Christmas Covers - December 6

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.

Today's cover is Spider-Man's Tangled Web #21. Artists Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone draw Spider-man with visions of something sweeter than sugar plums dancing through his head!

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 19 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(And don't forget Polite Dissent's comic cover advent calendar; Love Manga's advent calendar manga give-away; or my own CBLDF Fund Drive.)

Second Annual CBLDF Fund Drive

It's December, so it's time for YACB's Second Annual Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) Fund Drive.

It's styled on the matching-funds pledge drives that my local NPR station does (but without interrupting Car Talk six times in an hour...)

For the period between now and December 24, if 10 people join as CBLDF members at the $25 level (or higher) I will donate $250 to CBLDF.

(To donate, go to the CBLDF Website, click on the link across the top that says 'Membership', the scroll down to the join link.)

Just email me the confirmation email that you get from CBLDF when you make your donation. I'll post periodic updates until the goal has been met. (Please mention in your email if you'd prefer to remain anonymous.)

From the CBLDF site: "The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community."

Update - December 23 We've reached our goal of 10 contributors. Thanks to everyone who participated!

New Library Comics: Week of November 28, 2005

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


Emerson, Hunt. The big book of everything /London : Knockabout Comics, c1983.

Feuchtenberger, Anke, 1963- Mutterkuchen /Berlin : Jochen Enterprises, c1995.

Lecroart, Etienne, 1960- Ratatouille /Paris : Editions du Seuil, c2000.

Mr. Stocca. Les jours etrangers /Belgrade : REX / Samizdat B92, 2002.

Panter, Gary. Satiroplastic : [sketchbook facsimile] /Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the USA and abroad by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005- v. 1

Christmas Covers - December 5

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.

Today's cover is from 1996: Artists Dan DeCarlo & Mike Sagara give us the cover for the Christmas-themed Shanda the Panda #14.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


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.

Ty Templeton's cover to The Batman and Robin Adventures #3 features The Riddler setting a Christmas Tree on fire--doesn't he know that you're not supposed to use real candles?

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 21 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

Other Christmas Covers

Over at Polite Dissent, Scott is doing a Comic Book Advent Calendar of his own, but his is more clever than mine, as he's using the issue number of each chosen comic to count down to December 25.

And I'm sure you're stopping in each day to Love Manga, where David & Immelda are using their advent calendar as a contest to give away a free manga volume every day until Christmas. Now that's getting in the holiday spirit!

Be sure to come back here to YACB on Monday as we debut a 'contest' of sorts of our own: our 2nd annual CBLDF fund drive.

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.

Today's cover is from 1949: Marge's Little Lulu #18 features Lulu giving Santa a helping hand getting back up the chimney (perhaps he ate too many cookies?)

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 22 more 'get-ups' until Santa!