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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.

More Toth coming to stores - Alter Ego & America's Greatest Comics

As posted by Neil Polowin in the forums - "Roy Thomas is devoting an upcoming issue of his Alter Ego magazine to Toth's work, and AC Comics is publishing America's Greatest Comics #16 as a "special all-Alex Toth issue". btw, the latter is listed in the current issue of Previews as item AUG062894 if anyone wants to pre-order."

Remembering Alex Toth - Part 2

The second part of the three piece transcript of the "Remembering Alex Toth - Part 2" panel from the San Diego Comic-con has been posted.

Photos from Comic-con

For more Photos for the San Diego Comic Con, You can visit the Parts Unknown website. Don Stroud has posted photos of the John Hitchcock, Jeff Parker and fellow Toth fans visiting the Octopus Press booth at Indy Island. Also included are some photo's of the Toth Panel.

Remembering Alex Toth - Part 1 (of 3)

The first of a three part transcript of the "Remembering Alex Toth" panel at the San Diego Comic-con is now available.

The panel featured close friends and family, David Armstrong (moderator), Irwin Hasen, Dana Palmer, Eric Toth, Mike Royer, Paul Power, Rubén Procopio, John Hitchcock and Tom de Rosier. It is

"The Alex Toth Doodle book" now in stores

"The Alex Toth Doodle book" by Alex Toth and John Hitchcock, published by Jeff Parker's Octopus Press arrived in stores today, Wednesday, July 26th.

The book is filled with never before seen Toth art, musings, annotations and interview answers.

Sold out? Can't find it? - you can order one from John himself. He'll even sign it for you

Toth: The Comics Journal #277

Now on the shelves, The Comics Journal #277.

In this Issue:
* Alex Toth Dies at 78:
by Jesse Hamm (Yes, the very same long time fellow Tothfan here on the site.)
* Alex Toth:
An appreciation and an assessment by Howard Chaykin
* A Conversation with Alex Toth:
by Gary Groth

Quick Update: Remembering Alex Toth @ Alex Toth @ the San Diego Comic-con.

For those waiting, a report of the "Remembering Alex Toth" panel will be coming in a few days. We will have photographs of the event as well as a write up.

For those who are here in San Diego, a reminder that you can see a unique display of Toth's original artwork Sunday, July 23rd from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Omni San Diego Hotel (Room 5: fourth floor).

Remembering Alex Toth @ the San Diego Comic-con

The details of the memorial panel are now available on the San Diego Comic-con website:

"6:00-7:30 Remembering Alex Toth— This unique artist was one of the true innovators in both the comic book and animation worlds. Alex died this May. To celebrate his life and career, his friends and colleagues share memories of his work

Alex Toth Biography

By: Dave Cook

Alex Toth was known for a dynamic minimal style that was the envy of every emerging graphic artist and many seasoned professionals. His style is often described in the jargon of graphic artists as “good” which actually means superlative and exemplary, top-notch, clean, perhaps even perfect – what most artists from the Fifties through the Nineties would associate as the

Remembrances of Alex Toth

Remembrances:

- Alex Toth remembrance by Dave Cook

- Remembrance tribute drawing by Aron Arocho

- Remembrance tribute drawing by

Alex Toth: June 25, 1928 - May 27, 2006

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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