by John | Apr 24, 2013 | Blog

Scan courtesy of Jacque Nodell’s Sequential Crush blog.
So what have they been doing that Mom mustn’t know about?
A. Fighting crime as masked vigilantes. (POW ZAP BAMM)
B. Making out like bunnies. Really, really horny bunnies. Only hornier.
C. Pretending to enjoy kissing and dating each other.
D. Calculating the square root of pi.
E. Participating in a “love-in” protest against sex.
To find out, check out Jacque Nodell’s clever presentation of the 1971 Secret Hearts story “Mother, Let Me Go.”
by John | Apr 21, 2013 | Blog

Interior covers for the anthology are a mosaic of Last Kiss images.
There’s about a week to go in the Kickstarter campaign for the Anything That Loves anything. The campaign blew past it’s original $10,000 goal very quickly. (As I write this, it’s raised over $25,000.)
But there are lots of cool goodies available for contributors. Deadline April 29!

by John | Apr 21, 2013 | Blog

I’m late, late, late in reporting this, but I wanted to give a shout out to Last Kiss colorist Diego Jourdan Pereira. Diego was interviewed in depth in the February issue of The Cartoonist (the newsletter of the National Cartoonists Society.)
It’s obviously not a magazine you’re going to pick up at a 7-11, but being spotlighted in The Cartoonist is very prestigious (and very cool) in the comics community.
by John | Apr 17, 2013 | Blog
So how much change was he offering her for a date? A buck fifty? Fifteen cents? Sheesh!
(Art by Matt Baker from Diary Secrets #19, 1953.)

by John | Apr 13, 2013 | Blog
As a maid, Hazel was overpriced. But as a marriage counselor, she was a bargain!

Pencils and possibly inks by Matt Baker from the cover of True Love Pictorial #2, 1953.
by John | Apr 12, 2013 | Blog

The truth about men? We’re all great guys! We’ve just been misunderstood.
Of course, some of us are greater than others!
To read the actual comic book story “The Truth About Men” check out Jacque Nodell’s great romance comic book blog Sequential Crush.