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Yet another batch of Cuentos de Abuelito covers have materialized on the interwebs, including some of the oldest issues ever produced and most of which we're seeing on Crom for the first time! These covers come to us courtesy of a recent eBay listing by seller Mexmorabilia but they've already been scooped up...$900 US for the lot!And I quote: "19 issues of this very rare and hard to find mexican Conan series published from November 13 1952 to August 13 1953"...While I'm at it, here's some new La Reina de la Costa Negra cover scans as well, several of which are also making their first appearance on Crom! These particular covers were recent additions over on El Baul del Comic! Thanks El Baul!Once again, "Cuentos" was published by Corporacion Editorial Mexicana S.A (CEMSA) in 1952-53, "La Reina" by Editiones Mexicanas Asocidas (EMA) in 1958-59, and then again by JOMA in 1965-66. Related material can be found in a number of places around here for those interested!And here's some other little tidbits of interest, a random smattering of other "La Reina" material that I've come across of late that also hasn't been seen around here before... For good measure I leave you with this, A Cuentos/La Reina group shot courtesy of one Mikus and posted by Terry Allen over at the REH Comics yahoo group. Unfortunately this is as big as it gets, but it provides evidence that there's a lot more blond Conan to be seen!

Ya know, Groove-ophiles, sometimes we wanna read comics just for fun. Not be be blown away, not to have our minds boggled, but just to get away and go to a simple place where right is right, wrong is wrong, and talented folks make feel-good comics. The best way Ol' Groove knows to accomplish this is to pick up a good ol' Groovy Age mag like Detective Comics #430 (October 1972). Backing up the usual Batman blockbuster was this Elongated Man short by E. Nelson Bridwell and Dick Giordano. "The Haunted Studio Mystery" has no intentions of pushing envelopes or re-defining how we look at comics--and that's why Ol' Groove digs it! Bet you'll dig it, too!

Heroes are always 'on call,' right? We ask Kyle Higgins, James Tynion IV, Jimmy Palmiotti, John Layman, Jim McCann, Chris Burnham, Franco and Art Baltazar.

Sometimes My Grudge Against Shazam! works out in my favor.

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Tweet When the MoCCA Awards of Excellence were announced, an art exhibit of the winners was promised, and the opening is tonight. The winners turn out to have been pretty excellent, so I suspect this will be a fine showing. The Society of Illustrators is excited to announce the inaugural MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence.  This awards recognizes the most outstanding work on view at the festival.   This year’s winners are Kim Ku (Ghost Hotel), Andrea Tsurumi (Andrew Jackson Throws a Punch), Jane Mai (Sunday in the Park with Boys), Gregory Benton (B+F), Kenan Rubenstein (Last Train to Old Town), Nick Offerman, and Honorable Mention to Simon Arizpe (OHaBEAR).  Artists winning this award will have their work exhibited in the second floor MoCCA gallery at the Society of Illustrators from May 21 – July 6, 2013.  A Happy Hour and Opening Reception will take place on May 22nd from 6-10pm at the Society of Illustrators.    This year’s judges included Karen Berger, Gary Groth, Nora Krug, David Mazzucchelli, and Paul Pope.  All materials chosen in the jury’s initial survey will be acquired by Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library for a newly-established MoCCA Arts Festival collection, to be expanded annually. The Society of Illustrators is located at 128 East 63rd Street. #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} #social-essentials {margin: 0 0 10px 0;}

1.  No problem! 2.  It’s interesting that even in the early 1960s the guy knew he was going to flak for it.  Of course, women have been reading the Flash book from the very beginning — several wrote letters in the Silver Age, and I have a female friend who used to buy the title during the Silver and Bronze Age.  She had a letter published during the death of the Top storyline in 1976. 3.  That’d be one of the more interesting Flash issues we’d ever see…. 4.   He apparently doesn’t always use those fast feet. 5.  ….so I Googled his name, and there’s a 66-year old guy by that name in Illinois.   6.  I’d like to think that age and society’s changing values eventually made him regret the letter….but you never know. 7.  I can’t criticize art fails too much because I draw at the level of a ten year old.  But you’d think more professional artists would use references or something. 8.  He brings new meaning to “Silent but deadly” (although that was not silent.  And seriously, they should have used a different sound effect.) 9.  Any wider and he’ll unhinge his jaw! 10.  It’s a great scene :D

Posted On Today at 11:46:10 pm EDT by Nose Norton [Reply] [Quote] [New] No one ever lives happily ever after in superhero comics. Has anything crazy happened to Happy Hogan and Pepper Potts in the last 20 years? They're the only people I can think of who went on to better things when they went into limbo.

A month or so ago, Apple demanded that French comics distributor Izneo, backed by the major French comic publishing houses, remove over a thousand titles over content issues. Shortly afterwards, Brian K Vaughn stated the same had happened over Saga. It wasn’t true it seems, it was ComiXology trying to abide by Apple;’s guidelines. Saga was restored to the service, as were other titles such as Black Kiss II, Sex and Herogasm. Today, ComiXology have announced that 56 titles have been withdrawn from the ComiXology app on iOS devices in accordance with Apple guidelines. Including some that had recent been re-approved. They include manga titles such as Again Tomorrow, Image books such as Black Kiss II, Sex, Omaha The Cat Dancer, Angry Youth Comix, The Story Of O and The Boys: Herogasm. Saga, specifically the issue featuring ejaculating multiple penises in a small frame or two, is not included in the list. ComiXology make it easy for readers to order them off their website however instead – which can then be synched to someone’s iOS device. Which may mean a few more steps, but it does also mean that Apple don;t get their cut – and ComiXology and the publisher get a bigger one. And Black Kiss II, Sex And Herogasm Are Gone From ComiXology On iOS Again. But Saga Stays…