Tag Archives: Joe Simon

COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (21 October 2024)

This week, a tribute to the classic archetype of the pulpy mystery man!

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (2 September 2024)

Here is this week’s reminder that comic book covers can be pretty… bizarre?

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (29 July 2024)

A reminder that comic book covers can be awesome… and also very, very goofy:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (1 January 2024)

Have a Gotham 2024! In this year’s weekly reminders that comics can be awesome, I’m going back to spotlighting ten covers every Monday. To get things started, I’ve chosen covers from very different genres (including from peaks of the medium … Continue reading

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On Joe Simon’s covers for Dick Tracy

This week we’re back to spotlighting comic book covers in Gotham Calling. I’m quite fascinated by the work of Joe Simon on the covers of Dick Tracy back in the early 1950s, when monthly issues collected Chester Gould’s iconic daily … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (28 November 2022)

And here is another reminder that old copaganda comic book covers can be awesome, Headline Comics edition:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (20 June 2022)

This week’s reminder that comics can be awesome is a tribute to packed, wonderfully busy covers:

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (9 May 2022)

Comics and cinema seem more intertwined than ever. Even setting aside the countless film adaptations of superhero franchises, the coolest movies in recent times have evoked many of the magical features of comic books. Thematically, last year’s The Worst Person … Continue reading

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COMICS CAN BE AWESOME (17 January 2022)

Your ‘true crime’ reminder that comic book covers can be awesome:

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2020’s books of the year – part 2

If you read last week’s post, you know I’m doing a countdown of the most Gotham Calling books of 2020. Enjoy!   16. UNDONE BY BLOOD Collected as Undone by Blood or The Shadow of a Wanted Man, the first … Continue reading

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