#comichistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #comichistory, aggregated by home.social.
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The history of the Comics Code Authority. How censorship shaped the industry for decades. Learn the history at startercomicbooks.net. #ComicsCodeAuthority #Censorship #ComicHistory #StarterComicBooksNet #GoldenAge #SilverAge #IndustryStandards Which comic creator would be on your dream creative team? https://startercomicbooks.net/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Superman's Canadian Roots
Superman, the iconic superhero, has Canadian origins! Co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and based Metropolis partly on Toronto and the Daily Planet newspaper on the Toronto Daily Star where he worked as a paperboy. These Canadian connections influenced many visual elements of the Superman comics when they first appeared in 1938. 🦸♂️
🇨🇦 #Canada #Superman #ComicHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joe-shuster
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One last "Calvin and Hobbes"-related memory:
In 2014, Bill Watterson emerged from hibernation to ghost-draw one week of "Pearls Before Swine" strips.
I was pretty certain I had figured out the gimmick on the first day … but I couldn’t convince the St. Louis Post-Dispatch features department to report on it.
So I did it myself:
https://www.joshrenaud.com/family/archives/2014/06/the-cartooning-beat.html#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #newspapers #localnews #news #stlouispostdispatch #pearlsbeforeswine
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I wasn't an ANSI artist in the 1990s, but more recently I've been creating animations in the Atari ST's obscure "IGS" format.
I'm most proud of an original "Calvin and Hobbes" animation I released last year that shows what might have happened if Calvin had owned _two_ cardboard boxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_riObN32o&t=347s
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #igs #instantgraphicsandsound #atarist #atari #textmode
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ANSI artist Eerie is the subject of my latest in-depth #retrocomputing profile:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and-inspector-dangerfuck/Eerie drew some amazing Calvin portraits at the end of 1994 — even though he had grown up influenced more by the tradition of French and Belgian bandes dessinées.
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #ansiart #ansi #bbs #textmode
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"Calvin and Hobbes" was a major influence and subject for ANSI artists of the 1990s.
https://16colo.rs/tags/content/calvin
The characters were so funny, so well-drawn, so iconic. And the timing: the strip's 1985-95 run coincided almost exactly with the rise and fall of BBSing.
Calvin's irreverence was just icing for us teens.
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory #ansiart #ansi #bbs #textmode
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"It's a magical world ..."
🐯 👦 ❄️ 🛷
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the final "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip by Bill Watterson.
It would be hard to overstate how much this strip meant to teenagers like me growing up during its 1985-95 run.
I'm proud that my own kids can quote it today — and at length!
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#calvinandhobbes #comics #webcomics #1990s #history #comichistory
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Superman's Canadian Roots
Superman, the iconic superhero, has Canadian origins! Co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and based Metropolis partly on Toronto and the Daily Planet newspaper on the Toronto Daily Star where he worked as a paperboy. These Canadian connections influenced many visual elements of the Superman comics when they first appeared in 1938. 🦸♂️
🇨🇦 #Canada #Superman #ComicHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joe-shuster
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Superman's Canadian Roots
Superman, the iconic superhero, has Canadian origins! Co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and based Metropolis partly on Toronto and the Daily Planet newspaper on the Toronto Daily Star where he worked as a paperboy. These Canadian connections influenced many visual elements of the Superman comics when they first appeared in 1938. 🦸♂️
🇨🇦 #Canada #Superman #ComicHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joe-shuster
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ICYMI: Marvel Characters That Weren’t Always Marvel https://popgeeks.com/marvel-characters-that-werent-always-marvel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Marvel #MarvelCharacters #Superheroes #ComicHistory #PatsyWalker
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Superman's Canadian Roots
Superman, the iconic superhero, has Canadian origins! Co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and based Metropolis partly on Toronto and the Daily Planet newspaper on the Toronto Daily Star where he worked as a paperboy. These Canadian connections influenced many visual elements of the Superman comics when they first appeared in 1938. 🦸♂️
🇨🇦 #Canada #Superman #ComicHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joe-shuster
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At KansasFest a few weeks ago, I shared the story of cartoonist Ya'akov Kirschen's quixotic quest to break into the computer industry.
