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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.

You can participate in the new Tothfans.com

After many hours of web development I present to you the new Tothfans version 2.0. This new Tothfans website code allows everyone to participate and contribute content of all sorts in a new and simpler way.

New features:
- Create galleries with images (called "image sets")
- Upload images to other people's image sets
- Post your own articles, news stories, etc.

We're back & no more tothfans.dynu.com ...

It's been a hard summer and fall for tothfans.com!

First, I had a bunch of issues with my internet hosting bandwidth going off-line multiple times, and then the company that hosts the domain name (tothfans.com and tothfans.dynu.com) also went permanently dark and unreachable.

I really thought I was going to lose tothfans.com domain name forever. So after a struggle of 6

Darwyn Cooke's - 'The Alex' tribute comic posted.

Darwyn Cooke has sent us his comic "The Alex" which he created to honor Alex Toth. If you missed this on free comic book day, it now has a home there on tothfans.

Thanks Darwyn!

Thanks also go to John Hitchcock for engaging Darwyn to share it with the site, and

Photos from the Toth Panel @ SDCC

Ruben Procopio sent along some photos of the Toth panel from this year's San Diego Comic con for those who missed it.

The line-up on the panel was; Alex Gray, Jon Mefford, Mark Chiarello, Ruben Procopio, Damon Toth, Eric Toth, David Armstrong & John Hitchcock.

And if you have

Benton Jew - collect Roy Rogers comic strip by Toth?

Hey All. Benton Jew brought up a fantastic idea and challenge to all us Toth collectors - to collect Toth run ghosting Mike Ahrens on the "Roy Rogers" strip.

Benton wrote,

"A few years ago I bought an original Roy Rogers daily that Alex had ghosted for a few weeks. It would be nice to see the series of Toth-drawn ones all together online. I'd like to put out

Simplicity: The Life and Art of Alex Toth Documentary at Comic-con

Just Announced! At this year's San Diego Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 28 @ 3:30-4:30pm see "Simplicity: The Life and Art of Alex Toth".

"Featured for the first time will be the exclusive screening of the documentary Simplicity: The Life and Art of Alex Toth. The documentary will show what made

In Remembrance: Alex Toth

In Remembrance of Alex Toth: June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006

Dear John: The Alex Toth Doodlebook up for Eisner award

As posted by Jeff Parker in the Forums, the "Dear John: The Alex Toth Doodlebook" has been nominated for and Eisner award for Best Comics-Related Book.

Post your support for the book and John Hitchcock, Billy Ingram, James Counts and publisher Jeff Parker in the

"Rough Stuff" on Toth

Jesse Hamm posts: "The upcoming second issue of this magazine that showcases comics pencilling has a Toth gallery. Sample here:sample on bobmcleod.com
More details and ordering info here:twomorrows.com

Remembering Alex Toth - Part 3

The third part of the transcript for the "Remembering Alex Toth" Panel at the 2006 San Diego Comic-con is posted.

Thanks again to all of Alex's friends and family members, David Armstrong, Irwin Hasen, Dana Palmer, Eric Toth, Mike Royer, Paul Power, Rubén Procopio, John Hitchcock and Tom de Rosier for sharing with us all.