2011 November
The Birthday Story
Reminiscing in recent weeks about comics I loved when I was a sprout — and the decade-long battle with my mother from 1968 to around 1978 or so about whether I would be allowed to purchase and read comics at all — reminded me of a story I haven’t told here before.
The Greatest Lois Lane Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Robin Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
An 11/11/11 Comic Book Celebration!
- by Brian Cronin
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In honor of this unique date, 11/11/11 (and specifically 11:11 PM here on the East Coast), I will be posting the eleventh story page of the eleven most notable eleventh issues in comic book history! Enjoy!
The Greatest Neal Adams Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next creator up for voting is Neal Adams. Neal Adams is one of the top comic book artists of all-time. He has drawn many different comic books for both Marvel and DC, including some of the most memorable stories [...]
The Boisterous One
- by Bill Reed
- in General
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I’m a Bill Mantlo fan, and I have been since before I knew who Bill Mantlo was. Before I read the credit boxes, I was drawn to his stories. I have a portrait of ROM Spaceknight hanging above me as I write this. It’s for that reason that I must share with you this heartrending, [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #340
Welcome to the three hundredth and fortieth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn the inspiration behind both the Trial of Reed Richards and Knightfall! Plus, did the Katzenjammer Kids have to change their name because of anti-German sentiment during World War I? [...]
The Greatest Jason Aaron Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Rogue Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Iron Fist Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next character up for voting is Iron Fist. Iron Fist has had a number of solo series over the years, as well as a successful team-up with Luke Cage in a shared ongoing series. That partnership continues as the [...]
Death and Amanda Palmer Duet!
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 14 Comments
This week’s Line it is Drawn is comic book characters teaming up (or being mashed up) with famous musicians. You can check the gallery out here. One of our artists, Nick Perks, did two bonus pieces. Here is the second one! Nick drew the following suggestion of our own Eisner Award nominee, caanan: Amanda Palmer [...]
Morpheus Meets Robert Smith of the Cure!
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 12 Comments
This week’s Line it is Drawn is comic book characters teaming up (or being mashed up) with famous musicians. You can check the gallery out here. One of our artists, Sean McFarland, did a BONUS piece! Sean saw that so many people wanted to see Morpheus and Robert Smith and the Cure meet, he just [...]
Planetary Gets a New Drummer…Ringo Starr!?
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 17 Comments
This week’s Line it is Drawn is comic book characters teaming up (or being mashed up) with famous musicians. You can check the gallery out here. One of our artists, Nick Perks, did two bonus pieces. Here is the first one! Nick drew the following suggestion of BigMike20X6: Planetary gets a new ‘Drummer’ – Ringo [...]
What I bought – 9 November 2011
“We took unremarkable men: usual bankers, run-of-the-mill priests, ordinary soldiers and statesmen and wives – and sacramentalized their mediocrity. We smoothed their noons with strings divisi! We pierced their nights with chittarini! We gave them processions for their strutting – serenades for their rutting – high horns for their hunting, and drums for their wars! [...]
The Line It Is Drawn #65 – Comic Book Characters and Musicians
Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]
