Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

We just got word of the passing of Ray Bradbury...

His website said it best...

...one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think.

His more than five hundred published works...exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.
Once read, his words are never forgotten.

Reading Room: JOE WORKER & THE STORY OF LABOR Part 1

With union-busting becoming bigger than ever, we should take a look at the past...

...to avoid it becoming our future!
NOTE: contains scenes of racism and religious/ethnic oppression in a historical context.
May be considered NSFW today, but this comic was distributed to schoolchildren in 1948.

More tomorrow!

With both corporations and local (state and city) governments trying to destroy the gains made for union members over the past hundred years (as shown in Wisconsin), it pays to see what was done before, and how history is on the verge of repeating itself.

Written by Malcom Atler under the pseudonym "Nat Schacnner", illustrated by Jack Alderman.

You'll note that each page is a self-contained tale.

They were originally prepared and formatted as half or full-page b/w comic strips to run in union newspapers/newsletters, then recompiled (with color added) for this comic book.

Coming tomorrow...Joe Worker!

We presented Is This Tomorrow?...

...a 1947 tale of a possible Communist takeover of the US , on our brother blog Seduction of the Innocent™!

Frighteningly, the over 60-year-old story, though fiction, showed the Reds using techniques Republicans are currently using to bust unions and sow racial unrest among the middle and working classes in places like Wisconsin!

Starting tomorrow, we'll be presenting a similar comic classic here: Joe Worker and the Story of Labor!

Published a year later by the National Labor Service, it details the history of labor vs management from the days of the Egyptians and Babylonians to the then-present of 1948!

With both corporations and local (state and city) governments trying to destroy the gains made for union members over the past hundred years, it pays to see what was done before, and how history is on the verge of repeating itself.

Reading Room: SPACE SQUADRON "Invaders"

Before Speed Carter, Atlas' resident space hero was Jet Dixon...

...leader of the circa-2000 Space Squadron in the 1951-52 series of the same name!

I'm still waiting on my flying car, much less interplanetary travel...

This premiere story from Space Squadron #1 was illustrated by George Tuska who later became the final artist on the original Buck Rogers comic strip (1959-67) and then assumed the art duties for almost a decade on Marvel's Invincible Iron Man!

The writer is unknown, but the scripting is clearly more simplistic and juvenile-oriented than the relatively more-sophisticated Speed Carter several years later.

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Design of the Week Redux--Love at the Beach

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week, due to great sales, we repeat our popular sumertime design...with the beginning of the season of fun at the beach, here's a kool retro romance comic design on everything from beach blankets to t-shirts, to tote bags!
Summer's gonna be hot, Hot, HOT!