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Toth Tribute Tuesday - Ron Salas

Black Hood by Ron Salas

Toth Tribute Tuesday - Bosch Fawstin

Bravo for Toth by Bosch Fawstin

Toth Tribute Tuesday - Eric Orchard

Rex the Wonder Dog by Eric Orchard

Toth Tribute Tuesday - Gabriele Pennacchioli

Dylan Dog Digs Toth by Gabriele Pennacchioli

Toth Tribute Tuesday - Gigi Cavenago

Lady Zorro by Gigi Cavenago

Toth Tribute Tuesday - Mark Chiarello

Today begins a new feature on Tothfans.com. Simply put it is a weekly tribute created by Artists who admire and are influenced by Toth's art and work in some way.

This feature is being brought to us courtesy of Paul Fricke who has been reaching out to many people kindly asking them to volunteer time from thier busy lives to produce and

Update on Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth

I just contacted Dean Mullaney to get a quick update on "Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth".

In an interview given by Tom

Variant cover for The Fox #5 by Alex Toth

Archie comics Superhero brand Red Circle Comics recently brought back thier Superhero character "The Fox". Issue #5 will feature, ""...FIVE different variant covers, including one by legendary Fox artist Alex Toth."
Dean Haspiel and Mark Waid are bringing a fresh approach

June 25 - Happy Birthday

 
Happy Birthday Dad! Your memory and legacy lives on!
--Eric
 
 

Shel Dorf interview with Alex Toth

Here is an interview Shelf Dorf conducted with Alex Toth. Scan provided by John Hitchcock. Read the interview.
 
 
 

Some reviews of 'Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth'

Here are some reviews of "Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth". You can read the complete reviews by following the links.
"Now available from IDW Publishing and The Library of American Comics is Genius, Illustrated - the middle

High-res Batgirl from Andrew Whitehurst

Tothfan Andrew Whitehurst send us this high resolution image of the Batgirl Underoos art to enjoy. Thanks Andrew!

Click on image for high-res.

Another Try...

Ok, I decided to roll back to the code I released back in 2008 rather that have this whole site end up filled with spam.
I spend time to migrate the user accounts and cleaned up a few things. The logins are now your email address. If you forgot your password you can have a new

Forum software and Server Migration

Friends,
Time marches on. I have been using the same forum software for ten years (with some small upgrades) . Unfortunately, I needed to move to a new server. Rather than get all technical here, what this meant is that I could no longer use the old forum software.
Luckily someone was kind enough to write a migration tool to another forum code that would work on this server. It

Eclipso begins today.

The Fox!

Alex Toth Fox drawing originaly posted to the web by artist and sculptor Rubén Procopio. You can find Rubén here and here.
 

 

Zorro from Dell Four Color Comic Book # 882

Zorro from Dell Four Color Comic Book # 882 begins today.

Gun Glory from Dell Four Color Comic Book # 846

Gun Glory from Dell Four Color Comic Book # 846 begins today.

Rex Allen's Frontier Doctor from Dell Four Color Comic # 877

Rex Allen's Frontier Doctor from Dell Four Color Comic # 877 begins today.

The Lennon Sisters Life Story from Dell Four Color Comics #951 (1958)

The Lennon Sisters Life Story from Dell Four Color Comics #951 (1958) begins today.

The Alex Toth books of 2011 - Genius, Isolated & Setting the Standard

 

Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
Product Details:
* Paperback: 416 pages
* Publisher: Fantagraphics Books (August 17, 2011)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1606994085
* ISBN-13: 978-1606994085
* Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
 

Alex Toth: Genius in three volumes - coming March 2011

In an example of Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell's dedication and hard work, the awaited biography of Alex Toth will be presented in three volumes starting in March 2011.
In an email back in October, Dean Mullaney reported that "Bruce Canwell's bio text is already over 30,000 words

The Last Horrors of Alex Toth on TCJ.com

"by James Romberger
Fear and suspense can be effectively created by the inference of the unknown. What is shown can be less harrowing than what is implied and then forms in the imagination of the reader. The late cartoonist Alexander Toth disliked drawing explicit horror and violence in the style of E.C., what he called “gore-gulping grind and grunge.” His preferred

Space Ghost And Dino Boy @ theWB.com

With my new post of Toth's primer on TV Animation 'TV Cartoons',  I thought I would look for a few Toth cartoons online tonight.
There is no shortage of them on Youtube, etc. A