Category Archives: ART OF BATMAN COMICS

The return of Batman’s loud kicks in the head

Posted on February 29, 2024 by I.M. Baytor

This is Gotham Calling’s 700th post! I like to mark these occasions with something special and it occurred to me that it’s been a while since my last post celebrating the Caped Crusader’s tendency to acrobatically kick – or sometimes … Continue reading →

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Ornate panel borders by Quique Alcatena

Posted on April 5, 2023 by I.M. Baytor

One of the things I enjoy doing at Gotham Calling is to quickly zoom in on specific skills and quirks of the many awesome artists of Batman comics, from Don Newton and Tim Levins to Graham Nolan and Frank Robbins. … Continue reading →

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3 opening splashes by Frank Robbins

Posted on October 19, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

Gotham Calling started out as a blog specifically about Batman comics and, every once in a while, I enjoy going back to its origins. So, here is a post about three amazing title splash pages from the 1970s – an … Continue reading →

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Tim Sale (1956-2022)

Posted on June 17, 2022 by I.M. Baytor

First Neal Adams, now Tim Sale. I’ve been meaning to write about Tim Sale’s muscular, stylized artwork for quite a while, but I haven’t gotten around to it and today won’t be the day… But I will say that I … Continue reading →

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6 quirky Batmobile designs by Kelley Jones

Posted on October 14, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

Last week, I wrote about Norm Breyfogle’s knack for constantly coming up with new designs for the Batmobile, suggesting that the Dark Knight had an extensive car collection with vehicles of various shapes and sizes. Given the way Kelley Jones’ … Continue reading →

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Norm Breyfogle’s fluid Batman

Posted on October 7, 2021 by I.M. Baytor

  To say that Norm Breyfogle is my favorite Batman artist doesn’t do Breyfogle justice – along with Marshall Rogers’, his artwork is my platonic ideal of what a Batman comic looks like. It’s the first visual that comes to … Continue reading →

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Another 50 glass-shattering entrances

Posted on September 14, 2020 by I.M. Baytor

Tomorrow is Gotham Calling’s sixth anniversary! It’s also been almost a year since I broadened the blog’s focus beyond Batman comics, so it makes sense to look back at how things have evolved since then… It turned out to be … Continue reading →

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On Batman’s title (and logo) pages

Posted on April 30, 2020 by I.M. Baytor

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spotlighting one of the trademarks of The Spirit, namely the way Will Eisner and later creators kept adjusting that series’ logo to fit the title pages, ingeniously inserting new designs into each … Continue reading →

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3 symbolic backgrounds by Graham Nolan

Posted on February 6, 2020 by I.M. Baytor

When I wrote about Chuck Dixon’s grounded, no-frills approach to storytelling a while back, I briefly mentioned his productive collaborations with a couple of artists whose style also fits this description: Tom Lyle (who died shortly after that post) and … Continue reading →

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Yep, it’s another 50 kicks in the head

Posted on September 16, 2019 by I.M. Baytor

Yesterday was Gotham Calling’s fifth anniversary. I tend to celebrate these by paying tribute to Batman’s longstanding tradition of noisily kicking his opponents in the head (and mostly having a pretty good time doing it), a tradition that often involves … Continue reading →

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