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[wonderful-strange]

Cover art for Squa Tront #9 (1983) by Johnny Craig.

Greystoke Trading Company.

#squa tront #johnny craig #ec comics #horror #horror art #horror comics #old witch #crypt keeper #vault keeper #1980s #greystoke trading company

[mrrubbersuitman]

FN/VF Squa Tront 2, second print. 1500 of these printed in 1967. Regularly $70.00, on sale until Midnight EST through the link for $49.00

#squa tront #ec comics #silver age comics #al williamson #reed crandall #bernie wrightson #frank frazetta #entertaining fanzines #comics #comic books #comics for sale

[cryptofmadness]

UPCOMING ISSUE OF EC FAN-ADDICT FANZINE ANNOUNCED!

Coming around October from Fantagraphics! Fasten your drool cups! Editor Roger Hill and Associate Editor Grant Geissman have teamed up to create the biggest and best issue of the EC FAN-ADDICT FANZINE yet! This profusely illustrated, 112-page, full-color issue is absolutely chock full of EC lore and rare artwork by EC artists! Front and back covers by Jack Davis. Featuring Frazetta’s original hand-colored silverprint of his legendary Weird Science-Fantasy 29 cover, an unpublished interview with EC Picto-Fiction cover artist/pulp fiction illustrator Rudy Nappi, a 1978 visit to Gaines’s legendary EC art vault, a feature on EC’s Leroy lettering team Jim and Margaret Wroten, EC Artist Christmas Cards, Jack Davis and Playboy, a feature on the Davis-illustrated Dracula’s Greatest Hits album, an exhaustive listing of all the various versions of EC’s Picture Stories from the Bible series, articles on the creation of—and history behind—the seminal 1960s EC fanzines Squa Tront and Spa Fon, and much more!

#upcoming releases #July 2023 #ec fanzines #articles #EC Fan-Addict Fanzine

[gritboy]

Squa Tront #13

After a five-year absence, SQUA TRONT returns with a profusion of rare and interesting features from the EC era: the story behind Basil Wolverton’s first EC art; Howard Nostrand’s last interview; art from the unpublished third issue of FLIP; Jack Davis’s WW II cartoons; plus EC era art by Wallace Wood, John and Marie Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, and Roy Krenkel. 48 page magazine Fantagraphics Books,…

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[patsywalkerbondagecover]

Weird Science 2, Gladstone Publishing, Ltd., November 1990. Reprinting classic EC stories from 1953 and 1950. Cover art by Wally Wood from Weird Science 16 (1953). “The Aliens” with art by Al Williamson from Weird Fantasy 17 (1950).

#gladstone #ec comics #wally wood #al williamson #1953 #1950 #1990 #spa fon #squa tront

[thebristolboard]

Original illustration by John Severin of the EC Comics gang in Civil War constumes, from Squa Tront #9, published by Jerry Weist, 1983.

#John Severin #Marie Severin #Harvey Kurtzman #Will Elder #Jack Davis #Wally Wood #EC Comics #Squa Tront #original art #Civil War #fanzine #Jerry Weist

[notpulpcovers]

Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson Dave Innes and Dian The Beautiful were main characters in Edgar Rice Burroughs' At The Earth's Core and follow-up novel Pellucidar. So this is undoubtedly from a project based on that. The presence of his laser blaster and rifle suggest the second novel over the first, if an adaptation instead of an original work. It was published in Squa Tront #4 in 1970

[twiststreet]

I was up late last night googling-up Paul Gulacy drawings to include in the short-term blog I’m running for the Gangland Allstars Kickstarter backers, when I came across Ken Meyer Jr.’s Ink Stains reviews of comic fanzines from the 60′s and 80′s. 

There’s some interesting material floating there. These are sketches from Al Williamson from 1968′s Squa Tront #2.  Whizzard #12 has a fun 1979 JIm Starlin interview (salty from being part of attempts to unionize that failed, and desperate to get out of comics)-- Starlin was getting $100 a page back then for line art ($70 for pencil art, $30 for inks) if you want to know how much things have changed in the last 40 years.  Gulacy shows up in Whizzard #14 along with a review that describes Sabre as “scientifically unsound.”  Gilbert Hernandez shows up in 1980′s No Sex 14 with Inez-- not one of his most polished works!  