Based on years of research, this presentation has it all: old video games, comics, Jewish education, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5VwsyZXZGs
#apple #apple2forever #gamedev #videogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #history #jewish #comicHistory #cartoon
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Superman's Canadian Roots
Superman, the iconic superhero, has Canadian origins! Co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and based Metropolis partly on Toronto and the Daily Planet newspaper on the Toronto Daily Star where he worked as a paperboy. These Canadian connections influenced many visual elements of the Superman comics when they first appeared in 1938. 🦸♂️
🇨🇦 #Canada #Superman #ComicHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joe-shuster
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The Origins of Superman's Canadian Roots
Superman, the iconic superhero, has Canadian origins! Co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and based Metropolis partly on Toronto and the Daily Planet newspaper on the Toronto Daily Star where he worked as a paperboy. These Canadian connections influenced many visual elements of the Superman comics when they first appeared in 1938. 🦸♂️
🇨🇦 #Canada #Superman #ComicHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joe-shuster
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D.D. Degg highlights some of the comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2024 release. Always a good idea to order them from your local comic shop or independent book store. #comics #comicHistory #books
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/09/15/hey-kids-comics-falls-back-falls-books/?utm_source=mast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newslink -
It's another "walk through memory lane" day and today, while talking to folks about some ancient* Puerto Rican fandom history that I personally was involved with, I got to mentioning Zahíra: The Chosen Flame by José Trinidad.
A manga-influenced local comic in Puerto Rico, it was a fantasy story about a wandering elf, the Zahíra in question, and the journey she had to make to defend the world from the evil lord who ruled it. More or less, is what I remember--aside from the influences it wore on its heart from series like Slayers and Lodoss War.
It only lasted two issues because the creator couldn't take much more risk on working on it while also balancing his real life job. Something had to give and he chose financial stability. In a place like Puerto Rico, only very few get to balance comics and money well--emphasis on "very few." It was a shame, and to be frank, a tragedy. This IMO had the stylings of becoming a fantasy classic for local comics.
Maybe someday I will get my own copies out of storage and scan them to share. In the meantime, I recommend reading the first comic that someone graciously posted on Reddit. Being published in Puerto Rico, it's obviously in Spanish, so bear that in mind:
1/2: https://old.reddit.com/r/BORICUA/comments/1do8a62/puerto_rican_manga_collection_zahira_the_chosen/
2/2: https://new.reddit.com/r/BORICUA/comments/1do8i90/puerto_rican_manga_collection_zahira_the_chosen/
InkStain Comics, the publisher: https://web.archive.org/web/20060114222531/http://inkstaincomics.com/ along with an interview (in Spanish): https://web.archive.org/web/20041209010836/http://www.inkstaincomics.com/zahira/artistainfo/entrevista/dic04/index.htm
Trinidad's devianart: https://www.deviantart.com/dakuna/gallery/all
*2000s, but that's ancient both by the standards of me and by people 20 yrs younger than me.
#comics #comic #PuertoRico #PuertoRicanComics #comicsHistory #comicHistory #manga #Zahira
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One of the most interesting discoveries we made while reading #Beano for the #BowieBookClub last month was that #DennistheMenace debuted nearly simultaneously in the UK and US but as totally different little terrors.
#themoreyouknow
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It's the year 2300CE and the entire internet has been occupied by BuyNLarge.
The entire internet?
No. One small instance of indomitable...
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Looking at some single-panel dailies today -- here's Schulz's original art for the Peanuts strip originally published 12/30/1989
#comics #comic #comicstrips #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #Snoopy #CharlesSchulz #comicart #comichistory
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Speaking of history, per the inventory software I'm using, this #ComicBook is the *first* #FrankMiller published #MarvelComics work! #ComicHistory
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Original art for Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was originally published on 12/9/1981. What beautiful scribbling! I love Sally's careful consideration in panel two and her arm motion in the third panel.
#peanuts #CharlesSchulz #Schulz100 #Snoopy #CharlieBrown #comic #comics #comichistory #comicshistory #museum #museumwork #research
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Published on this day, 12/5/1984, Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
#comics #comicstrips #comichistory #Peanuts #Snoopy #CharlesSchulz #comic
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Künstler des Monats: Winsor McCay
Ich habe mir ja vorgenommen, jeden Monat einen neuen (alten) Künstler oder Illustrator vorzustellen, dessen Bilder meine Blogposts Kritzelheftseiten dann zieren, wenn für sie keine eigenen Bilder vorhanden sind. Für den Monat März habe ich mir Winsor McCay ausgesucht. http://blog.schockwellenreiter.de/2021/03/2021030102.html #WinsorMcCay #Comic #ComicHistory #LittleNemo
