An old Kirby Gem today.... My 2 favorite Artist together again! Wally Wood Inks Jack Kirby on the Volcano story!

now lets try to find some al williamson.....one of my absolute favorite comic artist,,,,,plus some cool junk from the files.....ok ok!

Ok whats happened..... somehow there is new intrest in this dead blog....all-righty then, lets look at some godamn comic stories then......

Since we are in the middle of Base ball season....let's take a look at one of the all time great Sport Cartoonists.....Jack Davis from YAK YAK comics!

I know I've written plenty about Bill Everette here...(check the archives) So today I'm just gonna let the art do the talking. Here is one beauty of a Venus story....

Came across quite a few good scans of some Prime Comic Art ! Gonna try to post a few that I like, just for the hell of it.... 1st is a quick 3 pgr. from one of my favorites Bill Everett....done sometime in the 50'.... great use of the medium her folks.... you can only do this kinda stuff with Comic Books!

I was checking out the art of Bob Kane today at work....I found a copy of the old BATMAN newspaper strips from the early 40's, for cheap recently and Kane's art at that point had progressed just enuff.....to kind of interest me again. It's BIG and KLUNKY as all hell...but it has this immediacy to it that just screams in a frenzy of raw power! I'm sure the inker Charlie Paris had a bunch to do with it....As I always heard it Bob Kane was somewhat of a hack, who just came up with the core idea of The BATMAN. Well..... It was a helluva idea. Nowadays it

is pretty much known who did what on the early stuff......I'm sure you heard all about it. But I think I get where his head was at, at that time...Hire Ghosts to do the comicbooks and sit back to draw the daily strips.......remember back in thoes days the artist used comicbooks as a stepping stone to get into the syndicated newspaper comics, and make some real money. So this was kinda like His Baby, ya'know...Comparing the stuff to his early Detective, BATMAN stories, it's a lot smoother (Yea, the inker, I know) and has much more mass and volume to the figures. Parts of it look like he was swiping from Dick Tracy, especially the villains, but all in all, it's some fun goofy BATMAN shit.....straight from his creator.... and ghost writer....and inkers.....and background men....you get the picture.

oh yea....he even had a ghost painter......