MORRISON MONDAYS! By BILL MORRISON St. Valentine’s Day is coming up this week, so I was thinking rather than give my wife a sappy card, I might leave a back issue of Simpsons Comics #103 on her pillow! My cover art is an homage to DC’s Leave It to Binky #2 from 1948, and makes a perfect Valentine! Of course, after she divorces me she’ll get half of ALL my comics! Y’know what? I’m gonna stick with Hallmark. Happy (early) Valentine’s Day, everyone! — Want more MORRISON MONDAYS? Come back next week! Want a commission? See below! — MORE — The Magnificent — and Outrageous — 1960s DC COMICS FOLDEES-SIMPSONS Mash-Up. Click here. — What If JOHN ROMITA Stayed at DC to Work on BATMAN? Click here. — Eisner winner BILL MORRISON has been working in comics and publishing since 1993 when he co-founded Bongo Entertainment with Matt Groening, Cindy Vance and Steve Vance. At Bongo, and later as Executive Editor of Mad Magazine, he parodied the comics images he loved as a kid every chance he got. Not much has changed. Bill is on Instagram (@atomicbattery) and Facebook (Bill Morrison/Atomic Battery Studios), and regularly takes commissions and sells published art through 4C...
The Warren years… By PETER BOSCH Like many other baby boomers, I discovered the works of Frank Frazetta (born February 9, 1928) through his covers for the Warren magazines in the 1960s. Those paintings for Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella and Blazing Combat were incredible to my young eyes. They made buying the magazine an absolute “YES!” decision just for that. Then came the realization he was also painting covers for paperback reprints of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard novels — and EC comics! And then posters of those cover paintings became my next collectible — and then movie posters (covered here in my previous appreciation of his work). So, let’s take the WABAC Machine to the 1960s and 1970s and revisit 13 of those great Warren issues that started my Frazetta frenzy: — MORE — NEAL ADAMS AND FRANK FRAZETTA: Creative Powerhouses Forever in Competition. Click here. — PAUL KUPPERBERG: My 13 Favorite FRANK FRAZETTA 1960s ACE Paperback Covers. Click here. — 13th Dimension contributor-at-large PETER BOSCH’s first book, American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s – From the Small Screen to the Printed Page, was published by TwoMorrows. (You can buy it here.) A sequel, American Movie Comic Books: 1930s-1970s — From the Silver Screen to the Printed Page, is due in 2025. (You can pre-order here.) Peter has written articles and conducted celebrity interviews for various magazines and newspapers. He lives in...
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The late artist was born 76 years ago, on Feb. 6, 1949…
