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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

Toth Biography due in October

Alec Stevens posted this on the topic of the Toth Biography,
"Here's what Dean Mullaney had to say to Newsarama this month on the topic:

Mullaney: We're in the midst of a sprawling biography of Alex Toth, titled Genius, Isolated and due out in October. We view it as sort of a bookend to our 2008 Scorchy Smith & The Art of Noel Sickles, which I think would tickle Alex,

Roy Rogers comic strip book - request for scans

Hey folks, here is an email I received recently. Can anyone help find good scans of the Roy Rogers strips Toth ghosted in the 60s for an upcoming Roy Rodgers comic strip book?

Here is the email..
quote:

Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:20 PM
From:

All Star tribute toToth podcast @ sidebar.com

Inazuma Tiger Posted,
"Hey all,

Just wanted to inform you that Part One of the All Star Toth tribute podcast on SiDEBAR has been posted. Part Two will be posted shortly. It all promises to be an absolutely epic thank you to Mr. Toth!

Please drop in for a listen under Episode 109:

 

Torpedo reprints this month.

 Neil Polowin, posted;

"fyi, IDW is launching a new set of Torpedo reprints this month, with new english translations by Jimmy Palmiotti and book design by Darwyn Cooke. Each volume will be hardcover, 160 pp.

Volume 1 (Sept 15, 2009):

Official Alex Toth Store open for business

 
The Toth Estate and Family have launched "The Alex Toth Store".
Dana Palmer (one of Toth's children) told us, "We have been working on the placement of some of Dad's artwork onto doodle pads, t-shirts, etc..  and

Page of the Day

Hey All,
After being behind all summer, I finally have a new "page of the day" story for everyone. This is the Warren classic "The Hacker's Last Stand" and was contributed by Roberto Zaghi.
Thanks Roberto!
 

Hotwheels

 Some time in late 1969(?) or 1970, DC comics and ABC created product tie-in comic books and cartoon episodes based on the famous and very popular Mattel toys.

Rumor has it that the cartoon was canceled because it was not much more than a 1/2 hour commercial. As we know Toth

New code is really bad, huh?

Ok, Perhaps my new code is a total failure.
No hard feelings on my part if you tell me so.
The site activity totaly dropped off after the new site code was put in place. Some people report having problems, and I'm not able to recreate them on my side to fix them.
The old forum is still available if people

Dave Stevens

Sorry if I'm the last to hear this, as I see we lost Dave back in early March, but the Chicago Tribune published the news in their weekly obituary round-up only yesterday (April 6, 2008).
I'm very saddened to hear Dave was so sick and has succumed to his Lukemia, it's a sad loss to the comic world, I'll miss his work.
S.

New Noel Sickles reprint book - Scorchy Smith And The Art Of Noel Sickles

I suppose this is old news, but I'll post it for those folks who may not have heard. IDW is publishing Scorchy Smith And The Art Of Noel Sickles.