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March 1, 2010 Seraphim was one of the select group of fanzines that catered to those that appreciated the best artists...
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February 27, 2010
No folks, this isn’t a joke, it’s happened again. We now have a second comic book that has sold...
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February 26, 2010
For this edition of This Comic Is History, we’re going to be looking at an object, the Muramasa Blade....
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February 26, 2010 R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country
Publisher: Abrams
Art: R. Crumb
Writing: R.Crumb, Stephen Calt, David Jasen and Terry...
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February 24, 2010 This past Monday a copy of Action Comics #1 sold at auction for $1,000,000.
That’s ONE MILLION DOLLARS!.
ComicConnect.com...
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February 16, 2010
This month we’re going to look at a creator who has been a big influence on many in the...
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January 25, 2010
What is sequential art? Who were the first people to use this art form to tell stories? How did...
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January 16, 2010
This month we take a look at a man who has shaken things up in the world of comics...
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January 15, 2010 In February of 1928, HP Lovecraft penned a tale that was published in a pulp magazine called Weird...
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January 14, 2010 Monday, January 11 was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and the comic book community is attempting to do...
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December 25, 2009
In our last This Comic Is History we looked at a book from off the beaten path, Maus. This...
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December 22, 2009 Welcome to Comics Are My Religion, a look at theology through the lens of comic books. There are...
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December 21, 2009 The great Wally Wood did not only produce some of the greatest comics of all time, but one...
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December 19, 2009 Ah, the holidays! The season is infused into every aspect of pop culture, and comics are no exception. ...
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December 15, 2009
Going back to the Golden Age for this month’s Those Who Came Before, we’re taking a look at Joe...
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December 4, 2009 Anticipating the sell-out success of Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #1 (an easy call, given that all 35 copies were...
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November 26, 2009
In this month’s Sequential History, we’re going to look back at the beginning. The beginning, some believe, of the...
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November 23, 2009 RBCC 135 (April 1977)
Publisher and editor: James Van Hise
Very few fanzines had longer runs than RBCC (Rocket’s Blast...
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November 22, 2009 The aftermath of the “DC Implosion” in June, 1978 left piles of material stacked up around the DC...
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November 15, 2009
The focus of this month’s Those Who Came Before is one of my favorite artists, George Pèrez, pronounced “Pair-Ez”...
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November 11, 2009 In the current economic climate, everyone could use a few more ‘dead presidents.’ So, if you’re not receiving...
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November 6, 2009 Is DC repeating the mistakes of the past?
Price increases are almost inevitable, especially in the comics world. The...
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November 5, 2009
Welcome back kiddies! This time we welcome monster enthusiast Rob Oder into the dungeon. Rob is a Deaditor-in-Chief for...
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October 26, 2009 Welcome to This Comic Is History, a bi-monthly column dealing with comics that were either influenced by, or...
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October 23, 2009 In his novel Gladiator, Philip Wylie told the tragic tale of Hugo Danner, a young man both gifted...
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October 15, 2009
In last month’s installment of Those Who Came Before, I focused on Bob Kane, officially credited creator of Batman....
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September 25, 2009 Welcome to the first Sequential History! In this bi-monthly column I’ll focus on the history of comics. Our...