Today in Comics History, September 13, 1918: Well, you can wish in one hand and poop in the other and see which piles up first

from "His War, Chapter II" in Savage Tales Winter Special one-shot (Dynamite, December 2022), script by David Avallone, art by Hamish Munro-Cook, colors by Jorge Sutil, letters by Taylor Esposito

Today in Comics History, May 25: Happy birthday, Barry Windsor-Smith!

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published May 25, 2022.

Happy birthday to comics writer, illustrator and painter Barry Windsor-Smith today! You may remember him from such films comics as Conan the Barbarian, Avengers, Weapon X, Machine Man, Uncanny X-Men, Solar: Man of the Atom, Archer and Armstrong, Rune, Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller, Monster, and lots more indeed! He's the co-creator of Red Sonja (comics version), Lady Deathstrike, Archer and Armstrong, Starr the Slayer, and others.


from Savage Tales #3 (Marvel, February 1974)