Remember when Count Duckula met Geraldo? I know, how can anyone forget that one.

My favorite artist, Dina Kelberman, has a new comic for Tiny Mix Tapes called Best Friends. Love her other work from her own website www.importantcomics.com

from the magazine 1984, Feb. 1979. An “adult” fantasy publication that ironically went bankrupt before it ever saw the year 1984. As for this particular comic, man  what a title. If some budding band out there didn’t just find their new stage name, I have failed. See “the SPUD” after the jump – it’s actually a pretty great drawing.

Click below to see an eyeball tentacle! an ominous title! and a halloween mask that looks like the gross old Six Flags man!

Not too, too long ago, Charles Burns’s amazing Black Hole was compiled into a single volume. It’s a book I highly recommend picking up especially if, like me, you missed a few issues. The only downside is that the collected Black Hole does not feature the color cover art, which is a huge bummer because the high contrast style Burns works in can really become overwhelming when you’re plowing through dozens of pages in a single sitting; it would have been an excellent idea to include the color work just to break the book up a bit. Oh well,  I’m sure budget considerations had something to do with it… anyway, here are the front and back covers from the six issues I have here at home.

75 cents well spent! (plus it was my first ever glimpse of that awesome 80’s mohawk Storm had, that you can see in the upper left hand corner)

Purchased at The Brimfield Market from the amazing vendor I profiled here. These were funny comics you’d send to your boys over seas with the intention to embarrass him a bit in from of the other soldiers with a very large lady on the envelope. This is the first of four very prized possessions. I love the drawing style.

A couple of years back on a trip to Montreal, I was searching through a bookstore there and came across this amazingly beautiful comic book. I took 5 years of french, but even reading a Tin Tin comic is a bit hard for me, since they are written for above a 3rd grade level. However I bought the comic, not understanding 90% of it. But I wanted to know more. Over the years I’ve collected a few of these volumes from random french speaking areas (canada, france, belgium), which I found out were part of a series called “Les Cités Obscures” created by a Belgian artist named François Schuiten. By now I’ve been able to get the gist of the stores about a distant land and its collection of independent city states each with a unique style, but honestly a lot of the plots are still a mystery to me.

I knew these weren’t very popular in the states, but recently I’ve found out only a couple of these hard bound comics have been reprinted in english, however I’ve stuck to picking up a french version every now and then, its makes it more of an adventure for me to translate it, and more time to admire the illustrations.