Words and Pictures

A Glimpse at Studio Giolitti Italian artist Alberto Giolitti (1923-1993) was one of my earliest comic art influences. I didn't know his ...

Health Consequences of Comics It was 1959. I was ten years old, happy, and healthy. Especially happy, because I was clutching the latest iss...

A window onto a past window onto the past This weekend I was excited to receive a gift of 38 tearsheets from Corriere dei Piccoli, the lege...

Plus That Script! In an interview given many years ago, Alex Toth advocated that comic artists should "plus" a script when convert...

The Need for Speed (continued) In the last post we looked at speedy Frank Godwin fighting the Deadline Doom in some old Connie strips. We a...

The Need for Speed While working on a Connie collection recently, I encountered an example of a capable artist pushed to the wall by deadl...

Where You At? It's been too long since I posted here. Life has been a bit too interesting...spent a couple days in the hospital after go...