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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A Preview Of An Upcoming One Woman Art Show Reception...
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Comic Book Artists

                                        

Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents... 

A Preview Of An Upcoming One Woman Art Show Reception... Featuring:

Barbara Marker! 

Which Will Be Held At the Tierrasanta Public Library (San Diego, CA) Courtesy of BarbaraMarkerArtist.com

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Top Photo:  The San Diego Public Library, Tierrasanta Branch, where the October 15th Reception will be held!
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Bottom Video:  A preview video of just one of the walls of Barbara Marker's artwork on display.  You are invited to view the artwork before, during, and after the reception! The room that contains the artwork will present these between September 8, 2011 through December 23, 2011. The regular Library hours are: Tuesday & Wednesday12:30 to 8:00. Thursday & Friday 9:30 to 5:30. Saturday 9:30 to 2:30. Closed Sunday and Monday!
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Far Left Top Photo:  Photo of Barbara Marker, Artist!
  

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3513:

Back on July 1st of this year, I posted one of my 'Spotlight on...' blogs on a person I met briefly at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con.  Her name is Barbara Marker, and she has been involved in comics & fantasy artwork since the 1980s.
 
Before that period of time I had met her husband, Paul Tallerday at a different locale, and until earlier this year, did not realize that they were a married couple.  Since then I've helped them start a Facebook Fan Page for BarbaraMarkerArtist.com and have been posting publicity items about Barbara's current works and appearances.
 
I also videotaped Barbara at the most recent 2011 San Diego Comic Con International, (as seen here at my YouTube channel), and helped them set up a Facebook event page for this One Woman Art Show that is being held in the San Diego Metro Area.
 
The Art Show has already started, but the Reception isn't until Saturday, October 15th. Here's the details:
  
The Art is on display for you to view in person between September 8, 2011 through December 23, 2011. The regular Library hours are: Tuesday & Wednesday12:30 to 8:00. Thursday & Friday 9:30 to 5:30. Saturday 9:30 to 2:30. Closed Sunday and Monday. I will be posting several of the photos I took at the special photo album at my Facebook Fan Page titled: 'Barbara Marker Artist - A One Woman Art Show of Fantasy Art'.
 
The RECEPTION is: October 15, 2011 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm - Where you can meet Barbara Marker in person!
 
WHERE?
At the San Diego Public Library, Tierrasanta Branch
4985 La Cuenta Drive
San Diego, CA 92124
 
I believe that is about all the info that you would need to stop by and view the artwork on display at the Public Library, and / or attend the Reception.
 
Should you have any questions, feel free to ask Barbara via the event page, or the fan page links provided above.
 
Tina and I are looking forward to attending the Reception on Saturday, October 15th, when Barbara and Paul will be bringing several of the original art pieces that the prints were duplicated from to display at that time..
 
See you there?!
 
~Michael D Hamersky On Comics


My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and the archived blog posts, now over 3,512 total posts in number!  I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

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~ Michael D Hamersky 

Note: My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items.  Possibly even copies of the item that was reviewed here today...!

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:   ComicBooksCircus.com.

If it isn't available in my online 'Local Comic Book Shop, (LCBS), then you may be able find it in my Amazon affiiate link, as seen here:  Comics & Graphic Novels at Amazon!

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The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!!  (Note:  I don't list my email address here, due to 'spambots' gathering it and 'spamming' me. 

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to have sent me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages in my network already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' for myself so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 
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Posted by makeitsomarketing at 12:01 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:41 AM PDT
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Monday, September 26, 2011
The 2011 Shel Dorf Award For Comics Blogger Of The Year Goes To...
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

The 2011 Shel Dorf Award For Comics Blogger Of The Year Goes To...

Heidi MacDonald of The Beat!

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Top Left Photo: The Shel Dorf Awards Logo!
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Above Top Photo:  The Shel Dorf Award For '2011 Comic Blogger of the Year' Goes To: Heidi MacDonald - The Beat!  Congrats to Heidi!
  

