Happy Easter and some links

Still surprises me that the Milton Caniff's work is so popular that there's a whole day set aside to celebrate Steve Canyon's sidekick, Happy Easter.

Meanwhile, all Steve gets is a big hole in Arizona named after him.

Ty Templeton makes sure we don't forget the true meaning of Easter, violence and rabbits.

A Walt Kelly Easter cover.


A little seen Swamp Thing cameo by George Perez.  Hey, Swamp Thing was there at the first Easter.  Sort of...

Beanworld fan The Naimis presents Beanworld Easter Eggs created with something called an Egg-Bot. 

Rick Veitch draws Doctor Strange.  That has nothing to do with Easter.  Well, Veitch did write a story about Swamp Thing at the first Easter.  Sort of...

Upcoming Comics - Sergio Aragones Funnies

Hm, I don't buy a lot of on-going comics, but here's one coming up from Bongo that I'm really tempted by...

SERGIO ARAGONES FUNNIES #1
By Sergio Aragones
Matt Groening proudly presents an all-new monthly series by the world's most famous and most honored cartoonist, Sergio Aragonés! Each issue offers an assortment of autobiographical anecdotes, perplexing puzzles, slap-happy short stories, as well as Sergio's unique and hilarious pantomimes and gags. With this new series, the world's most beloved cartoonist continues to prove that humor is truly a universal language!

King Hell Heroica by Rick Veitch

The "King Hell Heroica" is the collective name for an unfinished series of inter-connected super-hero comics created and published by Rick Veitch, starting with BRAT PACK in 1990 (retroactively Book Four) and continuing through THE MAXIMORTAL (Book One) before ending, for now, with two issues of the BRAT PACK / MAXIMORTAL SUPER SPECIAL in 1996/1997.  The specials outline the projected full Heroica at the time, including two more books set between the existing books (BOY MAXIMORTAL (Book Two) and TRUE-MAN, THE MAXIMORTAL (Book Three)) and several more specials providing a meta-textual bridging structure and final conclusion to be collected as Book Five of the Heroica.

I read BRAT PACK as is came out and got the collected edition of THE MAXIMORTAL several years ago, but somehow missed the two Specials and didn't have too much luck finding them.  The recent publication of TEEN ANGELS & NEW MUTANTS, Steve Bissette's book-length treatise on BRAT PACK, gave me the impetus to finally pick up the collected edition of BRAT PACK (which is heavily revised from the original serialized version I'd read) and as fortune would have it I was able to find the Specials as well.  So, before getting to TEEN ANGELS I decided to (re-)read the published Heroica.

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Happy Sheldon Mayer Day

94 years ago today, Sheldon Mayer was born. How do Sugar and Spike feel about that?

It's always about the cake with kids, isn't it?  This year, of course, in addition to the cake his virtual kids can join us in celebrating the upcoming release of SUGAR & SPIKE ARCHIVES v1.  Just don't let the kids get too close to the book unattended, they'll probably try to eat it...