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the host is toast

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Hostess Twinkies Marvel Comics ad, ca. 1976 Illustration: Ross Andru (1927-1993), pencils, and Mike Esposito (1927-2010), inks Farewell Hostess Brands 1930-2012 (parts of the company, like Drake’s, date back to the late-1880s), pending a last-minute save … Continue reading

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willard: away from the word people

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Willard Harlan Mullin was amongst the most widely published—and culturally influential—specialty cartoonists in the country, as a sports cartoonist. Once upon a time as significant a position in the sports pages as any but now, for … Continue reading

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suddenly mary

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MONSTER UNLEASHED: Happy Birthday Mary Shelley 1797-1851 It was a “wet, ungenial summer” in Switzerland when Mary Godwin (traveling as “Mrs. Shelley”) went to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and their son, and Claire Clairmont … Continue reading

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osama obama doctrine: no hayseed that holy warrior

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Stranger May 4-10, 2011 issue Illustration: Jim Blanchard For the 11th anniversary of September 11, 2001 I present my favorite image epitaph for the legacy of that event, from last spring 2011 (numbers make you … Continue reading

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bonding over pop culture

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MAD EC Publications, July 1969 issue, #128 Design and Illustration: Bob Clarke (b. 1926) Beginning mostly last week and this week, children of all ages across the country went “back to school,” or as was the … Continue reading

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long live the king

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Jack Kirby self-portrait DC Comics, ca. early-1970s Illustration: Jack “King” Kirby (1917-1994), pencils, and Vince Colletta (1923-1991), inks. As the gallery description notes, over the course of the next week we will post a-Kirby-a-day as we … Continue reading

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call of the wild: back to basics

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: We are fast approaching the centennial (October!) of the publication of Tarzan of the Apes—in the pages of the pulp periodical All Story Magazine—but let us take a moment to tribute his creator, and the creator … Continue reading

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silver surfers

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience Marvel Comics/Simon & Schuster, 1978 Illustration (left): Jack “King” Kirby (1917-1994) Illustration (right): Earl Norem (b. 1924), based on an original sketch by Jack Kirby Part 4 of LONG … Continue reading

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Kaluta

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Detective Comics “50th Anniversary” DC Comics, March 1987 issue, #572 Illustration Michael Wm Kaluta (b. 1947) HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL WM. KALUTA! We’ve been so busy with our week-long Jack Kirby celebration that we have nearly been … Continue reading

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kirby imagined BIG: rise of new gods

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Concept Art: Fourth World characters, clockwise from top left: Orion, Light Ray, Mantis, and Mister Miracle (see if you can spot the changes from these to the finished designs) DC Comics Proposal, ca. 1970 Illustration: Jack … Continue reading

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