Star Trek Enterprise Studio Model

Star Trek Enterprise Studio Model

This is the model used to film the original 1960s Star Trek TV series. It is on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Quite a thrill for this long time Trekkie to get to see it in person. Very impressive, but, very difficult to...
Original Art to Amazing Fantasy #15

Original Art to Amazing Fantasy #15

In 1962 Marvel Comics published a comic called Amazing Fantasy #15. It contained the first appearance and origin of the Amazing Spider-Man, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Steve Ditko. The original artwork was anonymously donated to the Library of Congress in 2008....
2024 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo

2024 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo

Trudy and I attended the 2024 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo recently. This year C2E2 celebrated 15 years and quite a bit has changed over the years. It’s focused on a younger generation, (understandably), and my main interest, original comic art, was not...
Milwaukee Comic Convention

Milwaukee Comic Convention

Trudy and I drove to Milwaukee on Saturday, to check out the Milwaukee Comic Con. It was a small, one-room event, with about 200 vendors. Milwaukee really needs something like this and I look forward to seeing it grow every year.
Assistants

Assistants

Tony Mortellaro assisted John Romita by inking the backgrounds on some issues in the ’70’s. He liked to work his name into the backgrounds on billboards, building and water towers. etc. This is an example from issue #119, page 8. To see the entire page,...