100 Things I Love About Comics!
Fred started it with these two strips.
Alan then lovingly crafted his own inimitable version.
Several others also rose to the challenge. (EDIT: And here are quite a few more mighty fine Top One Hundred (give or take a few dozen or so) lists that I have doggedly tracked down across the immensely vast and far-flung digital reaches of the ever expanding comics weblogosphere, and many points beyond.)
And now, at long last, and after great deliberation: my very own list of 100 Things I Love About Comics:
1. Swamp Thing
2. Adam Strange
5. American Flagg! by Howard Chaykin
6. Jim Aparo
7. Archie Comics from the ’50s & ’60s
8. Atari Force
9. Atlas Comics (the ’70s company, not the pre-Marvel one, though that’s good, too)
10. Bacchus by Eddie Campbell
11. Kyle Baker
12. Carl Barks, the Good Duck Artist
13. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns & Strikes Again by Frank Miller
14. “Batman’s Time Travel Crimes on Venus”-type stories
15. Bone by Jeff Smith
16. Chester Brown
17. The Original Captain Marvel
18. Cerebus by Dave Sim & Gerhard
19. The Comic Reader
21. Concrete by Paul Chadwick
22. John Costanza
23. Peter David
24. DC Comics Presents #84 – Superman & the Challengers of the Unknown drawn by Jack Kirby & Alex Toth
26. Don Rosa
27. Doom Patrol by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani
28. Eightball by Dan Clowes
30. Evan Dorkin
31. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides & Dave Sheridan
32. The Fantastic Four by Stan ‘n’ Jack
33. Matt Feazell and The Amazing Cynicalman!
34. Fin Fang Foom and other Marvel monsters
35. Flaming Carrot by Bob Burden
36. The Flash by Carmine Infantino
37. Fox and The Crow by Jim Davis (no, not the Garfield guy)
38. Ramona Fradon
40. George Perez
41. Nat Gertler’s About Comics (esp. Licensable Bear)
42. Gil Kane
43. Grimjack by John Ostrander, Tim Truman, and friends
44. Groo the Wanderer by Mark Evanier & Sergio Aragones
45. Hellblazer
46. Fred Hembeck!!!
47. Herbie the Fat Fury by Ogden Whitney
49. Hex by Michael Fleisher, Mark Texeira, & Keith Giffen
50. Howard the Duck by Steve Gerber (accept no substitutes!)
51. Tony Isabella
53. JSA
54. Justice League of America #200
56. MacKenzie Queen by Bernie Mireault
57. Mad Magazine
58. Elliot S! Maggin
59. Marge’s Little Lulu & Tubby
61. Sheldon Mayer
62. ‘Mazing Man by Bob Rozakis & Stephen DeStefano
63. Scott McCloud
64. Megaton Man by Don Simpson
65. Mike Mignola
66. Alan Moore
67. Grant Morrison
68. Mr. Monster by Michael T. Gilbert
69. Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller
70. Nexus by Mike Baron & Steve Rude
71. Not Brand Echh
72. Off-brand funny animal comics from the Golden/Silver ages
73. Bob Oksner
74. Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
75. Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
76. Plastic Man
77. Quasar #1 through about, say, #25, by Mark Gruenwald & others
78. Ralph Snart by Marc Hansen
79. Rudy by William Overgard
80. Scott Saavedra
82. Dori Seda
83. Superman-family comics from the Silver Age
84. Walt Simonson
85. Snarf
86. Spider-Man by Steve Ditko
88. The very idea of Super pets
89. Superman Annual #9 (1983) drawn by Alex Toth!
90. Superman vs. Muhammad Ali by Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano & Terry Austin
92. Tales of the Beanworld by Larry Marder
94. UFO Encounters and UFO Mysteries
95. Rick Veitch
97. Zippy the Pinhead by Bill Griffith
98. Neilalien…
99. …my fellow members of the Associated Comics And Pop Culture Webloggers of Ventura County, CA And Outlying Environs (Dorian, Corey, Tom, Ian, Sean, and Fred)…
100. …and everyone else on the Comicsweblogosphere!
