Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics: 2010-2011
If you missed 2006-2009… Seven Decades of Dinosaur Comics finally hits the last decade: 2010-2019. The first two years saw a nice up-tick in dino-series Read More
Tag: Berni Wrightson
The Strangest Northerns: Franken-Style
Today Strangest Northerns gives you thrills Franken-style. The fact that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) ends in the Arctic with Victor chasing his terrible creation over Read More
The Bats of DC
Berni Wrightson’s cover for House of Mystery #195 (October 1971) got me to thinking how DC Comics made that swooping bat figure their own, and Read More
Fafhrd & Gray Mouser Comics
In a previous post, we looked at the Pulp illustrations of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & Gray Mouser. This time we will look at the comic Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Berni Wrightson (1948-2017)
Berni was one of the early comic book artists who produced pre-Conan the Barbarian work and helped to develop an audience for Sword & Sorcery Read More
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Steve Ditko (1927-2018)
Steve, along with Wally Wood, Gray Morrow and Frank Frazetta, was one of the old pros who did Sword & Sorcery comics in the late Read More
The Strangest Northerns Ever: DC Style
Tales of the haunted north appeared across DC’s horror line. Here’s a sample of the best of them. The earliest Northern was actually from December Read More
A Gallery of Comic Book Werewolfery
Today I published an article on the literary roots of werewolves. It didn’t include any comic books, so here to make up for that are Read More