Tag: Jim Steranko
James Romberger Talks About Steranko: The Self-Created Man
James Romberger is best known as the comics artist behind books like 7 Miles a Second, The Late Child and Other Animals, Post York, 2020 Visions and other books. He’s contributed to World War...
This weekend’s Big Apple brings comics history to programming with Royer, Fradon and more
By James Romberger and Heidi MacDonald
This weekend, New Yorkers will get a chance to meet some comics industry legends when the Big Apple Con hits Penn Plaza. Although there are some notable media guests...
ACO and Robinson prime Nick Fury Jr. For his First-Ever ongoing series with Steranko-Influenced...
Marvel has just announced via a Newsarama interview that author James Robinson (Fantastic Four) and artist ACO (Midnighter) are working on a brand new Nick Fury, Jr. ongoing solo series titled simply, Nick Fury...
Don’t expect Nick Spencer and Jim Steranko to collaborate ay time soon
Today is Voting Day! In 24 hours or so our long national hellection ENDS and a new era of constant paranoia, hate and fear mongering from one side or the other begins for the next four...
Steranko’s Ages of Comics: naming our eras
In addition to popularizing "Sterankoing," artist Jim Steranko is quite a tweeter. Every Sunday night he holds a regular talk, and last night he started identifying The Ages of Comics. Steranko, best known for...
On the scene: Phoenix Comicon 2015
Phoenix Comicon took place on Thursday, May 28 through Sunday, May 31. Apparently, preview night and Sunday were the best days. Honestly, I felt like I was going to Emerald City or San Diego...
On the Scene with Smaller Cons—Wizard World and Big Wow
by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
Comic con season is upon us. It’s time for lining up, hoping to get that autograph and waiting to get into that must see panel. If it’s a murder of crows and...
SDCC ’14: Listen to all the best panels AND the Eisner Awards
Jamie Coville has done it again, recording some of the most fascinating panels from Comic-Con just passed, AND the 2014 Eisner Awards to boot. In fact so many of these were on our own...
Jim Steranko on Art, Experimentation, and FROGS [Interview]
Amongst the many pieces featured in the relaunched A1 Annual this year is FROGS from Jim Steranko. Originally published in COMIXSCENE #3 in April 1973, FROGS is a experiment in storytelling, in which Steranko sets out 48...
Review: Dash Shaw’s New School is Pretty “Artsy” Stuff
I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.
Steranko-ing: the early years
Thanks to Sarrah Horrocks, this undated but 80s ish photo of Jim Steranko and Jack Kirby shows that Steranko-ing has a long, proud tradition.
Steranko has recently gained a whole new audience with his...
The latest craze is: Sterankoing
At a convention once something happened which haunted all who witnessed it. It was so powerful that a Tumblr had to be launched. It was calledSterankoing.
In case you are unaware, comics legend Jim...