You might’ve seen Jim Steranko’s Nick Fury board game from FOOM #1 before, but there’s also 1969′s Spa Fon interview with Steranko:  “To change the subject, what about Raquel Welch?”  “Steranko:  I don’t dig her; she’s too phony.”  “You mean as an actress?”  “No, I mean as a sex symbol.”  Also: “I collect swords-- edged weapons!”

#Worst Hobby or Worstest Hobby?

[raypunkzero]

Wallace “Wally“ Allan “Wood” (1927 - 1981) Squa Tront (Jerry Weist, 1967-83) https://ift.tt/2zP1lph June 21, 2020 at 12:56PM +visit our fellow Goethepunk art page

#raypunk

[ygnoge]

garden-ghoul replied to your photo “Big King Sky, our tiwaz pater, who o’ersees the wide expanse of earth:...”

JESSE what font is this I adore it

This is Squa Tront/Spa Fon, a font designed to replicate the weird old ‘Leroy Lettering Set’ used to letter a lot of vintage comics. I super want to use it more for things; I love how it looks in in this dense ‘should be mediaeval calligraphy’ kind of application!

#garden-ghoul #typography

[dantasticadventures]

Squa Tront!  There’s the EC love from Manning.

#comics

[wonderful-strange]

“The Vault Keeper” by Johnny Craig. Cover for Squa Tront #5, 1974.

Greystoke Trading Company.

#ec comics #squa tront #johnny craig #vault keeper #horror comics #horror art #art #pre-code comics #comic books #vault of horror #1970s #greystoke trading company

[mrrubbersuitman]

NM- Squa Tront 1, second print. 1500 of these printed in 1967. Regularly $200.00, on sale through the until tonight at midnight for $140.00

#squa tront #ec comics #roger hill #frank frazetta #jerry weist #reed crandall #al williamson #entertaining fanzines #silver age comics #comics #comic books #comics for sale

[cryptofmadness]

IN MEMORIAM: EC Fandom Legend Roger Hill

By Crypt of MADness Staff

Roger Allen Hill, (born October 14, 1948) passed away December 6, 2023.

Roger Hill’s contributions to EC Comics fandom cannot be understated. A comics historian, Hill wrote several books on various comic and pulp artists including Wallace Wood and Matt Fox. Up until Hill’s sudden passing, he was working on a book about American comic book artist Johnny Craig. Hill was publisher of “EC Fan-Addict Fanzine” and had put out five issues to date, with a sixth issue of material still planned as of writing.

Roger was also a co-founder (with Jerry Weist) of long-running EC Comics fanzine series “Squa Tront”. (Squa Tront has had fourteen issues published; the most recent in March of 2022.)

We’ll miss you so much Roger!

Hill’s obituary can be viewed here: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/roger-hill-obituary?id=53784802

#in memoriam #articles #December 2023 #Roger Hill

[yeahmikeromeo]

Episode 725: Comics Fanzines - Then & Now

The time between the first comic being published and the first fan discussion of comics can probably be counted in seconds. From their debut in the early days of the last century, these slabs of words and pictures have stayed in lockstep with other pop culture phenomena in generating a fandom so strong that it not only lasts to this day but literally changed the world we live in. Comics fandom was launched from small fanzines distributed by hand amongst locals or by mail to anywhere else, and it was decades worth of those pamphlets that helped build both the fanbase AND the creator pool necessary to help comics eventually breakout of their publishing ghetto. From The Comics Reader to Alter Ego to Squa Tront to The Comics Journal and all points in-between, the fanzines of yesterday built the fandom of today.

But what about today's fanzines? That question prompted Mike & Greg to devote today's episode to not only delving into some fanzine backstory, but also check out some of the 21st century crop of fanzines: Bubbles, Strangers, and But Is It Comic Aht?. And though it may have outlasted its fanzine origins, one can't look at the state of comics discussion and criticism in modern times without checking out the Fantagraphics juggernaut of TCJ.

So sit back, relax, and listen to the lads wax poetic about other comics fans waxing poetic about their favorite comics in any way they could!

Robots From Tomorrow is a twice-weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth’s surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. Stay safe and enjoy your funny books.

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