In honor of today's presentation of the Peabody Awards , here's a little-seen custom strip from Broadcasting magazine commemorating the occasion of A Charlie Brown Christmas having garnered t...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2013/05/congratulations-peabody-winners.html
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the day we played host to comix legends Peter Bagge and Daniel Clowes as part of their Hateball Tour, so what better time to dip into the Bizarro...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2013/05/twenty-years-ago-today.html
So... I was reading about these Battlestar Galactica eyeglasses at the National Museum of American History's blog, and while scrolling down through the comment section, I ran across a pai...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2012/02/acme-optometric-library.html
DAN DARE Here's a short clip from a 1956 British Pathé newsreel featiuring Frank Hampson in his studio with some nice shots of his models and the elaborate costumes and props used,...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2012/02/frank-hampson-draws-dan-dare.html
Don't click this, click this! So... Mr. Al Bigley , noted comics artist and enthusiastic blogger, posted this two-page Monkees strip by Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo yesterday, al...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2012/01/go-look-at-this-obscure-monkees-comic.html
In the wake of TMZ's recent allegations as to the shocking conduct of Archie Comics CEO Nancy Silberkleit , We sent one of our roving reporters to Riverdale to investigate. Mr.Archie Andrews h...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2011/07/exclusive-male-archie-comics-staffers.html
Todd Franklin posted a picture of a pretty gorgeous comic book vending machine (I'm not gonna swipe his photo... click through to check it out) today at his blog, Neato Coolville , and this prom...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2010/03/comic-book-vending-machines.html
Over at Misce-Looney-ous , Jerry Beck has been asking for info on some Looney Tunes cards apparently included in packages of Wonder Bread in 1974. He's got five, and he'd like to know the total n...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2010/02/1974-wonder-bread-trading-cards-mystery.html
If you need to know more about this for some reason, visit Early Works for explication.
As a good number of you reading this know, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories sold in vast quantities in the '50s, routinely selling in excess of three million copies a month for years on end, wit...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/12/christmas-gift-from-aunt-cora.html
Steve Bissette reports that Irv Tripp, who worked on the vast majority of Little Lulu stories, has died at the age of 88 in Haines City, Florida. He did finished pencils and inks over rough l...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/12/irv-tripp-1921-2009.html
One of my other internet timewasters is Early Works , a blog presenting my artwork between the ages of two and fourteen, with commentary. But I've got skeletons from other closets beside my own...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/12/early-works-crossover-special-1-little.html
Join noted designer /blogger /author /vertebrate Kirk Demarais on a 2007 tour of the store, along with a view of my home before our stuff all got packed up and shoved in storage awaiting the...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/12/take-tour-of-store-and-more.html
If you were an action-figure-buying child in the mid-'70s like myself, you were probably a bit confused by your Mego Catwoman , wearing an outfit that, while it kinda looked like the TV vers...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/12/catwoman-by-frank-robbins.html
Hey, Rush Limbaugh! Quit crying about Sean Penn and Tim Robbins and the Dixie Chicks! If you want to complain about America-haters in Hollywood, it's time you went after Daffy Duck! Plenty of...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/12/blame-america-first-crowd.html
...and yet here it sits on my desk...a package of First Comics E-Man stickers! feel like the Joe Staton art on the header card is recycled from a subscription ad or somesuch, so it doesn't n...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/11/something-that-obviously-doesnt-exist.html
You might possibly interested to know that there is a Flickr group devoted to our establishment under the name The Wonderful World of Bizarro-Wuxtry , which may be examined by clicking the link....
Here's a Basil Wolverton piece that I've never seen before, used as part of an ad (the rest was not by Basil, and not all that interesting) in the 8/29/1966 issue of Broadcasting magaz...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/11/blanc-by-wolverton.html
Assuming that you've read Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Boy On Earth (and if not, I recommend you do so posthaste), then you naturally recall the section of the book regarding Jimmy's f...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/11/your-jimmy-corrigan-footnote-of-week.html
This is actually several years old. but I didn't have a forum in which to discuss it. Behold... SENTINELS OF LIBERTY #1- Screaming on the Inside: "THE MURDER, Part One" (scroll do...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/10/newsflash-bizarro-wuxtry-destroyed.html
If you're anything like me (and I suspect that you aren't), you're intimately familiar with this ad that ran in all DC books in 1964. I've probably got 8 or 10 copies of it in one comic or anoth...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2009/09/superman-vs-cyclops.html
The world-renowned artist and musician Mr. Nate Powell will be appearing in support of Swallow Me Whole, his new book from Top Shelf . Won't you come and pay him your respects, and also maybe b...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2008/10/live-and-in-person-one-show-only.html
This blog you see before you on your screen doesn't amount to much now, but at some unspecified point in the future, it shall be the official house organ of Bizarro-Wuxtry, the world-renowned com...
http://www.bizarrowuxtry.com/2008/07/greeetings-to-people-of-internet.html