Tag Archives: Jack Kirby

Boycotts, Womanthology and the New Comic Arts Festival on the Block

Just another month in the high stakes world of comic books and the people that love them.

There are some genuinely interesting items making headlines on the sequential front this month, and I would be remiss if I didn’t touch on a few of them here. From professional perspectives on a call to boycott one of the two major publishers (hint: not DC) to the wildly successful endeavours of a group of female artists and writers to kickstart their own new anthology, and finally to the birth of a new Canadian Comic Festival.

Fablerisms: Wherein we Segue from Free Comics to O.J. Simpson

What is a Fablerism?

It is a post that does not pertain to profiling or interviewing an artist of any sort, nor does it (predominantly) discuss critical items to Canadian indie comic creators.

In this post specifically, we talk news about The Fabler.com’s overhaul, Free Comic Book Day, the Siegel/Warner Bros. litigation hearings, and Scott McCloud.

Antecedents and Archetypes of Modern Comics: Props Where Props Is Due.

So an antecedent and an archetype walk into a bar, right?
….Oh, forget it.

This post salutes the pulp magazines and early American comic strips of yesteryore for the impact they had in shaping the characters of the Golden and Silver Ages of comic books.

Leave it to Marvel to kick off the new decade with a high-profile lawsuit.

Marvel is suing Jack Kirby’s heirs over their notice to terminate a number of copyrights beginning in 2014. We provide CONTEXT and CLARITY into the issue for those CURIOUS about COPYRIGHT issues in COMICS.
Today is a day for alliterating the letter C.