How can you not love the Make-A-Wish Foundation? They don’t just help brighten a kid’s day with a book, some flowers or candy. No way. These guys go ALL out to make one very special kid feel like he’s the most important person in the universe. Take the latest wish, where they’re building a Millennium [...]
Author Archives: Andrew
Flashback Friday: Superman #422
August 7, 2009 – 6:00 am
In case you somehow lost your invitation, I’m starting up a regular theme over here at ComicBookMarks. I used to run Friday flashbacks on an old blog of mine where I’d post videos of cheesy old ’80s songs. It’s fun, nostalgic and, well, yeah, it’s fairly easy to stay focused if I have a theme. [...]
Be a hero… Help John Ostrander
August 3, 2009 – 4:07 pm
I may’ve been a Marvel Zombie growing up, but luckily I opened my eyes (and mind) to some wonderful DC books back in the early ’80s. Just in time for Perez/Wolfman’s Titans, Miller’s Dark Knight and Moore’s Watchmen. Pretty good timing, right? But it went beyond that. My best friend Ethan was a DC Zombie [...]
Lego Arnim Zola and His Legion of Custom MiniFigs
July 28, 2009 – 6:00 am
Like most kids growing up in the ’80s, I dug Legos. I remember this big bin I had just filled with my giant collection of Legos and the dozens of instruction booklets needed to build the various space stations and construction worker sets. And being the big geeky comic book fan that I was, I’d [...]
Greatest Toy Packaging Ever… Activate
July 23, 2009 – 11:25 am
If you’re lucky enough to be in San Diego right now for the annual cram-way-too-many-smelly-people-wearing-Wolverine-T-shirts-into-one-giant-hall-and-make-them-forget-how-to-walk-in-an-orderly-fashion event (also known as Comic-Con), then make sure you stop by the Mattel booth. I have no clue where it is at the show. I’m not there. But chances are, it’s kind of in the middle, near all the other [...]
Why haven’t you seen Tom Whalen’s art yet?
July 22, 2009 – 3:27 pm
There are so many great artists in comics today. And so many pretty mediocre ones too. So it always blows my mind when I stumble across a really unique and talented artist, who’d be perfect on a regular comic. Tom Whalen may not have the chops for sequential work (then again, he may; I have [...]
School’s In at Hero House
July 20, 2009 – 6:00 am
It’s shout-out time. My buddy Justin has been working his tailbone off for the past 18 years or so on his comic book Hero House. Well, I’m pleased to finally announce (mainly because it means he’ll stop complaining to me regularly about all the delays and problems involved in getting your own comic published… kidding, [...]
The Battle for New York starts in Queens
July 17, 2009 – 1:44 pm
Don’t bother hitting your local comic shop for this summer’s latest Marvel Comics crossover. Uh uh. Instead, hop in your car and head to Queens, NY to see the work of street artist Gusto. Located at 86th Street and Roosevelt Ave., this giant wall mural covers the side of a T-Mobile building, which donated the [...]
Rob Liefeld’s Greatest Work
September 4, 2008 – 3:27 pm
Love him or hate him, you’ve gotta remember this classic Levi’s commercial from the ’90s. It features my all-time favorite superhero: The Spike Man! And of course the classic revelation that Rob’s never had any formal art training. Shocking I know!
A Different Kind of Sketchbook
August 20, 2008 – 3:51 pm
Anyone who’s ever been to a comic convention knows that artists will sit there sketching out doodles or detailed illos for fans. Usually in those little black hardcover books. Well, I may not be able to take this sketchbook home (heck, nobody could), but the Etch-A-Sketchist has done some amazing comic work. Yes, all on [...]