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3512:

I haven't seen a full list of the 2011 Shel Dorf Awards winners as of 6:15 AM this Monday morning when this blog goes to press...

However I did see on 'The Beat' that the winner of the category for 'Comics Blogger of the Year' was Heidi MacDonald of 'The Beat'.

Here is what was posted there just a short while ago, plus the photo used at the top right of this blog post:

"The Shel Dorf awards were given out this weekend at the Detroit Fanfare con, and while the complete winner list has not been posted anywhere we could find, we know we won for Best Comics Blogger! Woot! The competition was tough and to have prevailed is really humbling and gratifying. We don’t know who exactly voted on these wards, but whoever did — thank you so much."

Photo of award by Lauren Sankovich.

Congrats to Heidi from Michael D Hamersky 'On Comics'!

Other nominees in the category (with links to the blogs) for this year were:

COMIC BLOGGER OF THE YEAR
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Stefan Blitz (Forces of Geek)
* Michael Hamersky (Michael D. Hamersky On Comics)
* Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool News)
* Heidi MacDonald (The Beat)
* Various Contributors (Robot 6)

As you can tell from the above, those are all 'heavy hitters' in this industry!

I appreciate those that nominated me for this category, and all those that voted for me in the voting process. It was an honor to be listed among the 'Top 5' in this category which covered the world of comics bloggers!

Again, congrats to Heidi MacDonald of 'The Beat'!

I'm sure that the other winners will be announced soon at the Facebook Fan Pages for both the 'Detroit Fanfare' & the 'Shel Dorf Awards', so please check out those links for the full list of the winners of each category after they are listed!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!


NOTE FROM THE BLOGGER:

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,512 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,559 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 
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Updated: Monday, September 26, 2011 6:53 AM PDT
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
My Take On: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV Show & Comics!
Mood:  rushed
Topic: Comic Book History

                                        

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV Show & The Comics!

From The 1964 - 1968 Period

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Top Left Photo: The Front Cover to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Comic Book #1 from Gold Key Comics!.
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Above Top Photo:  The Front Cover to the Season 1 DVD.
  

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3511:

Sorry for the lateness in this 'Weekend Edition' of my Blog... I had it ready to be posted, when the laptop blipped out on me, and because I didn't have a current backup when writing it... I had to re-write it...!

Last night I rented the Season 1 DVD of 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' TV show that ran for the 1964-65 TV Season.

I did this to introduce it to my youngest son, Vinnie, who other than interfiling the comic books of this TV series in inventory backstock to sell; had not viewed any episodes of this TV Series.

We watched the first three episodes to get an idea of the show, and episode #23 'The Brain-Killer Affair', because it had Yvonne Craig in it, whom I've met recently at a comic con!

Anyways... The TV show ran for four seasons... And its background history can be found at this Wikipedia entry for the show.  The show was originally aired from September 22, 1964 to January 15th of 1968. The list of episodes can be found at this link.

Season one from 1964-65 is shown at this link as to what the competition aired against it was.  I was my son's age at this time, and in a one TV set household.  So instead of this show, my folks had on either 'The Red Skelton Show' that also ran for an hour on CBS, or 'McHales Navy' / 'The Tycoon' on ABC.

Season two from 1965-66 was where NBC moved it to a different night, to Fridays.  Which is kind of like what is done today, moving shows to Friday that have a 'cult' type status, but low viewership.  The airtime was 10PM which was better for me, because it wasn't a 'school night', and only 'The Jimmy Dean Show' was on ABC, and 'Slattery's People' on CBS.

Season three from 1966-67 was terrible in that the show was moved up earlier for air time.  We watched 'The Green Hornet' & 'Time Tunnel' on ABC, which overan UNCLEs time slot!  Re-run time during the summer would be 'The Wild Wild West' & 'Hogan's Heroes' on CBS.

