Toth’s contributions to the comics medium are not widely known among casual fans. He did much of his comics work outside the current mainstream of superhero comics, concentrating instead on such subjects as hot rod racing, romance, horror, and action-adventure. His stint on Disney’s Zorro is highly regarded and has been reprinted in trade paperback form several times and there are two volumes of The Alex Toth Reader published by Pure Imagination which focuses on his work for Standard and Western publishing, but otherwise the bulk of his shorter stories can be difficult to locate. Nonetheless, he is widely regarded as an “artist’s artist” and is often lumped among such greats as Will Eisner and Jack Kirby as one of the undisputed masters of the sequential storytelling medium.
Make sure to check out his featured section of graphic novels at Hijinx in our Fiction and Literature section.
Children of the Atom
Maybe it's something in the water, but Hijinx customers have started developing strange new powers and abilities. Gaze in awe at the Levinson brothers, who will be starting soon at an upscale prep school for gifted youngsters in the Westchester NY area.
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Due to the holiday, comics will be shipping on Thursday July 10th instead of Wednesday. Don't let the terrorists win. Instead, go celebrate independence by blowing stuff up yourself!
I saw this video on the Flowing Data blog (the best data visualization blog I know of) that tries to put the costs of the Iraq war into terms we can understand. Check it out, but be prepared to get angry.
This is kind of like the old Chuck E Cheese Pizza Time Theatre band, except no puppets and the instruments actually play themselves. Plus, they're called The Trons which is way cool.
Over on the Colour Lover's Blog they did a little breakdown of the color palettes of various DCU characters. This mixes my love of comics with my love of color theory, which I'll freely admit is a fairly nerdish combo.
ok, it's not really a robot, as it's really tele-operated by a surgeon, but the cool thing is that the piece of paper is smaller than the diameter of a penny!
