The Comic Company: Presenting…
Looking back, I guess it took a lot of guts for three kids from Norristown to decide that we wanted to start a comic book company especially considering that we were all still attending college and had...
View ArticleThe Comic Company:Duckwork
Enter at your own risk An ominous, orange glow cast its pall across South Philadelphia in the spring of 1981. It was a sign plastered with fluorescent tempera paint on a thirteenth floor window of...
View ArticleThe Comic Company:The Studio
Gerry Giovinco and Bill Cucinotta Superman has the Fortress of Solitude. Batman has the Bat Cave. Hugh Hefner has Playboy Mansion. (That lucky bastard…) The great heroes always had a secret lair, a...
View ArticleThe Comic Company:First Impressions
Business Card Side 1 When we finally became serious about publishing comic books under the Comico imprint we realized that we were going to have to actually sell our comics and generate substantial...
View ArticleThe Comic Company: In The Black
Anyone who has been reading this blog over the last couple of months knows that it is intended to be a trip down memory lane focusing on the accomplishments of Comico the Comic Company and its...
View ArticleThe Gutter – Turkey Day
OMG it is already Thanksgiving! Where does the year go? 2011 is right around the corner and soon we will all be looking back examining this past year that has seen a lot of dramatic shifts in the...
View ArticleEncouraging Comics – A Sketch in Time
PCA now UARTS My freshman year at the Philadelphia College of Art in 1979 was a bit of a surprise. It was the first time that I had experienced the artistic predjudice towards comics. The common notion...
View ArticleGet Down America!
Howard The Duck button Waaaaagh!!! What can I say? Ever since I first laid eyes on a Howard the Duck comic book I was smitten with ducks. I’m not sure why, but I think that what Steve Gerber did with...
View ArticleMini Comics to the Packaging Revolution
Monkey & Bird…a Love Story by Joe Williams and Tina Garceau is AVAILABLE NOW!!! The highlight of my week was receiving a copy of Joe Williams and Tina Garceau’s printed mini comic, Monkey and Bird,...
View ArticleHalloween Treat
Since this is my last blog before Halloween I thought it would be fun to take a jaunt down the old, haunted Memory Lane starting with an illustration I did of a baby Bela Lugosi for a project as a...
View ArticleComics on Campus
This past week I had the pleasure of sitting in on a free lecture “Comics and the Art of Visual Communication” by legendary comic creator and theorist, Scott McCloud www.scottmccloud.com who was out...
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