Michael D Hamersky On Comics Comments That... It's Starting To Feel Like Christmas...!  With Favorite Films & Comics!      - Photo this column: The Front Cover To Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer #7 from DC Comics 1956-57! - Top Photo Left Column:  A Scene From Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer TV film from 1964... One of Tina's favorites Christmas films!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3566:

It's starting to feel like Christmas around here... Which is hard to do sometimes living in the San Diego area, with no snow!

But Tina LoSasso, Vinnie, and I watched the colorized version of my favorite Christmas film, "It's a Wonderful Life" on Saturday night, and then we went to my folks on Sunday for our 'Christmas' celebration, as Vinnie will be with his mother during the Christmas Day weekend.

Of course, Tina has her own favorite Christmas film, a 1964 film titled:  'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer', which a scene from it is shown in the top left of this blog post!   Plus I started off the text here with an ad from 1964 advertising it!

Here is the Wikipedia entry as to the background on the film, which seems to be shown every year also on TV!

Around our house, it isn't Christmas until we have seen both of those films, plus Tina's other favorite... 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'!  Tina can almost recite the entire dialogue of that one... line by line!

Of course, it wouldn't be a comic book blog without a reference to comic books... So I'm including one of the dozen Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Comics from DC Comics that were published from 1950 - 1962, as seen here!

 I have to get ready to make a drive to see my Great Uncle Howard, who thankfully has been discharged from the hospital after a second surgery, and has been transferred to a rehab center. So this is a short blog post this morning.

But I wanted to share with you on how we prepare for Christmas around here... Of course with comic books as part of the preparations!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to You!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Announces A New Revised Timeline Look For His... Facebook Profile Page!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3565:

This is just a quick 'weekend edition' of my blog to show those of you that are not my Facebook Friends about the 'new look' that my Facebook personal profile page is sporting as of this morning!

I had already been an 'early adopter' of the upcoming 'Timelines' look that Facebook is going to before the end of the 2011 year.

However, I decided to emphasize two things on my own personal page a little differently than what I started out with on Thursday. 

First is the larger photo, called the 'cover photo'.  I decided to use the 1973 photo of myself at the 1973 San Diego Comic Con, that was held at the Sheraton Hotel on Harbor Island in San Diego.

The inset 'profile pic' or 'avatar' is now a photo taken of me at the December 2011 Nuke the Fridge Con, where I had my first book signing held for 'Gotham City 14 Miles', (GC14M).

So almost a 40 years span at the top of my Facebook personal page!

Which shows my two passions:  Being an online (& occasional on site at a con) comic book dealer, plus my love for comics / tv history, which in this case was combined for my chapter in the GC14M book!

Usually I'm not an 'early adopter', but in this case I found that the two column online newspaper look that 'Timelines' is sporting was something I wanted to jump right into!

Now I realize that my own Facebook 'fan' page will probably need to be 'upgraded' also... But I haven't seen any announcements on any upcoming changes there to that format.  

But you can never tell... As Facebook changed the 'group pages' format earlier in 2011, and now the 'profile pages' have been changed!  Just a matter of time before the 'fan / brand pages' are revised too!

Anyways, I'm limited to the number of Facebook Friends I can have, with the number of fan pages that I also 'Like'.  So I wanted to share this 'new look'with all of you that can't add to my 'friends list'.

Take a look at your own Facebook profile and start playing with it, as you have seven days to complete your revision before Facebook publishes it to the world!

Yeah, I know the holidays season is upon us... But hey, this is a cool holiday gift for us to play with !

Talking about pages...

Here's the link to my Facebook profile page, the fan page, and the group page - which is affiliated to the Facebook Comic Con Group.

(In addition, as a sidenote:  This is the link to my Hamersky / Hamerski / Hammersky Family Newsletter Facebook Fan Page, which usually has nothing to do with comics or pop culture, but could be of interest.)

