A dozen or so comic links

James Vance just posted that he has the final pages of Dan Burr's artwork for ON THE ROPES, the upcoming sequel to their classic KINGS IN DISGUISE. That original is some great stuff, I'll have to pull it out and re-read it before the new book comes out. Burr's art looks sharp on the cover and brief look at the interior work that Vance posted, and the story (catching up on Freddie's story five years later in 1937) sounds intriguing.

Jay Hosler has a neat science comic by a promising newcomer, his son Max.

The Kirby Effect is the new journal of the Jack Kirby Museum, where you'll be able to find things like this 1992 interview with Kirby, both audio recording and transcript.

If you don't already have a copy of Michael Zulli's FRACTURE OF THE UNIVERSAL BOY, Zulli is now selling copies directly. Very beautiful and very strange book.

Mark Evanier on a meeting of Ray Bradbury, Julius Schwartz and Al Feldstein in San Diego, Part 1, Part 2,  Part 3 and Part 4.

Evan Dorkin posts the plot to an unpublished Rocketeer story.

Larry Marder has a copy of his upcoming BEANWORLD book, and the three previous books are all available digitally.

It's good to see Stephen Bissette with some new projects in the works, already including a Tyrant colour print (my copy seen to the left with an older Bissette Tyrant original and a Sam Glanzman Kona sketch) and some new t-shirts, with the promise of more to come.

Jim Lawson is serializing his original PALEO comics on-line, start here.

Or, if you prefer, I've started reading webcomics through Comic Rocket, which has a few problems but is already much more convenient than other ways of following webcomics. You can subscribe to PALEO over here.

Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett's SECTION ZERO is also back as a webcomic, with most of the existing pages already up, with a few new pages mixed in, and more new pages promised after the reprints are done.  Here on Comic Rocket or start here.

Nick Caputo has some interesting research on some rare Marvel comics, including BIG BOY and a NAACP voter registration giveaway.

Todd Klein has a detailed and well illustrated (photos and floor plans!) look at the DC production department of the late 1970s, Part 1 and Part 2.

Check out the Curt Swan artwork on Swanderful.