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johnrozum:

Untitled - Ferris Beuller’s Day Off piece. Cut paper collage. I made this a couple years ago for the John Hughes tribute show at Gallery 1988. 

Avengers Assemble #16 variant cover by Amanda Conner

Nice. That’s issue #10000 in Binary numbers.

(Source: comicartappreciation, via kellysue)

johnbyrnedraws:

Iron Fist #15, page 11 by John Byrne & Dan Green. 1977.

I’m trying to remember why Wolverine was wearing that costume at this particular time.

(via themarvelageofcomics)

highway62:

banal-echo-gee:

dcinthe80s:

Atari Force v2

What started as an endorsement deal between Atari and DC comics (both owned by Warner Communications) in 1982 evolved into this gem of a space opera.

In 1984, DC comics launched Atari Force v2 as a follow-up to the 1982 Atari Force series of mini-comics that were packaged along with Atari home video games. This premise of this second series is that it’s set about 20 years after the first series and has a different cast of characters. Some fans speculated that Atari Force’s overall concept was reminiscent of Marvel’s Micronauts.

This second series didn’t have anything to do with Atari video games (other than the word ‘Atari’ appearing in the title) and ran for 20 issues and 1 special. While Atari Force didn’t have much to do with the rest of the DC Universe, they do manage to slip a Crisis on Infinite Earths reference in issue #18 (they attempt to navigate their ship through the mangled multiverse).

This series is notable for it’s high profile creative team. It was written by Gerry Conway and illustrated by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (and sometimes Ross Andru penciled an issue). Near the end of the series Mike Baron (Nexus) took over writing chores and Eduardo Barreto became the regular penciler. Amazing Heroes #63 listed Atari Force as #8 on the list of 10 best comic books of 1984.

An essay in the letter column of the last issue of the series explained that Atari Force was being cancelled because, while sales were still okay, they wanted to end the series on a high note rather than overstay their welcome and watch the book’s sales deteriorate. Another reason that may have contributed to the series cancellation was the North American video game crash of 1983 - which resulted in Warner Communications selling Atari Inc in 1985.

While being highly acclaimed by anyone who read it at the time, this series will most likely never get reprinted due to licensing issues.

I inherited the first five issues of this series from a cousin who was trying to get rid of all the comics he had no interest in. I didn’t care much for this series but I always thought Dart (grey-skinned white-haired woman) was pretty hot.

A really great Atari Force fansite: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/AtariForce/intro.shtml

This is a great series and it’s a shame we’ll never get a trade paperback of it.

These are comics you should buy when you see them in bargain bins. You do paw through bargain bins at shows, right?

skottieyoung:

#DailySketch The Shadow. 

Original for sale in MY STORE

fantagraphics:

newyorker:

A cartoon by Shannon Wheeler. For more cartoons from the issue: http://nyr.kr/106KD9I

Oil and Water artist Shannon Wheeler in The New Yorker this week.

highway62:

Looks like Ash was right. Less is indeed more.

So it’s ambient metal and not pyrotechnic. Got it.

Okay, credit: The reason any of this looks good is because Alex Sheikman is a fantastic artist and underrated as a designer. He drew the line art and the logo. If anything, I just got in the way.