It seems you haven’t really made it as an artist until there’s a comic book about you. Caravaggio is the latest to have joined the ranks of artists, including Egon Schiele, Hokusai and Frieda Kahlo, immortalised in the so-called ninth art with a new comic book by Milo Manara, published by the French house Glénat. […]
Lichtenstein Drawing Acquired for $10 Expected to Achieve over $1,000,000 at Christie’s
NEW YORK (AP).- The invitation to a 1960s “happening” was intriguing: Pay $10 to enter a lottery for the chance to get a key to a Penn Station locker containing artwork. For one New Yorker who attended the 1965 event, the key revealed a Roy Lichtenste…
Spider-Man’s Debut Comic Sells for $1.1 Million
By: Matt Moore, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP)- A comic collector has been caught in Spider-Man’s web, paying $1.1 million for a near-mint copy of “Amazing Fantasy” No. 15 that features the wall-crawler’s debut. The issue, first published in 1962,…
Bam! Pow! Indian Comics Clamor to Make their Mark
By: Katy Daigle, Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP).- The superhero — bulging legs stuffed into tight pants, broad chest adorned with a symbol of power — has vowed to fight the enemies of humanity. He is not Superman. He is not Batman. He is Shaktima…
First "Bat-man" Comic Proof Pages, Saved from the Trash in Queens, Highlight Comics Event at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS; TX.- The original 1939 production proofs for pages 2-6 of Detective Comics #27, otherwise known as the first appearance of “The Bat-Man,” perhaps the closest the world will ever get to the original art for this monumental comic book – lo…
Four Emerging, Chicago-Based Cartoonists Exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- New Chicago Comics presents the work of four emerging, Chicago-based cartoonists and animators: Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, on view from January 8 t…
‘Groundbreaking’ Paperless Eco Comics Announced by Mohawk Media
LONDON.- British publisher Mohawk Media has announced Eco Comics, a range of environmentally-friendly, paperless comic books. The first digital comic book from the Eco Comics range available now to download or view online is Heroic High, an adventure s…
R. Crumb, Daughter Look at Life in "Crazy Artist"
By: Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Robert Crumb and his daughter Sophie may lovingly squabble about the life they have shared, but they can agree on one thing: the underground scene that allowed the elder Crumb to become a comic book cult hero …
Rare 1939 Batman Comic Sells for Nearly $500k at Heritage Auctions in Dallas
DALLAS (AP).- A rare comic book an 84-year-old California man bought for a dime when he was a teen has been sold in Texas for $492,937. The copy of Detective Comics No. 27 featured the debut of “The Batman.” Robert Irwin says he bought the May 1939 …
Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Colorado to Art Damage
FORT COLLINS (AP).- A Montana woman accused of taking a crowbar to controversial artwork for religious reasons pleaded not guilty Friday in Colorado. Kathleen Folden, 56, a truck driver and grandmother from Kalispell, Mont., declined to comment during …