Fred Van Lente Day
That’s It For This Year’s Fred Van Lente Day!
We hope you had a holly, jolly Fred Van Lente Day!
If you missed anything, here is my review of Comic Book Comics, here is my review of Archer and Armstrong #1-4, here is a chat I did with Fred where I asked him YOUR questions that YOU submitted, here is a strange Fred Van Lente comic book for I Love Ya But You’re Strange and here are your submissions for a challenge where everyone drew a page from Archer and Armstrong #1 based on a script page by Fred Van Lente!
Happy Fred Van Lente Day, everyone! See you next year! Same Van Lente Time, Same Van Lente Blog!
Temptation’s Page – Archer and Armstrong #1, Page 17: Voting Time!
Okay, here are the people who have submitted their take on Page 17 of Archer and Armstrong #1 by today’s celebrant, Fred Van Lente (which was originally penciled by Clayton Henry)!
Read on to see the script page and then the entries! You will have a chance to vote for your favorite. Your votes mixed with Fred’s (and perhaps me if need be) will decide the winner!
I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Machine Man and Howard the Duck Come to OUR World!
Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have a suggestion for a future installment!
Today, in honor of Fred Van Lente Day, we’ll spotlight the final issue of the hilariously offbeat Marvel Zombies 5, where Machine Man and Howard the Duck traveled the multiverse and end their mission on OUR Earth!
Fred Van Lente Day Flashback!
It just occurred to me, like, a half hour ago that I didn’t have the first Fred Van Lente Day up on this blog. It was still only at the old blog. So I added them all to the archive now, so they exist on this site (because they were missing, I thought that this was the seventh annual Fred Van Lente Day when it is actually the EIGHTH annual Fred Van Lente Day!)
Here are links to the first five Fred Van Lente Day posts from December 2005, including something that I totally forgot, which is that the first Fred Van Lente Day was when I announced Greg Hatcher was going to write for the blog.
A Van Lente Day Present From Me To You – Greg Hatcher
This Comic Is Good – Action Philosophers
Fred Van Lente Answers Your Questions!
Here is this year’s Fred Van Lente chat, where I asked Fred reader-submitted questions!
Enjoy!
Archer and Armstrong #1-4 Review
The initial story arc in Fred Van Lente, Clayton Henry and Matt Milla’s Archer and Armstrong has just ended and it was a real blast (that was not intended as a pun, but there WERE a good deal of explosions in the comic, as well).
Let’s take a look!
The Comic Book History of Comics Review
Speaking of the Comic Book History of Comics, a wise man once wrote, “In this dazzling overview of comic book history, the only thing that impresses as much as the palatable feeling of love for comics by Van Lente and Dunlavey is the painstaking research clearly put into this well-organized, insightful and brilliantly illustrated comic book collection.” You can find that quote on the back of the book. So…yeah, I definitely liked this collection.
Let’s examine it a bit further, though!
Happy Fred Van Lente Day!
It’s that special time of year again, that most awesome of holidays, Fred Van Lente Day!
In honor of the occassion, we’ll be getting back to the roots of the holiday with reviews of the Comic Book History of Comics and Van Lente’s first Archer and Armstrong arc, as well as revealing the entries for the Archer and Armstrong Temptation’s Page challenge!
Plus, an I Love Ya But You’re Strange featuring a Van Lente-penned comic!
Plus, this week’s topic for The Line it is Drawn suggestions will be Van Lente-related!
Finally, best of all, the transcript of the chat I did with Fred this week will go up later today!
Happy Eighth Annual Fred Van Lente Day, everyone (well, eighth annual OBSERVED, of course, Fred Van Lente Day goes back centuries)!
Fred Van Lente Day Chat
This past Tuesday, we celebrated our sixth annual Fred Van Lente Day here at the blog. The man himself, Fred Van Lente, joined me in an online chat about comic book history. We were joined by a number of special guests, including Ryan Dunlavey, Fred’s collaborator on the Comic Book History of Comics (which you can read about here), Greg Pak, Fred’s co-writer on The Incredible Hercules, Herc and Alpha Flight and also Steve Lieber, noted comic book artist who joined Fred for a fascinating discussion about comic book piracy.
Read on for the official transcript of the chat!
Thanks for Coming Out for the Fred Van Lente Day Chat!
It was great fun, with some surprising special guests like Ryan Dunlavey, Greg Pak and Steve Lieber. A lot of fascinating discussions. I’ll post the transcript soon.
I hope everyone had a great Fred Van Lente Day!
Fred Van Lente Day: Fred Van Lente Chat!
Fred and I are chatting about comic book history, a sort of team-up between The Comic Book History of Comics and Comic Book Legends Revealed.
Feel free to come join our discussion and ask pertinent questions. We might answer you!
Here is the link to the chatroom.
Fred Van Lente Day Announcement: The Comic Book History of Comics From IDW!
Our major Fred Van Lente Day news of the day is that IDW Publishing will be collecting Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey’s great Comic Book Comics mini-series into a collection called The Comic Book History of Comics!
Read on for a description of the series an exclusive first look at the cover of the collection!
Fred Van Lente Day: The First Five Pages of Renaissance Chapter 1
Here’s the man himself, Fred Van Lente, letting you know what you need to know about his upcoming project, Renaissance…
RENAISSANCE is among the most challenging and ambitious projects I’ve ever attempted, and I’m happy to be joined by triple-threat artist Sarah Oleksyk (Oni’s “Ivy”) on art chores. It’s a story about the intertwined friendships and rivalries between legends like Machiavelli, Leonard da Vinci, Michelangelo, the Borgias, and, most importantly, Lisa del Giocondo, who will become one of the most famous women in history. It’s also about how one of the most vicious and brutal periods in history could produce some of the most beautiful pieces in the annals of art (with apologies to Harry Lime).
Sarah and I are hip-deep in the middle of this massive epic; she’s got a third inked and is coloring the second chapter now; once we’re about 50% done in mid-2012 we’re going to start posting it for free at http://renaissancethecomic.com/ (now live, but not much there).
But there’s no harm in sharing the first scene of the first chapter, in which we meet our heroine, the woman who will become the Mona Lisa — as well as some other important folks.
RENAISSANCE is copyright (c) 2011 Sarah Oleksyk & Fred Van Lente.
Read on to see the beautiful pages from Van Lente and Oleksyk…
Happy Fred Van Lente Day!
It’s that special time of year again, that most awesome of holidays, Fred Van Lente Day!
In honor of the occasion, we have some previews of an upcoming Van Lente comic series at 9am (Eastern), a first look at the collection for Comic Book Comics at Noon (Eastern) and at 2:30 PM (Eastern), we’ll even be having a live, online chat with the man himself!
Happy Fred Van Lente Day, everybody!
Fred Van Lente Day Chat Transcript!
As Fred Van Lente Day 2010 comes to a close, we have one last treat for you all! The transcript of this year’s Fred Van Lente Day chat with Mr. Fred Van Lente himself!
In this year’s Fred Van Lente Day chat, we had a very special guest in Fred’s Chaos War co-writer Greg Pak. So read on for a transcript of the chat!
Enjoy!
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