Dark Age Milestones Part 1 tldr; For purposes of this series I define the Dark Age of Comic Books as running from 1985 with the publication of Crisis on Infinite Earths # 8, the death of Barry Allen, to 2000 with the publication of Ultimate Spiderman # 1. But we’ll be looking at a number … Read more
DC just announced a Vertigo Comics revival with 10 new titles. To mark the occasion, here’s what I wrote about Vertigo in my June 25, 2019 newsletter. Last Friday DC confirmed that it’s sunsetting the Vertigo imprint, along with some other brands like Zoom and Ink. Instead, there will just be three brands: DC Kids, … Read more
Since the release of the first photos of Bill Skarsgård as The Crow, he’s been compared to the Jared Leto Joker. Which is fair enough: It was the first thing that crossed my mind as well. But I soon remembered an older touchstone: The Crow: Wild Justice mini-series from 1997. The new Crow film is … Read more
The Crow and the Caliber Years: James O’Barr Part 2 Part 1: The Crow Creator James O’Barr’s Early Years Part 2: The Crow and the Caliber years Part 3: After The Crow: The Works of James O’Barr James O’Barr has published around 416 pages of sequential art in his life, not counting things he wrote … Read more
Having touched at least briefly on the “Big Three Outlaw Comics,” I’m now moving forward in this article series to what I call the “Outlaw Comics Explosion. I still have some articles to backfill, such as the missing second part of the James O’Barr series, but over the next few months I’ll be covering Poison … Read more
I just published an article on the rise and fall of Cry for Dawn, the influential Outlaw Comics/horror anthology from the late 80s/early 90s. Co-creators Joe Monks and Joe Linsner were kind enough to provide lengthy answers to my questions. There was far more material than I could use in the article, so I’m publishing … Read more
I just published an article on the rise and fall of Cry for Dawn, the influential Outlaw Comics/horror anthology from the late 80s/early 90s. Co-creators Joe Monks and Joe Linsner were kind enough to provide lengthy answers to my questions. There was far more material than I could use in the article, so I’m publishing … Read more
Cry for Dawn was the third of the original “Big Three” Outlaw Comics, along with Faust: Love of the Damned and The Crow. The series was a horror anthology with stories initially written by Joseph M. Monks and Joseph Michael Linsner and illustrated by Linsner. In the early issues, Linsner provided black-and-white illustrations for Monks’s … Read more
Special thanks to John Ekleberry and his website The James O’Barr Collector and John Bergin and his Instagram account. Part 1: The Crow Creator James O’Barr’s Early Years Part 2: The Crow and Caliber Years Part 3: After The Crow: The Later Works of James O’Barr Note: I might receive a cut of any referrals … Read more
This article was written by Michael Crisman and originally published in 2019 at steemit as part of his Michael’s Longbox series. It’s republished here with permission from Mike and updated/clarified information on Mystery Graphix. For more on Mystery Graphix, see the following Instagram posts: 1, 2, 3, 4— KF. So for the past few months … Read more