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This image burned my brain when I was a little kid...

Sub-Mariner Battles the Human Torch by Bill Everett

I think it's one of the reasons I decided to become a cartoonist. I first saw this image in Jim Steranko's History of Comics book, and I remember begging my parents to buy the book for me at the Pickwick bookstore when I was about seven years old.

For full impact, you gotta see it BIG
at http://tinyurl.com/Submariner-Torch

This is just one of thirteen gorgeous comic book pin-ups specially commissioned for the Jim Steranko Calendar for 1971. See the whole thing in high-resolution at the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog.

Alex Toth - Part 2: How a TV Cartoon is Created - Animating, Layout, Camera and Production

Welcome back to the second half of Alex Toth and Bob Foster's illustrated guide to how TV cartoons are made.
This ran as a bonus back-up feature in the 1976 Super Friends oversized Limited Collectors' Edition comic book. For more of the background on this feature and the artists who created it, check out the first part at http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2008/11/tv-cartoon-is-created-by-alex-toth-and.html

The first five pages covered the earlier stages of cartoon production from development through storyboarding.

These last five pages cover stuff like...