Season four from 1967-68 got no better! The show was moved to Monday nights.  Your household would have to be watching 'The Monkees' on NBC to continue on with the UNCLE show that was next. Otherwise your household wouldn't turn the channels half-way through 'Gunsmoke' on CBS or 'Cowboy In Africa' on ABC.  This is probably why this was the last season for the UNCLE Show.

I'm not going to get into talking about 'The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.' TV Show or the Gold Key Comic Books.  That would be a topic for another time.

I am going to mention a high school buddy of mine, David Heilmann, who was really into this 'secret agent' stuff at the time.  It was due to him that I seeked out the TV Show and espisodes that I missed a little later.  He had a great collection of items from this time period, but I've lost touch with him since my first getting married and moving to the LA Metro Area.

Speaking of comic books...

Here's a link to the Gold Key series of 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' comic books that ran from May of 1965 through April of 1969. They are hard to find in high grade today... I usually don't have any of these comics in stock, at my online comic book shop, ComicBooksCircus.com, but you can always check for sure.

I've never see the 1966 Man From UNCLE Annual from World Distributors in the UK, but here is a link when someone uploads it.

The Man From UNCLE 1987 comic book series from Entertainment Publishing had eleven issues.  I sometimes have copies of these.

The 1993 2 issue mini-series from Millennium Publications is easier to find.  Also when available is listed in my online comic book shop.

As far as I can tell, those are the only four comic book series or one-shots on the TV Show.

Here's Vinnie's thoughts on the TV Show, after viewing only four episodes...

Vinnie:  Last night, my dad, stepmom Tina, and I started watching the 1964 TV show, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." season one.

It came out around the time when James Bond was first getting popular in the United States, as they both featured secret agents. We watched the first three episodes, and I learned the basic storyline of the show. I haven't seen any of these episodes or read the comics before, so I essentially had no knowledge of it whatsoever.

We started watching it, and I realized it was in black and white. It didn't surprise me considering the release date of the show. The stories each episode told were interesting, and I do believe that these were a lot better than today's entertainment on TV, however I don't watch much anyways. The acting was also relatively good. They all played their roles well, and acted how I figured their characters personalities would be. I really enjoyed the show as it was something different for me. Of course, with the show being 47 years old, many other people may have watched these before me. As a matter of fact, my dad started watching this show at the same age that I am today!

Thanks, Vinnie for your thoughts above!  I enjoy introducing you to some of my favorite TV Shows and their Comics adaptations via DVD sets like this one!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!


NOTE FROM THE BLOGGER:

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,511 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,558 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 
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Updated: Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:04 PM PDT
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
MyTake On: *PPFSZT! #31 From Main Enterprises
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Books - New

                                        

*PPFSZT! #31

An Anthology Comic Book

Published by Main Enterprises!

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Above Top Photo:  The Front Cover to *PPFSZT! #31.
  

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3510:

Back in Blog #3378, I review blogged *PPFST! #29, which was my first introduction to this title.  The comic book had been discontinued several years ago, and the publisher, Jim Main, was just bringing back the title after a seven year hiatus with issue #28, which I had not seen.

I've not seen issue #30 either, since review blogging #29, which I gave a VF/NM comic book grade. So I was interested to see what had transpired since the last issue I had read, as anthologies have to be one of the hardest comics genres to publish!

So what's this comic book anthology about?  Here's a description:

"A gorgeous full color cover by Brad Foster kicks off the latest issue of Jim Main's long-running comic, fiction, illustration publication. Also included is a superb full color back cover by Troy Boyle and John Larter, B&W interior illustartions by Kevin Duncan, Brad Foster and Christopher Durant. Strips this issue by Brien Wayne Powell(Magnet Man), Nate Corrigan(Death Comics and Some Comics About Some Stuff), Steve Keeter, Rock Baker and Jeff Austin(The Return of The Mysticist), George Leon(Super Surfer Dudes), Al and Rick Limacher(The Wild Zone), Robert W. Brunelle(Mr. Brunelle Explains It All), Simon Mackie(Pinky Gets A Stamp From Outer Space and The Coffee House)), Steve Shipley(The Death Of Digital), Henry Gustavson(Bill The Cockroach), Dan Burke(The League of Annoying Heroes) and Michael Anthony Carroll(Chibi Ninja Epic). 56 pages of enjoyment for 7.00 postpaid."