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Is Now Looking Forward To Viewing... The Avengers (2012) Film! To Be Released Friday, May 4th of 2012 And... Attending FCBD on Saturday, May 5th, the Next Day!      - - Left Column / Top Photo:  Quite honestly... The Avengers 'teaser' poster didn't do much for me... - This Column / Top Photo: Now THAT'S more like it! Definitely seeing the Big Guns of Marvel Comics all lined up in a film poster gets me excited! (L-R) The Mighty Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, & Captain America! - This Column / Bottom Photo: I've always had a liking for Hawkeye... Hoping that film includes him a bit more than just his cameo in the 'Thor' film from 2011! (L-R) Nick Fury, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and the villain who brings them altogether to form The Mighty Avengers... Loki!  - Now I'm excited for Friday, May 4th of 2012... Plus the next day is Saturday, May 5th, the 2012 Free Comic Book Day event... 'Nuff Said!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3564:

My Thanks to Beth Accomando, of Cinema Junkie, for starting off my day right!

Last night, I posted blog #3563 on the passing of Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America for Marvel Comics, and posted it as usual on my Facebook pages, both 'personal profile' and my 'fan' page.  That was sad news...

Overnight, Beth had clicked the 'Like' option on my wall post about the blog, and in return I went in to see what she had been posting the last few days on her own Facebook fan / brand page.

There I found that she had posted the brand new film posters for The Avengers, the Marvel Film that is being released on May 4th of 2012.  Which naturally includes Captain America! So although the co-creator of Captain America has passed away this week, his co-creation continues on for even more people to see next year. A 'living legacy' if you will.

I'm glad that Joe Simon, who turned 98 years old two months ago, was able to see the Captain America Film earlier this Summer. To me, that is the 'Best' Superhero film done yet! I normally only give a Near Mint (NM) 9.4 out of a possible 10.0 rating for comics or comic book movies, but for the Cap film, I had to give it a Near Mint / Mint (NM/M) 9.8! Here's the link to blog #3473 with Vinnie's / Tina's / and my review.

Until these two new posters... I hadn't gotten excited about the film... Due to the changes in Director, etc.... I haven't been expecting much, quite honestly.  For more on the background of the upcoming film, please see the Wikipedia entry.

But I now feel what Martin Goodman, founder of Timely / Atlas / Marvel Comics must have felt, after coming up with the idea to have a 'superhero team comic book'.  Just the very idea of all these great superheroes on the Big Screen together is exciting!  Seriously! 

Yeah, I'm not expecting it to be as good as the Captain America Film... But just the 'idea' of seeing all of the superheroes on the Big Screen together is exciting to me! 

Ever since 1963, when I first saw Avengers #1 comic book with Thor / Hulk / Ant-Man / Wasp / Iron Man on the cover! Sheesh!  I can hardly wait!

And yeah... If the film doesn't turn out to be the 'winner' that it should be... There's always the next day... Saturday, May 5th for the 2012 Free Comic Book Day to attend! 

I'm hoping that this will be the Great Weekend that it should be!

As I used to say when I was a Marvelmaniac... 'Make Mine Marvel'!  At least for that May of 2012 weekend!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

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~ Michael D Hamersky

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

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Is Sad To Mention The Passing Of... Mr. Joe Simon (October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011)      - - Although both Joe Simon and Jack Kirby did additional work separately after their creative team broke up... So many fans and collectors of their works remember them best as 'Simon & Kirby'!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3563:

It was just last week that I blogged about the passing of comics great, Jerry Robinson, (blog #3559).  

Tonight, I'm sad to relay the information that another comics great, Mr. Joe Simon passed away on Wednesday, December 14th...

It is getting late in the day here on the West Coast... and at first I was looking through the photos I've taken over the years at comic conventions for a good photo or two to run here. 

But unfortunately I've not yet scanned all the images from years ago when I didn't have a digital camera.

Plus, after recently reviewing blogging Mr. Simon's works with Jack Kirby, (blogs #3207 &  #3530 are a couple that come to mind), I thought it fitting to include a couple of photos of Joe & Jack, along with a cropped photo of Joe by himself in the first column of this blog's header.

Here is the link to a list of Joe Simon's credits in comics via the Grand Comics Database (GCD).

