New God by Pope

Fingers crossed for more Fourth World-ers as seen by Paul Pope.

High Art Flies High

More on Jeff Koons Macy's balloon here.

Astroboy and Gigantor Live!

New Kochalka!

Congratulations, Amy and James!

Alex Toth: Drawings

Check out Collecting Fool's gallery of Alex Toth drawings here
Alex Toth bio here
Official Toth website here

Allred on Stardust

Mike Allred talks about reviving "Stardust" for The Next Issue Project by Image comics.

More on Stardust creator Fletcher Hanks here.

Buy "I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks" here.

Zadzooks!: Sienkiewicz Interview

Mike Mignola: Pre-Hellboy

Dig some of Mike Mignola's work from the days before Hellboy!

The Incredible Hulk #307, 1985 (cover)

Batgirl Special #1, 1988 (cover)

Cosmic Odyssey #1 of 4, 1989 (cover and story art)

Marvel Comics Presents: Cyclops #20, 1989 (cover)

Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure, 1989/1990 (cover and story art)

Dark Horse Comics #2, 1992 (cover)

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #54, 1993 (cover and story art)

Actually... I think this book came out just months after Hellboy's debut...

Program for 2007 Baltimore Comic Con (cover)
post-Hellboy, obviously... from this past September...

and the man himself, Mike Mignola speaking at the 2007 Baltimore Comic Con

Download an audio interview with Mike from Wordballoon here
Wordballoon Interview Podcast site here

Mike Mignola bio here
HELLBOY Official site here

Gorillaz Live

Jamie Hewlett bio here.
Gorillaz official site here.

BodyWorld

Check out the prelude to Dash Shaw's webcomic, "BodyWorld," here.
More comics by Shaw here.

Paul Norris, 1914-2007

Aquaman co-creator died yesterday.

Obit here.

Magnus, the Robot Fighter by Norris

Lost Kirby found at Best Buy

Fantastic Four #108 (art by John Buscema)

Jack Kirby's art for Fantastic Four #102 was shelved by Stan Lee- although parts were used as flashbacks in issue #108 (above). Marvel has released the lost issue as a Best Buy DVD exclusive (with Silver Surfer figurine, natch).

More info here.

The Big Eight Oh for Ditko!

Happy Birthday, Steve!

Beyond beyond...

Blogs to be bookmarked-
"Beyond the Groovy Age of Horror" features an interview with Richard Sala as well as some great scans and synopses of pulp novels.

"Datajunkie" (discovered by Nick) does some analysis of the work of Steve Ditko, Gil Kane, Wally Wood and Jack Kirby. It takes a while to load but it's worth it.