Today in Comics History, November 12: Happy birthday, Don Newton!

Born on this day in 1934: comic book artist Don Newton (Batman, Detective Comics, World's Finest Comics, Adventure Comics, Aquaman, The New Gods, The Phantom, more; co-creator of Jason Todd, the Yolanda Montez Wildcat, and Nocturna)!


"DC Profile #78: Don Newton" in DC Comics cover-dated October 1981

Today in Comics History; July 29: Happy birthday, Dave Stevens!

Born on this day in 1955, Dave Stevens, comics writer and artist and animation and movie storyboarder. We know him best as the creator and author/artist of The Rocketeer, and he's also done work on Jonny Quest, Airboy, and Bettie Page Comics (natch!)!



from Amazing Heroes #37 (Fantagraphics, December 15, 1983)

Kim Thompson is right, as usual

In all the hoopla-stravanga over the twenty-fifth anniversary of a movie that, let's face it, just hasn't aged very well, let's look at the words of the late great Kim Thompson about Batman '89 over in Amazing Heroes, The Comics Journal's superhero-lovin' kid brother. Take especial note of the prophetic last para:


Part of "Editorial" from Amazing Heroes #162 (April 1989), written by Kim Thompson
Ah, Kim, we miss and need you more than ever.