Showing posts with label Mod Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mod Love. Show all posts

Sunday, February 1, 2026

In February, TRUE LOVE COMICS TALES Goes MOD...

...with tales from a Never-Reprinted 1960s Comic Magazine...

...not  a Comic Book !
Western's Mod Love (1967) was a magazine-sized 50¢ multi-color publication with all material written by Michael Lutin and illustrated by already-noted graphic artist Michael Quarez who went total "pop art", with one important difference!
Unlike most "pop art" visualizers (including myself) who used exaggerated dot screens to mimic Roy Lichtenstein's pseudo-pop art work...
...Quarez used only solid colors in his work, creating incredibly-vivid visuals, such as this two-page spread about hot, hot hot fashion boutique Tiger Morse's!
We ran the stories over a decade ago with scans we found on the Internet, but since acquiring a copy of this very-hard-to-find publication, we've remastered them from scratch and will present them on three of the four Wednesdays in February!
But, on the second week of February, aka Valentine's Day Week, we're paying tribute to the creators of the romance comics genre, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, with a special never-reprinted, cover-featured, Valentine's Day tale from Young Love!
(And yes, that's a very young Robert Redford, during his male model period, on the cover!)

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Design of the Week MOD LOVE

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week, kool, retro Swinging Sixties-style pop-art comic art on a line of collectible goodies (including this mug) which would be perfect as small Valentine's Day presents for your pop-culture-obsessed Significant Other!
BTW, our "sister" RetroBlog, True Love Comics Tales, has run almost all the stories from this incredibly HTF book, as shown HERE
Order now, because the Day for Lovers is only a month away!
And you don't want to be caught empty-handed!

Friday, June 3, 2011

Mod Love for the beach!

Our "sister" RetroBlog™ True Love Comics Tales™ has been presenting romance comic stories from the 1940s to the 1970s, and this this one from the Psychedelic '60s is one of our particular favorites!
Not only is it colorful enough to make our eyes bleed, but it's one of the few comic book stories drawn by a famous fine artist,  French pop artist Michel Quarez. when he was already established as a "fine artist"!
In most cases, like Presidential portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler,  the artist's comics work is part of their "misspent youth" period. (Although Kinstler happily acknowledges his comics work HERE!)

At any rate, we liked the cover art so much that we've put it on a line of kool kollectibles absolutely perfect for use as beachwear or summer loungewear!
You can also find the actual story pages on...
or
RetroKool or what?