More fun characters hot off the pencil tip today from D (iego) C (omics)!!
This new super group is called The High Five.
Which one is your favorite?
I'm secretly hoping that Ska-doosh gets his own series (and maybe even a theme song, or a sidekick, or a henchman)!
These days anything seems possible!
Enjoy!
william
Move over, Stan Lee.
There is a new kid in town, with a vivid imagination and a seemingly endless supply of new superheroes and super villains to people his own cartoon universe.
Today's all-star team up is called The Nova Nine, and the members include:
A-Grow
Boost
The Ringtail
Sizeo
Man-Flame
High-Volt
The Anialatior
The Constrictor
Tony Jackstone
Diego is having a blast hand drawing these beautiful pictures and has become something of a factory for new characters daily.
Stay tuned, fans! Look for the "made up by Diego Horberg" credit as the sign for quality comic entertainment!
DC is the new name for Diego Comics.
Enjoy!
william
France.
1975.
Godard releases Numero Deux. Truffaut is making The Story of Adele H.
A bomb explodes in the Paris office of the Springer Press. The Baader-Meinhof group claim responsibility.
And the latest edition of STRANGE comics hits the newstands.
I found this vintage edition of STRANGE on my recent trip to Paris in one of those kiosks along the quay on the Seine. Somehow seeing all of my old comic book superheros speaking in French gave them a certain je ne sais quoi!
As these two pulsing figures of light say "prepare to be transmitted"!!
Enjoy!
william
Lot a lot of my friends back then, growing up in the sixties in Chicago I was enamored of comic books.
I started collecting them when I was eight or nine years old, and I remember taking several bus rides to get out to the small hard core gathering of avid comic book collectors taking place in the conference room of a bank out west on Irving Park Road in Chicago to buy my first golden age comics. I felt like one of the youngest kids in attendance that day.
I soon came to know the names of the great comic book artists of the day that people were starting to take seriously and search out the issues with their covers or artwork - Frank Frazetta, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, and earlier artists like Al Williamson, Carl Barks, Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff.
Over the years, as comics gained in respectability, more and more obscure artists have been rediscovered and their work has been republished and reintroduced to new generations of fans or brought to the attention of older fans for a new appreciation.
I grew up loving Edgar Rice Burroughs and had collected and read most of his novels in their ACE edition paperbacks. But I had never heard of Jesse Marsh, nor seen the DELL comic book series he drew based on Burroughs' Tarzan characters, until they were lovingly reprinted a few years back by Dark Horse.
Marsh was a Disney animator who came to draw Tarzan after WW2 and had a decades long run doing various books for Dell until the mid-sixties. His drawings are simple, almost naive, but they really capture a young boys imagination, even a 53 year young boy like myself.
I'm glad the excavation of 20th Century pop culture continues, and that they are digging deep to find these gems and give them new life.
Enjoy!
william
Here is a new entry from the continuing adventures of Diego and Natalie, which is just another name for my life in comic book form.
A lot of parents of children with autism may be able to relate to this one:
Any tips for those pickiest of eaters?
Thanks.
Enjoy!
william
Work In Progress is the name of the local production services company in Belgrade who have been wonderfully hosting our stay and wrangling the shooting of our film "Therese" here.
It is also an apt description of the comic book I have been scribbling in my few rare moments of rest and relaxation away from the set. I thought I'd share this work-in-progress with you here.
Enjoy!
william
Here are two rare covers by the genius comics artist Alex Raymond from an Italian large format comic from 1965 that I uncovered recently at one of those increasingly rare "yesteryears" comic book and nostalgia type shops during my stint in NYC.
As can be said about many things in life: "for those of you who know, no further explanation is necessary, for those who don't, know explanation will suffice."
But for the curious you can read more about Raymond's life and work here.
Like many 20th century artistic icons, he died too young, in a car accident at 47. Hs work as the creator of Flash Gordon was part of the dreamscape of generations of Americans, but it was fun to suddenly imagine a little raggazi on the streets of Milan or Roma cracking open this book in the mid-sixties too.
Enjoy!
william
I found these vintage cuban comic books in a stall at the Plaza de Cathedral in old Havana a few years back. They were published around 1965 in the early years of the revolution.
I couldn't find out much about the artists who created the work. But in the spirit of the times, I was struck by how the colorful and simple graphic adventures of the Munequitos within (a word which means small doll, but is also the cuban expression for cartoons), were combined with a dose of politics in the form of third world geography lessons on the back cover.
Hard to imagine an American kid getting educated on the agriculture of The Congo or the socialist economy of Saudi Arabia in the pages of his Marvel or D.C. comic book!
Enjoy!
william
51 years on Planet Earth today.
I've been working on a comic book memoir of my formative years as an avid consumer of '60's outer space culture, comics, science-fiction novels, magazines, fanzines, high school gymnasium collector conventions.
I hope to be able to share it with you all here someday.
At least before they recall me to my home planet!!
william
