Today in Comics History, October 4, 1927: Morpheus is a sucker for door-to-door encyclopedia salespeople

from Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell & Gone #1 (IDW/DC, April 2021), script by Joe Hill, pencils and inks by Gabriel Rodriguez, colors by Jay Fotos, letters by Shawn Lee

Today in Comics History, September 23: Happy birthday, Augustus Caesar!

Born on this day in 63 BC (wow, old!): Augustus Caesar, aka Octavian, the first Roman Emperor.

Which of course means a story entitled...


from "Great Caesar's Ghost" in Ghostly Tales #55 (Charlton, April 1966), script by Joe Gill (?), pencils by Steve Ditko, inks by Rocco Mastroserio, letters by Jon D'Agostino

Today in Comics History, July 24: Happy birthday, Colleen Doran!

Born on this day: writer/artist Colleen Doran, one of the major figures in indie comics (and comics for the Big Two or Three) since the 1980s (A Distant Soil, Wonder Woman, Comic Book Tattoo,Morrison Hotel, Mangaman, Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Amazing Fantastic Incredible: Stan Lee, The Sandman, American Gods, Orbiter, Snow, Glass, Apples, Spider-Man and many more!)


from A Distant Soil (1996 series) #35 (Image, November 2002)