What were my thoughts on this comic book?

Front Cover - By Brad Foster illustrated circa 2007.  A PUP-BOT Theatre scene. Not for sure what this was all about, nor why it was chosen as the front cover artwork... But it kind of goes with the oversized title log of *PPFSZT!

Inside Front Cover - By Kevin Duncan.  A more recent pin up page (dated 2011), which got my imagination going when looking at it...

Splash Page - Used as a Table of Contents Page, which is always good to have right away for an 'anthology comic'! Especially as some comics creators only use initials for their signature.

Page 2 - The Editor Speaks! - Always a good feature to have, so that the reader of the comic can figure out what the Editor was thinking by including certain stories, what may be coming up in a future issue, etc.

With so many features in this issue, I'm only going to hi-light some of those that stood out personally for me.

Page 6 - Death Comics, by Nate Corrigan. A good six panel page. Who says you can't make your point on just one page?!

Page 7 -11 - The Return of the Mysticist, by Steve Keeter, Rock Baker and Jeff Austin.  This was a feature I really enjoyed!  I'm glad it was placed near the front of the comic.

Page 8 - The U.F.O. Checklist.  Yeah, it's an ad page... But it presents to readers of this comic that there are others creating indie comics and sharing cross exposure by printing this page in their comics.  Good to see this spirit of collaboration!

Page 21 - 30 - The Wild Zone, by Al and Rick Limacher.  Kind of 'out there', but of interest to those  that are into this 'genre' of storytelling.

Page 33 - 34 - Pinky gets a Stamp from Outer-Space', by Simon Mackie. Funny two-pager!

Page 35 - 38 - Timely storyline... As comics are going more and more digital...Here's a story on 'Death Of Digital'!  by Steve Shipley.

Page 43 - 48 - The League of Annoying Heroes, by Dan Burke. Good illustrations with a storyline that is fun to read.

Page 51 - 52- The letters pages (*PPFSZT!-ED OFF!!!).  What I miss about modern comics... Very few have letters pages...

Back Cover - By Troy Boyle and John Larter... Good way to end the issue, with a good sized pinup!

This issue is also a pretty well organized 'anthology' comic book, just like the issue #29 that I recently reviewed.  There seemed to be something for just about everyone in this issue... Which is hard to do!  I did notice that KA-Blamm didn't print this issue... ComiXpress did.  I would have to pull out my earlier issue to see if there was any printing differences... But offhand I didn't see anything stand out different, production wise from the printer. 

I would have to say that Jim Main, Editor & Publisher is on the right track with this series. 

Thus I'm giving this comic book a VERY FINE / NEAR MINT (VF/NM) 9.0 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grade.

You can see this comic book for sale at Main Enterprises ecrater online store.

Main Enterprises is renovating its Facebook presence, so I'll hold off on posting a link here at this time...

Thanks again to Jim Main of Main Enterprises for bringing this latest issue of *PPFSZT! to my attention!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!


NOTE FROM THE BLOGGER:

My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,510 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,558 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button! 

And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

~ Michael D Hamersky

Note:  My online 'Local' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!

If I have it... You can find it 'Under The Big Top Of Comics' at:  

http://www.ComicBooksCircus.com/ 

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written for the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up differently, sorry about that!

The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  As of Monday, June 27th, 2011, I'll be using my new laptop, where the default resolution is 'higher', so there may be some temporary glitches until I am used to the new resolution.

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:

Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page! 
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Updated: Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:23 AM PDT
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
My Take On: Lunatic Fringe #1 by Grasiela Rodriguez
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Comic Books - New

                                        

Lunatic Fringe #1

By Grasiela Rodriguez

Published by Not Your Friend Comic Books!

