2000adonline:

With summer fast approaching now is the perfect time to get yourself a funky fresh new look-or some new t-shirts and bags,at least!

Plastichead in conjunction with 2000AD have a fabulous line in tees-long and short,hoodies and even tote or shoulder bags,ideal for the beach or town.

Sporting your favourite 2000AD characters by all the top creators,and very high quality,you’ll be the envy of all your friends and family!

Prices start at for cotton tote bag,up to for a heavy cotton hoodie,with t-shirts about -so don’t be a grexnix and stand out from all the jealous non-scrots!!

2000adonline:

It’s time for a 2000 AD giveaway!! Reblog this image for the chance to win this cute Judge Death plush or one of THREE sets of Manga-size Judge Dredd classics!

johnbyrnedraws:

Legends #6, page 1 by John Byrne & Karl Kesel.

mylambsellscondos:

It Was a Dark and Rainy Night by Joe Kubert

fantagraphics:

Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures: The Joe Kubert Archives Vol. 1
by Joe Kubert; edited by Bill Schelly

240-page full-color 7.5” x 10.75” hardcover •
ISBN: 978-1-60699-581-5

Ships in: December 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now

See more images in our Flickr set.

Joe Kubert sealed his reputation as one of the greatest American comicbook cartoonists of all time with the four-color adventures of Sgt. Rock of Easy Company, Enemy Ace, and Tarzan, all done for DC Comics during the 1960s and 1970s (themselves already the subject of archival editions)… but he had been working in comics since the 1940s. In fact, young Kubert produced an exciting, significant body of work as a freelance artist for a variety of comic book publishers in the postwar era, in a glorious variety of non-super hero genres: horror, crime, science fiction, western, romance, humor, and more.

For the first time, 33 of the best of these stories have been collected in one full-color volume, with a special emphasis on horror and crime. The Kubert work in this book is that of a burgeoning talent attacking the work with tremendous panache, and in the process, developing a style that became one of the most distinctive in the medium.

Since these stories were written and drawn in the pre-Comics Code era, they are more thrilling, violent and sexy (by contemporary standards) than much of his later, Code-constrained work. And just the titles of the comic books from which these stories are taken are wonderfully evocative of a bygone era of four-color fun: Cowpuncher, Abbott and Costello Comics, Three Stooges, Eerie, Planet Comics, Meet Miss Pepper, Strange Terrors, Green Hornet Comics, Whack, Jesse James, Out of This World, Crime Does Not Pay, Weird Thrillers, Police Lineup, and Hollywood Confessions.

As with Fantagraphics’ acclaimed Steve Ditko and Bill Everett Archives series, Weird Horrors and Daring Adventures boasts state-of-the-art restoration and retouching, and an extensive set of historical notes and an essay by the book’s editor Bill Schelly, author of the Art of Joe Kubert art book and Man of Rock Kubert biography.

zegas:

I know Joe Kubert is mostly defined by his war comics, but I always liked his bold brush lines, simultaneously loose and controlled, when applied to superhero comics. It was such an odd and compelling combination. 

The Silver Age of comics doesn’t seem like a lifetime ago to me, it still feels relatively in and of this world. So it’s a little weird to see that era come to an end slowly, bit by bit.

Joe Kubert passed away yesterday. 

Here are some links to more info/art/interviews/retrospectives about Joe Kubert. 

comicblah:

Happy Friday! Here’s the cover to ROM Spaceknight #1.

comicblah:

Rom #18 cover by Frank Miller & Terry Austin

seanhowe:

harperbooks:

On my desk: finished copies of Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you! These books are actually in, uh, Near Mint—it’s part of the design that the covers look scuffed up like old comics.

The 500 pages on the inside are guaranteed to be perfectly crisp, with no creases or tears. Store in a cool, dry area.

(via seanhowe)

Rom by Bill Sienkiewicz

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