Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Jiminy Christmas! column. Why are publishers still producing dust jackets? The technology has been around for a good century or so to print whatever you want right on the book cover. In…
Fantagraphics and Kim Thompson are back with another Jacques Tardi translated work: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Volume 1. Appearing in the early 1970s and published as single volumes in French around 1976, Adele Blanc-Sec has a cult following…
After I stopped collecting weekly comics and focused on collections instead the first few months were relatively light since I was waiting for recent issues to be collected. During that time I picked up a few titles that were off…
Let me start off by saying until I purchased this book I had never heard of Harold “Hal” Foster or Prince Valiant: they were off my comics radar. I’ve never been a fan of newspaper comic strips and had limited…