Here is the Wikipedia entry to his public life, where you can read more of his accomplishments over the decades.

I enjoyed reading his works with Jack, and his own later solo works.  His contributions to the comics industry will be remembered for decades to follow...

My condolences to his family and friends.

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

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~ Michael D Hamersky

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

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Reviews... oMGcow in Print! By Sheika Lugtu at the 2011 Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC)!      - Photo this column: Sheika Lugtu at her table during the recnet 2011 Long Beach Comic Con!  A good comic con in the Los Angeles Metro Area to meet new comic book creators! - Top Photo left column:  A copy of the oMGcow comic in print that Sheika Lugtu signed to this blogger!

TODAY'S FEATURE - Blog #3562:

Tina LoSasso and I met Sheika Lugtu at a previous comic convention, and made a few suggestions as to her table's presentation to get her creations seen by more passersby. As always with new comics creators breaking into the con circuit, there are a lot persons who would like her works, if they only knew about them!  But how to get those passersby to stop long enough to find out?!

So Tina and I were both pleased to once again see Sheika at the recent 2011 Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC). Sheika had taken our advice to heart and rennovated her table into a great Point Of Sale (POS) presentation!   Both Tina and I loved the presentation, and there were other passersby that stopped while we were talking with Sheika!

Sheika was kind enough to pose for new photos, and gave me a copy of her web comic's hard copy comic book, that you see her holding in the top right of this blog post.  She was kind enough to autograph a copy for me, as seen at the top left of this post. Thanks for that, Sheika!

The comic book itself was a self published comic, in black & white, with 28 interior pages.  In a 5 & 1/2" by 8 & 1/2" size format. The comic published selected comics from the web comic site from January - March of 2011.

I had told Sheika at the earlier con, that I no longer reviewed online comics or .pdf copies of comics, as I had been flooded with those requests and stopped doing so as of March / May of 2010.  I strictly stay with hard copy format reading for possible review blog purposes. 

Additionally I had told her that when at a comic con, that a hard copy would be the best lasting 'impression' that a con goer would leave with.  She had followed up with that by self publishing a good representation of her works during that 1st quarter of 2011.

What is oMGcow?   It is an auto-biographical series of comics and short stories by Sheika Lugtu.  The comic began on August 2009, detailing Sheika's move to Long Beach and the strart of a pursuit in art.

Along the way, she makes new friends, struggles with her inner demons and gets a kitten!

The comic is ongoing (in color! online only), at oMGcow.com!

I believe that this first hard copy issue is a step in the right direction for Sheika to promote her webseries, and has done a fine job in selecting and publishing it.

I would give it a VERY FINE / NEAR MINT (VF/NM) 9.0 out of a possible 10.0 possible comic book grading scale, for a promotional comic book.  Again, due to its size format, and non-color comic book cover, it isn't a standard comic book issue, that you would find printed by ComiXpress or Ka-Blamm. It does serve its purpose though, for a promotional comic book, to introduce the buyer to read it, like it, and follow it to the web comic which is updated more frequently.

You can find it, and her web comic at the oMGcow.com web site.

I'm not for sure about Sheika's upcoming convention appearances, but she does have a blog as well that I'm sure she will mention those possible appearances at.

Also, for those of you interested in her past works, here is what she has done so far since the start of her pursuit in art starting in 2009:

- Fight Comic by Christopher Downes (2010)
- Sadness Anthology edited by Hazel Newlevant. (2011)
- Guest Comic: ACES (2011)
- Illustration work for Kung Pow Chicken  (2011)
- A 3-page comic for "Darkest Day: Comics for Christchurch" anthology by Funtime Comics (2011)
- An illustration for "What Use is a Book without Pictures?" project to illustrate Alice in Wonderland. Organized by Notld Reanimated. (2011)

Thanks again to Sheika Lugtu for bringing her updates to our attention at the 2011 Long Beach Comic Con. Great job in rennovating your con circuit presence, Sheika!

Looking forward to seeing what you have the next time at a con. See you in 2012!

~Michael D Hamersky On Comics!

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

~ Michael D Hamersky

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

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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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