History

12 May 2010

The Four Colour Process

Check out these fantastic closeups of old comics. Really gorgeous stuff. Read More
1 Apr 2010

Inside Scanlation

If the word 'Scanlation' is a new one to you, head over to Inside Scanlation to find out what it is all about. Scanlation has always found itself in a moral gray area. While publishers and other professionals tend to see scanlation as copyright ... Read More
1 Apr 2010

Digital Comics Museum

Head over to the Digital Comics Museum, which is run by the very same folk that have been running the Golden Age Comics site. We are the #1 site for downloading FREE public domain Golden Age Comics. All files here have been researched by our staff and users to make sure they are copyright ... Read More
20 Jan 2010

The Rise of The Comic Paper, 1891

An interesting 119 year old article about the rise of the 'comic paper' by David Anderson that appeared in the Magazine of Art vol 14 in 1891. Read More
7 Jan 2010

Early Bill Watterson Strips

From Calvin & Hobbes: Magic on Paper is a collection of Bill Watterson's early strips while at college for Ohio's Kenyon College newspaper, The Kenyon Collegian. I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't love Calvin & Hobbes. Read More
26 Dec 2009

Where we have been and where we are going.

Paul Gravett writes up a brief history of the graphic novel, To know where we are going to, we need to know where we’ve come from. This is true of our lives as well as our culture. In the case of the comics medium, its date of birth used to be hotly contested. Twenty ... Read More
12 Nov 2009

Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’

This has been doing the rounds recently, but I thought I'd post it up anyway. From Monsters & Rockets; Nobody who has read Richard McGuire's 1989 comic stripHere has ever forgotten it. (Originally printed in Raw: Vol. 2, Number 1, ... Read More
11 Nov 2009

Deep Focus Tezuka

Craig Fischer over at Thought Balloonists writes up an interesting article on Osamu Tezuka's film influences following what sounds like an enjoyable read of Natsu Onoda Power's God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka ... Read More
10 Nov 2009

Rube Goldberg on Fuel

From the always-fascinating Prelinger Archive Read More
28 Oct 2009

The Honduran Coup — A Graphic History

From Dan Archer & Nikil Saval over at Archcomix.com is The Honduran Coup - A Graphic History. Check the site out for more comix to be featured on this site soon. Read More