The Price of Being Spiderman: Then & Now

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2 Million Dollar Comic

A copy of the first issue of Action Comics, in which Superman makes his debut, has sold for a record US$2.16m. The comic, graded a 9.0 for its condition, was auctioned online with a reserve price of US$900,000.
The name of the seller was not disclosed but there have been claims it was Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage.

'When we broke the record in 2010 by selling the Action Comics No 1, graded at 8.5, for US$1.5m, I truly believed that this was a record that would stand for many years to come,' said Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com, the site which hosted the auction, and Metropolis Collectibles.

See our post about the previous Action Comics #1 record breaker, and our post about Detective Comics #27 (Batman's debut) which broke that record a week later!!

If Superman & Batman had a baby...

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Disney Digital Comic Book Tron Uses HTML5

Disney Digital Books has taken the next step in comic viewing with their latest incarnation of the Tron merchandise line. Using the power of HTML5, they have created a beautiful interactive comic strip that has background music, flashing lights as well as dynamic movement between each frame...I personally think that they are onto a winner here! I'm sure there will be more coming very soon....

“It’s truly an interactive environment people don’t expect to see on a website,” said Ken Disbennett, art director for Vectorform, who worked closely on the project. “When a character is smashing through a glass wall, you can see and experience the glass particles shattering. We couldn’t have achieved this the way we did without the hardware acceleration in Internet Explorer 9 or the use of a plug-in.”

Source: VJYourself

Million Dollar Comic (Part 2)

Less than a week after an Action Comics #1 set the world record for the highest price ever paid on a comic, a 1939 Detective Comics #27 in which Batman makes his debut has sold at auction for US$1,075,500, breaking the record again! The copy has a quality grade of 8, same as the Action Comics #1.


Read our post on the Action Comics sale HERE.

Million Dollar Comic

A copy of the first comic to feature Superman has been sold on the internet for a record breaking US$1 million (£646,000).
The 1938 edition of Action Comics No 1 - which originally sold for 10 cents - was snapped up within minutes of the issue being put on sale. The sale smashes the previous record price for a comic book of US$317,200 (£205,000) in 2009, which was also a copy of Action Comics #1. It was in poorer condition however, with a quality grade of 6 - Fine.
The copy sold yesterday has a grade of 8.0 - Very Fine, of which there are only two in the world.

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Johnny Hicklenton

Last night, I watched an incredible documentary entitled, "Here's Johnny" on More4 about the life and times of the super talented artist, Johnny Hicklenton. It chronicles the past 7 years of his life as he has been a Multiple Sclerosis sufferer since 2000. Watching this incredible artist struggle and come to terms with the disease, whilst still drawing 10-12 hours per day was a truly inspiring and touching piece of cinematography. He is best known for his artwork during the 90's of Britain's 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. (In my opinion, he is definitely one of the best British illustrative talents ever)
What is also amazing, is the fact that he continues to focus on bringing multiple sclerosis as a disease to the public's attention in order to help it's sufferers fight for better treatment and research from the medical community. Long live Johnny and his truly inspiring story!







Selected Works:
2000AD
Thargs Future Shocks x 2
Nemesis the Warlock - books 7 & 9
Rogue Trooper Annual
Slaine The King - unofficial pencils
Judge Dredd

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE
Judge Dredd
Heavy Metal Dredd
Judge Edwina's Strange Cases
Pandora
Mean Machine
Mean Machine - Poster
Blood of Satanus
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Finn x 2
Ryan - Black ManBurden

USA
Dark Horse
Zombie World series

There's a good little interview with him HERE, which was done in 2006.

Humor me

More from the legendary Perry Bible Fellowship...

Tatsuyuki Tanaka - Cannabis Works

Tatsuyuki Tanaka has been around for ages, (he even worked on the computer graphics for the original Akira anime) and yet, little is known about his works. I bought this amazing hardback book, entitled 'Cannabis Works' whilst living in Japan, 4 years ago and I still pick it up to this day and can re-immerse myself into his amazing illustrations. Apparently, the style of drawing is known as 'Superflat'.




Superflat is a postmodern art movement, founded by the artist Takashi Murakami, which is influenced by manga and anime. It is also the name of a 2001 art exhibition, curated by Murakami, that toured West Hollywood, Minneapolis and Seattle.


The term is used by Murakami to refer to various flattened forms in Japanese graphic art, animation, pop culture and fine arts, as well as the "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture."


A self-proclaimed art movement, it was a successful piece of niche marketing, a branded art phenomenon designed for Western audiences.


Tatsuyuki also made this classic Nike animated ad featuring Lebron James

If you want to see the whole book, scanned for your viewing pleasure, then please go HERE.

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The Shorlks strike again

More phun from the amazing Perry Bible Fellowship...

See more at pbfcomics.com

If Dogs Could Talk

This is a response to PH's Mittens post from ealier today.....Made me laugh when I opened my inbox this morning!

Mittens

I used to be a BIG anti-cat person until I had to live with two of them and slowly found that they aren't so bad, they are still no where near as cool as dogs obviously but, oh well... 

In Australia , cats aren't so popular generally.. they stray from home, go feral and eat a lot of rare native birds which pisses people off. Many people have no problem shooting a cat that has strayed onto their property. . on occasion, the Australian army have have been used to shoot cats in the Aussie bush which have gone feral... which, would probably be a better way to go then poor Mittens here.

For more cartoon humor from the Perry Bible Fellowship check out http://pbfcomics.com

Graffiti Tourist: Palestine

I think everyone's seen the work that Banksy and JR have done in Palestine, so I went looking for other artists.
The first 2 pictures below are by a Palestinian artist called Naji Al-Ali, who was assassinated in London in 1987. Please read the story HERE.

The piece below is by Arofish.

Tomorrow I will be visiting Puerto Rico.

RANT by Dkoda : New Comic Strip

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