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Top Left Photo: The Front Cover of Lunatic Fringe #1 from Not Your Friend Comic Books And Animation.
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Above Top Photo:  Grasiela Rodriguez at the 2011 So Cal Comic Con, holding the copy that she presented to Michael D Hamersky, blogger. Her next appearance will be at the APE in San Francisco, both 211.
  

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3509:

I first 'met' Grasiela Rodriguez on Facebook, when I was contacting her and Javier Hernandez regarding the 2010 San Gabriel Valley Comic Book Fest (SGVCBF), that I was looking at to 'cover' via this blog.

Grasiela was the primary con promoter contact of the SGVCBF for that year's show, and was gracious in meeting myself and my wife Tina at the front door of the show when we arrived.

For more info and photos on that show, please see this link to the special photo album at my Facebook fan page, 2010 San Gabriel Valley Comic Book Festival. As I link to it, I see that I haven't uploaded all of the pics taken... As I was using / saving the rest for blogs, some of which were used for blog #3239. Plus individual blogs on several of the comics creators.

At the same time I was at that show I was given several comics by indie comics creators who were exhibiting there.  Including Rafael Navarro, Geo Brawn IV, Javier Hernandez, Jim Lujan, Michael Aushenker, John Narcomey, and more!

Since that great show was cancelled for this year 2011, due the death of one of the persons who sponsored it, I didn't think I'd get to see Grasiela until later on in 2011.

So I was pleased to see Grasiela driving down to attend the recent 2011 So Cal Comic Con in Oceanside, (as seen in the top right photo of this blog). She presented me with a copy of her latest work, 'Lunatic Fringe' #1,  so I asked her to pose with it for review purposes.

So what's this comic book about?  Here's a description:

"It started with a boy and a girl...and a heart and a game...

The life of a "normal" girl intertwines in a tale of love/hate and redemption."

Lunatic Fringe #1 TM and © Not Your Friend Comic Books. All rights reserved.

Written and Illustrated by Grasiela Rodriguez

Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 24 - POD $4.99 Cover Price

What were my thoughts on this comic book?

Front Cover - Very striking! The black, pink, red, & white colors really accentuate the front cover!  With the tag line 'We All Know You're Out There!'...  Well, I just had to turn the page right away!

Inside Front Cover - The acknowledgements page include personal thank yous.  Plus it tells that this issue is the story of Sarah Starr and that it was inspired by Tom Petty's "Woman In Love".

Splash Page - Not used as a splash page, but rather as page 1, so the story starts right away...

I have seen Grasiela's artwork before, but not in a sequential format such as this.  The art work reminds me of good underground comix artwork, and the lettering flows within the frames, without covering up the art.

The colors used in this issue blend together in some panels, and then in other panels is very striking... Making a strong emphasis!

The storyline is illustrated in a 'groovy' kind of style, which reminds me of both the underground comix style I mentioned earlier, plus a 'taste' of what Marvel Comics tried to do with 'My Love', 'Our Love Story', and other romance comics of the late Silver Age of Comics, when they had Jim Steranko, John Buscema, John Romita, Gene Colan, and others jump start the last gasp of romance comics.

I found this issue #1 to be refreshing and one that should 'click' with today's comic reading audience looking for alternative comics!

I'm giving this comic book a VERY FINE / NEAR MINT (VF/NM) 9.0 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grade.

You can see it and other works by Grasiela Rodriguez at her web site ProjectUnit83.com.

You can also see some of the animation mentioned in the comic book at her own YouTube Channel:  NotYourFriendComics!

Here is where you can purchase this comic book, if you aren't lucky enough to see Grasiela set up at a comic con:  Indy Planet - an online comic book shop.

For where you can interact with the publisher, Not My Friend Comic Books, be sure to 'LIKE' their Facebook Fan Page!

Oh... For those of you going to APE in San Francisco... Grasiela will be at booth 211, along with Jim Lujan.  Stop by and say 'hello' to both!

Thanks again to Grasiela for bringing this first issue of 'Lunatic Fringe' to my attention!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!


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