Words and Pictures

Crawford in the Comics King of Diamonds was a short-lived American TV show from the early 1960s. It wasn't much. I watched it because I...

Back from Translation Recently I was experimenting with an Italian reprint of Mel Graff's first year on Secret Agent X-9. The book was ...

Babe, Barrel, Bottles, Bullies--It's Delta 99! Cleaning one's garage leads to wonderful rediscoveries like this one. From my small r...

The Con and the Big Con A look at the blog of Irene Gallo, art director of Tor Books ( http://igallo.blogspot.com/ ), brings into focus the ...

ComicCon: A Time of Pros and Cons I have been out of circulation recently, and haven't posted anything for a while. I just returned from...

George Olesen and his (Artistic) Music (That title is an in-joke for other fans of 1920s American popular music.) While indulging in my neve...

Why the Hell Do You Like That?! Like every comic strip fan, I have a special regard for some features that, when anyone else sees them, pro...