The Ephemerist
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Archive for November, 2007
Rob Liefeld Can’t Draw
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Word !
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Over on scans_daily, they’re holding Calvin & Hobbes week. This message to C&H creator Bill Waterson is from webcomic Least I Could Do, and I completely second that !
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Marvel Comics is coming !
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This ad for Marvel Mystery Comics was drawn by Carl Burgos, and ran in Marvel Stories in may 1040.
(thanks, Golden Age Comic Book Stories)
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Le Genial Barbizet
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Surprisingly smooth
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The news stand at the center of the world
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
I like this. A lot. The colors may be a bit to real and too gritty, but I still like it.
(from Ain’t It Cool News, still my favorite guilty geekboy pleasure)
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Casper fights plaque !
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
From Polite Dissent comes a nice little PSA from Harvey comics, featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost. I’ve never really quite been hep to the whole Casper rationale. What’s he saying anyway : “Ghosts are bad, except this one ?” That needs a bit more spin, methinks.
It is a good ad, though.
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I Can Has Video
Monday, November 26th, 2007From Boing Boing : the history of Laughing Out Loud Cats, as blogged about earlier.
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55 Years Of Donald Duck Magazine
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Donald Duck, the Dutch Disney comics weekly, celebrated its 55th anniversary earlier (well, it’s just as good an anniversary as any, isn’t it ?). On that occasion, they actually buried the cover of their festive issue with an avalanche of older issues (al the while promoting their fancy but expensive collector’s folders). And a quite nice Droste effect, if you can spot it.
(and don’t worry, the normal back cover feature ran again the next week 
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