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DEAR JOHN-The Alex Toth Doodle Book

$19.99 for 256 pages of rare Toth art? Yes, coming up in June 2006 you can pre-order John Hitchcock's "DEAR JOHN-The Alex Toth Doodle Book" from Octopus Press at your local comic shop.

Here is a bit from the Diamond catalog description, "A new look inside the mind of one of comics' greatest creators! This collects 20 years worth of doodles,

New in May - Tributes and Space Ghost model sheets

Tothfans has received some new tributes this month of Toth's own "The Fox" by J. Christopher Greulich and a keen "Zorro" by Dave Cook.

Also not to be missed, Aron Arocho sent us a load of Space Ghost model

Welcome Penny Arcade Fans

For those folks from Penny Arcade who are are stopping by for the first time, you have arrived at the official Alex Toth website. (also reachable via

All new Alex Toth Tributes

We have some new Alex Toth tributes for the site from Federico Zilli, Paul Smith & Franck Biancarelli.

Franck's mentioned that his tribute is "..a song's adaptation : '

Interesting quote

"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Alex Toth

Alex Toth has his first ever "One Man Art Show" running Sterling Collage Art Gallery from November 1st 2005-January 31st 2006. The show put on by Dave Cook and his students to help expose new people to Toth's work.

So in order to give it a more permanent "virtual home", Dave has sent scans of the pieces to be displayed here

The Case of the Curious Classic Anotated

It's the "AnnoToth" we've all been waiting for, The Case of the Curious Classic". Josh B. Malks, editor of the Auburn/Cord/Duesenberg Newsletter, has offered to publish an article with 4 pages of color commemorating Alex's "casting" of the Cord in several stories. Dave Cook sent "The Case of the Curious Classic" to Toth saying, "Hey, we haven't

Tothfans 4th anniversary

October celebrates our 4th anniversary of tothfans.com! And what better way to celebrate than a birthday package loaded with images for the Gallery and a new Tribute? And some fresh things for The Page Of the Day! The Toth proves he still has it in the new millennium as artwork from 2000 thru 2005

June Tributes!

A new batch of has arrived for June. This month we have tributes from Marco Fodera, Scott James and Franck Biancarelli.

Check out their Batman, Space Ghost and Comic pages in the

Welcome!

Welcome, Alex Toth, to your own official web site!

Tribute Updates!

The tributes keep rolling in. And from what I have heard, Toth appreciates them!

Scott James sends us a pair of "Toth inspired" illustrations including Toth's famous "Fox" character as well as "Torpedo" in color.

Dave

New Tributes!

Two more new tributes! This week we have added art from Aaron Arocho and Dave Cook.

Aaron's goal was to, "...to pay a small portion back for what he's meant to his admirers. It took me a while to come up with a sketch that served its purpose in paying tribute to Mr. Alex Toth."

First Tribues added!

Well folks, the first few tributes have been added to the Tribues Gallery. We have a fine pair from Nicolas Blocteur of Jesse Bravo and The Fox! Greg Gates sent along a "..recent example of my always Toth-inspiired work" from "Jane Digby". Thanks guys!

New Tothfans Feature - Tributes!

Well, this may have been bought up before, but recently fellow Tothfan Roberto Zaghi proposed the following in an e-mail to me; "How do you think about starting a gallery where artists can post their tributes to Alex?"

Roberto mentions that he was inspired by the last holiday cards and though it might make a nice feature for the

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Send wishes to Alex for the Holidays!

In Today’s world, it is sometimes hard to take the time to slow down and reflect on what is most important; friends and family. I sure know that I fall behind on this. But at this time of year, we all have an excuse to take that time and remember to send greetings and spend time with friends and family. In that spirit we of course have the 3rd annual Holiday card for Alex.

So for the

Gallery Update

The Gallery update this time around includes a model sheet from Dino Boy and The Fantastic Four as well as a page from Rip Hunter and some Toth doodle pages. You can find it in the 2004 gallery section.

Tothfans is 3 years old!

Well, Murphy has been working against me lately.

First, Tothfans went down sometime last night. Then as I was building up a new Server today, I realized that I had missed announcing our Third Anniversary on October 18th! What a day for the server to crash…

So Happy Third Anniversary everyone! And once again thanks to Alex and all of Tothfans’ contributors and

Batman Annotated returns!

Batman is back! We gave you a brief one-month look at this last spring and at some Toth fans' requests we've brought it back -- Alex Toth's one and only Batman comic book story with his annotations, "Death Flies the Haunted Sky". There are insights from Alex about how the story originated, about comics layout and "insider's" knowledge from the

Postponed Honeymoon & No Love for Me Annotated

Looking back through time at comics done 50 years ago Toth is the only person who could really give us an insight into what it was like to draw for the comics, panel after panel, page after page, day after day.

These two Lev Gleason romance stories are from Boy Loves Girl #47: "Postponed Honeymoon" (6/1954) and "

Black Canary - Part II

Well, the the wait is over! The Black Canary annotated Part II is here.. Enjoy!


Read Black Canary - Part II Annotated

Black Canary Annotated - Part I!

No matter who created her, no one's ever put such a sexy mark on her as Toth, and in the Seventies his deliniation of The Black Canary for Adventure Comics upstaged the cover girl, Supergirl. How could one comics title have so much to stir up pubescing adolescent boys?

TV's "Kung Fu" may have had the moves but Toth's Black

Update: Toth issue of the Comics Journal

Dirk Deppey, Managing Editor of "The Comics Journal" has sent us an update on the contents of the upcoming Comics Journal Toth issue.

“TCJ #262 will contain over 30 pages of Toth's comics from the 1950s, including several classic tales from the Gleason comics series "Crime and Punishment," plus a romance strip from the same era. The interview is an archival conversation with