Kleefeld on Comics

I just stumbled across this post I made back in 2021.

One of the reasons I like looking at original art is to see more of the process that creators put into their work.

I'm behind on my reading, so I only just got around to The Rocketeer: The Island.

Today is Labor Day in the U.S., which is a federal holiday dedicated to honoring working class folks.

Here are this week's links to what I've had published recently...

As I've mentioned a few times here before, I've recently started using ComicBase to catalog my comics collection.

Qiana Whitted pointed me some time back to this interview with Don McGregor by Cliff Galbraith.

I periodically do these "who was" posts about comparatively obscure cartoonists and folks in the comics industry, and most of the time, there are folks that a lot of people haven't heard of but there may be a few scholars who have.

The original King Kong was released on March 2, 1933 in New York City and to the full United States on April 7.

I was saddenedly to hear of the passing of Will Murray over the weekend.

Here are this week's links to what I've had published recently...

In honor of Jack Kirby's birthday today...

Sky Masters has got to be the most under-appreciated work in Jack Kirby's career.

It's reasonably well-known, at least in comics circles, that Jack Kirby was actually born Jacob Kurtzberg.

The Blue Beetle was originally developed for Victor Fox's comic book Mystery Men Comics in mid-1939 by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski, who went by the pen name Charles Nicholas.

This Friday is Jack Kirby's birthday, so I'm going to take the entire week to talk about the King of Comics.

Here are this week's links to what I've had published recently...

Tomorrow is Ray Bradbury's birthday so let's take a look at his comics work.

"What happened in August 1972," you ask?

Lots going on, so I don't really have a legit post for today, just today's Zippy comic strip...

Emerald City Comic Con announced that in 2027, their show will use only digital badges instead of more traditional physical ones.

Do you know G.B.

Here are this week's links to what I've had published recently...

I don't think I've read Animal Crackers since the late 1980s.

When I was a teenager, I saw the movie Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason.