Christmas Monkey Covers - December 5

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. In addition, Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB, because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

So to celebrate this first Sunday in December, I present you with a Christmas cover featuring a monkey! Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.

The cover is from 1945's Famous Funnies #125. The cover by an unknown artist shows Santa delivering toys to a monkey who has been very good this year!

(A big YACB thanks to Gordon of Blog THIS, Pal! for bringing this cover to my attention!)

Just 20 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

Christmas Covers - December 4

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.



Today's cover is from 1960's Dell Four Color #1154, featuring "Santa Claus Funnies." The cover by an unknown artist shows Santa trying an alternate method of transportation on Christmas Eve. The way the snow is blowing, I sure hope that Santa has AAA!



Just 21 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

Library Update

Thanks to everyone who has weighed in about what comics and GNs we should be getting for the library. No one gave me just twenty, but that's okay; as I suspected, there are some good things that I would have missed on my own. If you haven't yet had a chance, you can still submit your lists, either in the comments section here or in the original post.



It occurs to me that it would help to know which comics & GNs we already have at the library. This link will take you into our online catalog and show the things we have. This covers all the libraries at the U; we are getting many of the items at the Hatcher Graduate Library transferred up here to the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library. Most of the items we already have were gather haphazardly, either as needed for a class, purchased for the Juvenile collection, or donated. I know that there are still some things in the pipeline that aren't yet in the catalog.



We should soon have the funds in place to start buying, which is the fun part! When things start arriving, maybe I'll post weekly updates here as to what comes in that's new.

Christmas Covers - December 3

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.



Today's cover is from 1982's Superman #369. The cover by Rich Buckler & Dick Giordano features Superman in a Yule Duel with the purple Parasite, illustrating Cary Bates's story "Superman's Last Christmas."



Just 22 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

Thinking Alike

Scott over at Polite Dissent is also doing a Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar, and Greg at Raw Feed is too.



It'll be interesting to see if we duplicate at all. Unlikely, as I've identified about 200 different potential covers. (Although Greg--darn him--has already beat me to the punch on the Killer Snowmen from Strange Adventures!) Alas, none of them is a Christmas cover with a monkey. Can anyone help me on that score?

"The Story of Her Life"

Our campus's student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, has a two-page spread in today's Weekend section profiling cartoonist/professor Phoebe Gloeckner:

“But there is that little-girl voice in you thinking, ‘You wicked child!’ I drew things like that ever since I was very small, for my classmates, and I think I did get in trouble,” says Gloeckner. As a young artist, her work went virtually unseen by family and friends; when her work first got published, she assumed that no one read the underground comic books in which her art appeared.

You can read the online version here.



(It was Prof. Gloeckner's recent appointment to the faculty here that was the primary motivator for us starting our comic & graphic novel collection here at the library.)

Christmas Covers - December 2

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version from GCD.



Today's cover is from Dell's 1953 Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #9. The cover by Paul Murry & Norm McGary features Donald, Goofy, Mickey and the rest of the gang peeking out from a Christmas tree.



Just 23 more 'get-ups' until Santa!