History of Comic Books Podcast

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft", the now classic horror story by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez.

And now a rambling and too brief review of Jack Kirby's "The Fourth World", in which Kirby made his jump to DC in the 1970's to create such classic characters like Orion, Mister Miracle and Darkseid. Artistically, this is Kirby at his best but it also shows he need Stan Lee's writing for it to make some kind of sense.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Xenozoic" by Mark Schultz, the classic post-apocalyptic series that finds humans living among dinosaurs while trying to rebuild the wreckage of the past.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Fax From Sarajevo" by Joe Kubert, a harrowing true story of survival during the Bosnian War that is quite possibly the comic book masters greatest work.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Cerebus: High Society" by Dave Sim, which collects #26-50 of the comic book series that finds Cerebus ditching his sword for politics, only to find it much more cutthroat.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Camelot 3000" by Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland, the classic science fiction/fantasy story that is also one of the first maxi-series ever produced.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Calvin & Hobbes" by Bill Waterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time.

And now a rambling and too short review of the classic mini-series, "The Books of Magic" from DC/Vertigo and written by Neil Gaiman.

And now a rambling and too brief review of "Bone" by Jeff Smith, one of my all time favorite comic books.

And now a rambling and too brief biography on Rube Goldberg, the dean of cartoonists.

And now the conclusion to this rambling and too brief biography of the 'Good Duck Artist', Carl Barks.

And now the first part of this rambling and too brief biography of Carl Barks, the 'Good Duck Artist' of Disney comic books.

And now a rambling and too brief biography of Julie Schwartz, one of the greatest editors in DC's history.

And now the conclusion to this rambling and too brief biography of Gene Colan, one of the greatest artists of the Silver Age and beyond.

And now a rambling and too brief biography of Mort Meskin, a Golden Age artist who rivaled no less than Jack Kirby in the beginning, only for his personal demons to derail his career.

And now the conclusion to this rambling and too brief biography of Gardner Fox, probably the greatest writer in DC's history.

And now the first part of this rambling and too brief biography of Gardner Fox, arguably DC's greatest writer.

And now the conclusion to this rambling and too brief history of King Features Syndicate, one of the great syndicates of the comic strip medium.

And the first part of this rambling and too brief history of King Features Syndicate, one of the most important comic strip syndicates in the medium.