Frank Frazetta’s ‘Buck Rogers Portfolio’ From 1975
Frank Frazetta is most famous as a painter of fantasy art, because he is arguably the greatest of all time. But for the first decade-plus of his career, he worked in comics -- drawing, not painting.
That Famous ‘Akira Slide:’ Watch the Supercut
Watch the Teaser for ‘Mad God,’ a Stop-Motion Epic 30 Years in the Making
Why Will Elder Was the Essential Genius of Mad Magazine [14 Images]
Dazzling Georges Bess Drawings at Philippe Labaune in NYC
Watch the ‘Matrix Resurrections’ Trailer
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Issue #309 Cover A (Kai Carpenter)
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Issue #308 Cover A (Ken Kelly)
Issue #308 Cover B (Kai Carpenter)
From the Forge
The John Waters Interview (Heavy Metal, November 1984)
"I've tried everything but necrophilia and coprophagy, and I like kissing the best. And that sort of sums it up. I don't talk about my personal life in interviews."
Jack Kirby’s ‘Thundarr the Barbarian’ Production Art
If you watched Saturday morning cartoons back in the early '80s, you encountered "Thundarr the Barbarian." Of course "Thundarr" was Jack Kirby -- how could it not be Jack Kirby?
The Brothers Hildebrandt’s Atlantis Calendar from 1982, an Untold Story
Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, twin illustrators also known as the Brothers Hildebrandt, became art heroes for their late-'70s J.R.R. Tolkien calendars. But what was up with the 1982 Atlantis Calendar?
What Was ‘Gundaar’? A Mysterious Moebius Movie We’ll Never See
Have you seen Moebius’ “Gundaar”? When legendary comics artist Jean “Moebius” Giraud died in 2012, he left behind arguably the all-time most impressive body of sequential storytelling. Not only did Moebius create elegant imagery that influenced other artists and filmmakers, he did so for a long time, in various formats, with different collaborators. We published […]
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