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Original Dan DeCarlo art from Jughead Jones Digest #26, 1983. Click to enlarge.

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An original Apple Mary from its first year, drawn by Dale Conner, written by Allen Saunders and created by Martha Orr. Apple Mary eventually became Mary Worth.

What If Marvel Comics' John Romita had worked for DC Comics? Click to enlarge

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A Rex Maxon original Tarzan comic from 1934. Maxon took over Tarzan from Hal Foster in 1929 and illustrated it until 1947. Click to enlarge.

An original Pogo by Walt Kelly from 1968. Click to enlarge.

Ed Wheelan's Minute Movies, which satirized popular movies.

An original Barney Google from 1954. In their heyday, comics had an enormous impact on American culture. It would be no exaggeration to say that half the people in the country read this comic strip every day. Charles Schulz's nickname, Sparky, came from Barney Google's horse Sparkplug. The strip added "googly eyes," "doodle bug," "horsefeathers," "heebie-jeebies" and of course, "googol," "

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I don't know the story behind this, but this was selling on ebay as an unfinished work of awesome cartoonist Dik Browne.Click to Supersize

I'm working up some inking samples. These are my inks over the pencils of Cary Nord, from Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars Tales #17, Ghosts of Hoth. Inked with my Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. Click to Supersize

Archie Comics has posted the original art to an old story featuring Archie's cousin, Andy Andrews. Link

Sculptor Adrian Tranquilli addresses the vulnerable side of superheroes. More

A panel by Reed Crandall (pencils) and George Evans (inks) from Classics Illustrated #168. (1969)

Awesome cover rough by the inimitable Marie Severin. I can't even make my finished art look as good as her roughs. Although I'm a little curious about the elephant-eared guy... Read the rest of this post

An original page from the Free Comic Book Day offering of Scott Pilgrim. By Brian Lee O'Malley. Click to Supersize.

Drawn by Jim Raymond. Click to Supersize.

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Milton Caniff drew this Terry and the Pirates strip in 1945, just a couple years before he left the strip. Caniff left at the peak of Terry's popularity because he had no ownership in the strip. He said Good-bye to the Chicago Tribune and created Steve Canyon for King Features, with the promise of ownership and an annual salary of $100,000 for the first five years. Click to Supersize

When I first saw this original Carol Day comic by David Wright, I didn't think much about it. Then I took a closer look and was amazed by the brush techniques used. It's impossible to look at these and not get pulled in by the detail of the art in that first panel. Zoom in and check out the amazing brushwork. These go beyond textbook inking techniques. It's amazing to think that a comic strip