Death is For Sale…
[Note: I added content to this post late in the day yesterday — take another look-see if all you saw on the 21st was the Lee Elias cover art — SRB]
Lee Elias — one of my favorite Kubert School teachers back in 1976-78 — drew this tasty Pre-Code horror comic cover for Harvey, later of squeaky-clean Casper, Spooky, Wendy, Little Dot, etc. fame.
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[Added four hours later:]
Sorry about the late patch — it’s been lightning and storms off and on all day here, disrupting much computer work. Three other things I meant to post/mention:
* I’ve posted the latest updates to Joe Citro‘s and my Vermont Monster Guide tour schedule
Cat Garza and I will be at CCS all day for the White River Junction ‘Glory Days’ celebration on Saturday, September 12th, where you’ll also be able to shop till you drop with the CCSers — tons of new comics and comix by CCSers, art, t-shirts, seconds from the Schulz Library collection and more!
Joe and I are also beginning to pull together the first few New England bookstore venues, to be announced soon on the Vermont Monster Guide page. Keep your eyes on the schedule there!
* I’m back to blogging over at the Schulz Library blog.
It’s a blog worth checking out weekly, as a lot of folks worth reading post there regularly, including James Sturm, Robyn Chapman, CCS alumni like Chuck Forsman, CCS students like Jen Vaughn, and many, many others from the community.
Always good eye-candy and reading, and always turning you on to comics, graphic novels, cartoonists and books you may love, have forgotten or never heard of.
* Among the work I’ve been keeping nose-to-the-grindstone for during these dog days of August has been proofing the galleys on my short story “Copper” which will soon see print in editor Christopher Golden‘s upcoming anthology The New Dead.
Above is the opening page of the proofs I just shipped out to Subterranean Press on Monday — their special limited signed hardcover edition promises to be a beauty!
That illo above on the title page is by Glenn Chadbourne — it’ll be sweet to be in a book with Glenn, both as a contributing writer and as a contributing artist to the same tome.
Well, the mass-market St. Martin’s Press edition is scheduled for February 2010 release.
Somehow, I still don’t feel like I’ve got a ‘leg up’ on the coming year… much less next month!
You know, I just had a “well-duh” moment. Remember Frank Robbins the writer-artist? His work reminds of Mr. Elias’.
They don’t draw covers like that anymore. Where have all of the ballsy artists gone?
Harvey?! That’s hilarious!
I’ve read interviews with people who worked for Harvey in the later years–such interviews always lead to how the family members running the company hated one another. Very strange.
Of all of the comics companies that died off, I miss Harvey the most. They were the last company that published comics solely for little girls and boys.
Alas.
that is a tasty cover. O.o
Actually, Harvey Comics was publishing titles like Casper The Friendly Ghost at the same time as the horror books. Like any good comic book publisher, Harvey was smart and produced titles representing different genres and audience tastes. After the AXE of the Comics Code Authority fell, the “scary” titles disappeared liked last week’s trash, and Harvey expanded the kiddie book line (Richie Rich alone had more titles than Batman and Spider-Man put together) and capitalized on their innocent, non-offensive comic books designed for the younger audience.
But, oh boy, those pre-code Harvey titles are something else!