsanctioned Unsolicited. Done for fun“ strips. This time it’s Lana Lang, Superman’s ex-girlfriend: But before that it was a brilliant Batman: You know, somewhere, in some alternate universe…. these would be official books. That would be so great. (Via Blog at Newsarama)
Continue reading...Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Brendan McCarthy kindly shares some gorgeous artwork with us, including Imaginary Story (as if they aren’t all imaginary, as Brendan commented) set in the Silver Age of Superman (above) and U-Babe 3, a “great underwater adventure!” (below): But much as I enjoyed these I have to say I think this one is the piece de [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 11, 2011
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This short Superman spoof from Arunas Eimulis is brief but funny and I love the deliberately awful vintage style, inspired, so it says, by the”Turkish trash movies of the 70s”, a fun way to start the working week: Super M adventures part I – Graffiti vandals from Arunas Eimulis on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Saturday, April 2, 2011
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(Joanne Siegel in the 1940s and in a Joe Shuster sketch looking very Lois Lane) This has been all over the comic Internet last week, but I couldn’t not at least mention it. Less than two months ago, on February 12th 2011, Joanne Siegel died at age 93. She was the widow of Superman co-creator [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 18, 2011
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This take on Lois Lane by Neill Cameron made me giggle (via Erin Kelly):
Continue reading...Monday, January 17, 2011
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Sean Kleefeld points us to this wonderfully rubbish old TV commerical (what is it, 70s?) for “Superman brand Peanut Butter”. Not what you’d call a subtle form of advertising to modern eyes and Sean’s right, that has to be one of the lamest flying-off attempts anyone’s ever done with the Man of Steel! I do [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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I didn’t know there was a whole page of sketches by the great Walter Simonson on Facebook until Dave Gibbons tweeted it. A whole page of pencil and ink drawings to enjoy, go and look. (Superman flying, a brush and ink sketch by Walter Simonson, based on a pose he did for Superman #666; Superman [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 16, 2010
On his honeymoon with Lois, Superman begins to get the feeling that perhaps it isn’t all going as well as he might wish for… That tickles me just right… Link via GFest, sadly artist name not mentioned
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … a 5 inch action figure… Adventures of Tiny Superman was the winner of a fan film competition at the 2010 Superman celebration according to the description. I hadn’t come across it before, but it’s a great example of innovation and sense of fun overcoming those pesky obstacles [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 7, 2010
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Missed this until this week – more great stuff from Chris Sims at Comic Alliance - imagine todays comic covers done classic (DC) Silver Age style. There’s lots more at the link, but this one’s my favourite, probably just for the Infantino pointy finger caption…..
Continue reading...Friday, July 9, 2010
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The Cover to Action Comics #894 – not exactly what you were expecting? Writer Paul Cornell has pulled off a bit of a coup. whilst Supes stretches his legs walking across America later this year and leaves Action behind him, Cornell’s having to get creative and explore the Superman universe and particularly Lex Luthor on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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Batmitey has posted up five videos on YouTube, The Comic Strip Hero, which was made for the BBC’s Arena programme in 1981, on the enduring popularity of Superman and includes Siegel and Shuster, Chris Reeve, Margot Kidder, Will Eisner and science fiction legend Larry Niven (via Dan McDaid):
Continue reading...Friday, April 16, 2010
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Whilst waiting for the imminent publication of Psychiatric Tales from Blank Slate, Darryl Cunningham has been filling his time productively….. with some lovely blog pics of both the Man Of Steel and the Dark Knight…..
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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Via Dan Goldman’s Twitter comes a link to this pretty short but funny remix of the end of the first Superman movie that made me chuckle:
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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I watch Smallville periodically (although not religiously) but the Absolute Justice ep? Yeah, that’s seriously perking my interest! Looks fab. (via the Geek Syndicate Twitter)
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