Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
The Vigilante Rides Again
I do not know about you but I am always curious about how an artist feels about his own career. Was he happy with what he has accomplished or disappointed that he did not received deserved recognition? Even when an artist does not discuss these issues directly what he has to say is often revealing [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Simon and Kirby Blog’s Third Anniversary
It is true; my first post was on March 17, 2006. I have a tool that counts the number of visits and hits (I am not sure what the difference is between the two) and provides information about incoming links. Frankly the statistics are just of mild interest to me since my goals for blogging [...]
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
“The Best of Simon and Kirby”, It Is Real
Dust jacket front cover for “The Best of Simon and Kirby”
I have a busy schedule and so I have to budget my time. I had set aside a period last Saturday for doing some scans for this week’s blog post. That was the plan. That is until Steve Saffel dropped by that day with an [...]
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
The Little Shop of Horrors, Chapter 1, Expanding Their Fields
(October 1950 to February 1951, Black Magic #1 – #3)
In the early part of 1950 Simon and Kirby had established their studio and were producing comics with a relative small but generally talented group of artists. Their most important, perhaps only, product were two monthly romance titles, Young Romance and Young Love. I do not [...]
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
The Art of Romance, Chapter 12, A Smaller Studio
(August – October 1950: Young Romance #24 – #26, Young Love #12 – #14)
Number of Romance Titles 1947 – 1950 (the period covered in this chapter shaded in blue)
The trend of the decreasing number of romance titles that was found in the period covered in the previous chapter has continued. As far as can be [...]
