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Writer-artist-creator of the long-running indie comic-book series, Rob Hanes Adventures • 2018 Inkpot Award recipient
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More #comicsthatmademe —though produced decades before I was born, Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates and his syndicated adventure strip contemporaries enthralled and inspired me. I first came across the strip in books on the history of comics found in my local public library... (1/3)

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The Return Of Midtown Comics And UCS To Distributing Comics?

In issue no. 16, Rob Hanes Adventures took a slight detour with a romance-superhero mashup fantasy tale called "The Real Julianne Love!" (Originally published in the Love in Tights anthology series.) Happy Valentine's Day! 💘 For more info and back issues, visit wcgcomics.com!

Started this miniseries yesterday, my first re-read since I got it off the stands 41 years ago (?!). X-Men And Micronauts 1 (Jan 1984) cover by Butch Guice and Bob Wiacek. Pretty fun, fast-paced, action-packed issue. Claremont and Mantlo co-writing this series is a pretty interesting teamup.

Out today!

Marv by Marco Renna! craigzablo.com/?p=36334

After Sgt. Rock and other war comics, the comics character I collected regularly as a kid was Batman in the Detective Comics, Batman and Brave and the Bold. I came into comics at the start of the Bronze Age, so the underrated Jim Aparo to me was the definitive Batman artist. #comicsthatmademe

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Another page (without lettering or dialogue) from the next issue of Rob Hanes Adventures (#26), coming this summer! All back issues and more information about the series available at wcgcomics.com.

Our Army at War (Sgt. Rock) no. 267 (Apr 1974), story by Robert Kanigher, cover by Joe Kubert, story art by John Severin—the comic book that made me a comic book collector! Bought off a spinner rack at my local drugstore, in the days before comic book stores were a thing. #comicsthatmademe

The Collected Will Eisner’s John Law by Will Eisner and Gary Chaloner is coming! craigzablo.com/?p=37730

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Hey, that's me! 😁. It's a crisp 30 minutes, where I talk about my series, Rob Hanes Adventures, and its development, and what's upcoming—including a way overdue third volume compilation that collects issues 9-12. Thanks to @heroicpublishing.bsky.social for a great conversation. #comics #indiecomics

Work in progress—in issue 26 of Rob Hanes Adventures, Rob gets dragged into the billionaire space race when he’s sent on assignment to an orbiting space station under construction. A giant leap for the series or have I just jumped the shark? 😄 Coming later this year! #wip #comics wcgcomics.com

BOOSTER GOLD 😎 ✨

Met actor Tim Matheson at a screening of Animal House, who was there for a signing of his new memoir, and introduced the film. Someone tried to catfish me on another social media platform purporting to be him after I posted that I had gotten tickets, so he inscribed his book, “Don’t DM me!” lol.

As an assistant on Will Eisner's Spirit, cartoonist Jules Feiffer often signed Eisner's name on the strip—so at a book signing in the '90s, I asked him to inscribe Eisner's name in a book of his I purchased at a signing. He was game and gave me this memorable inscription/souvenir!

Bill Mauldin (1963)

Today on this date, Jan. 19, 1947 (also a Sunday!) cartoonist Milton Caniff's first Sunday page for Steve Canyon dropped! The dailies launched Jan. 13, two weeks after his last Terry and the Pirates strip on Dec. 29, 1946. But Steve didn't make his grand entrance into the strip until this Sunday..

It's sad to think that an image like this needs to be posted to remind people about right and wrong, especially when it's on our very doorstep, but, hey, here we are. Captain America #1 (1941) by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon