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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

"Carlos and I were friends first, and then we started collaborating. Our way of working was to meet in a bar and discuss what we were going to do. The scripts were always a joint effort. I don’t have manuscripts of his scripts […]. Everything was talked about […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black and white comic panel: several people at a bar counter. In the foreground, a young woman with a cigarette in her hand, still unlit. In the background, at the door of the bar, the silhouette of a man entering.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

"I’d wanted to make a western for a long time, but because of my obvious artistic connection to Jean Giraud, it was difficult to make a western after him. That held me back. At 40, I was starting to gain experience and I told myself I had to go for it. And […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two images, one above the other, from the same comic book panel. The top image is in black and white; the bottom one, already in colour. The image shows a bearded man in a suit, boots, and hat, with a cigarette in his mouth, sitting in a chair in front of a carriage bearing the words "Undertaker." The setting has a Western aesthetic. The image is shot from a steep low angle.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

"I have a fondness for the little things that make up everyday life. I don’t really know how I do it. I observe things meticulously and reproduce the details, the insignificant aspects that people don’t notice. I suppose it’s primarily this attention to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black and white comic panel: Overhead view of the interior of a hair salon. Wooden floor pierced by beams of sunlight. On the right of the image, a barber cuts a customer's hair. In the centre of the image, a child sits on the floor playing with toys.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

"Looking at his work you are immediately drawn to his characters. Posture, gait, the tilt of a head, and direction of the eyes, conveying so much beneath the surface – even when expressionless. His lines are deliberate, usually clean and uncluttered yet with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel, in color: a woman sitting on public transport (a bus or a tram), with her arms crossed, looking out the window. She is the only passenger. The caption reads: "... Tout était désert et silencieux, y compris la voiture où je me trouvais...".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

The last human being has reached the end of his life and, accompanied by two androids, wants to see Earth one last time... A story written and drawn by Richard Corben, first published (8 pages in colour) in 1972, in 'Funnyworld' #14. 🖼️ 'Going Home' (1972) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A spaceship approaches a bright celestial body.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

"He will deny it, but the real merit of this work is obviously Breccia’s. My work of adaptation has the characteristics of the amanuensis; on the other hand, Breccia has materialised, in his drawings of multiple dimensions, Lovecraft’s horrors, which are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black and white comic panel; thick lines, masses of gray, marked shadows, collage elements: A man walks down a lonely street in a small village, in the middle of the night. The caption says: "A últimos de abril, poco antes de la sombría fecha de Walpurgis, Blake decidió hacer una excrusión para verificar sus suposiciones".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

🖼️ 1: 'Dead-Ringer' (1951), by Johnny Craig 🖼️ 2: 'Criminal: Second Chance in Hell' (2008), by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips 🔗 apaneladay.com/johnny-craig-dead-ri… #comics

Two very similar panels from two different comics, side by side. Both depict a nighttime scene in the countryside, and in both, the characters are positioned at the bottom, under a starry sky that fills almost the entire image. In the first (the older one, from 1951), a kneeling man addresses three others, one of whom is holding a gun. The kneeling man says: "No! No! Don't kill me! (Sob!) Please! Gimme a chance! Listen to me! Listen to my story!" In the second panel (from 2008), a man points a gun at another, who leans back with his hands outstretched, as if trying to protect himself. The latter says: "Wait! Just stop - Listen to me! Please! Just let me talk!".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Carlos Giménez originally created his adaptation of Poe’s 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' in 1971 for the Spanish magazine 'Trinca', but it was never published there due to "censorship problems." The story was finally published in 1976 in 'Club de […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A sequence of five vertical comic panels, in high-contrast black and white, showing the same drawing of a large, old house, but at different moments during a storm. In the first panel, a lightning bolt is seen (along with the onomatopoeia "Craths! Tlac!") and the following dialogue: "Señor Valdemar! ¿Dormís todavía?"; in the second, dominated by the white light of the lightning, the following dialogue: "No, he estado durmiendo y ahora.... Ahora estoy muerto"; in the third, a clap of thunder: "Braaoooum!"; in the fourth, an intense rain; in the fifth and final panel, an even more intense, torrential downpour.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

"I enjoy working in this genre [fantasy and horror] because I can create moods and atmosphere from my imagination, which is always a challenge. I want to make the images believable, and intrigue, excite and sometimes disturb the reader." —John Bolton […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A black and white comic panel, very vertical: a young woman climbs the stairs in what appears to be an old house, engrossed in reading a letter she holds in her right hand. In her left hand, she carries a lit candle, illuminating her path. At the top of the panel, on the ceiling, a monstrous-looking creature half-descents from an attic door, trying to reach the young woman's head with its claw, but missing by only a few centimetres.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

"JML: You give me the impression of someone who has a very dark view of the world but who still deeply loves people... H: There is an ambiguity about me; at times, despite everything, emotionally speaking, I still let myself get swept away! And at the same […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A woman and a man, holding hands and seen from behind, walk through a field in the fog towards a village visible in the distance. The colour palette is brown and gray, like watercolor.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

"['Twins'] is beautifully drawn, in a style reminiscent of both Posy Simmonds and Raymond Briggs. It’s about families and friendships, and the ways in which life plays out through them." —Edward Picot, in Broken Frontier 🖼️ 'Twins' (2024), by Teresa […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: Two women sitting opposite each other at a small table in a cafe, with steaming cups of coffee. Caption: "At college the next day." One of the women is smoking a cigarrete. She says: "Disd you sleep with him?" The other one, younger, replies: "No!", and also thinks: "I didn't 'sleep' with him".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

"[...] The surprisingly poignant strip 'Cidopey' was a showcase for a technique Corben had developed himself: using multiple sheets of color templates, often toned by airbrush, to create work of incredible luminescence and depth." —David Roach, in his Richard […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A naked person with pointed ears and breasts sits on a tree branch over colourful water, while a creature with a round head and wide eyes floats below, saying, "C'mon in! Water's fine! ...Why so glum, Opey?." The colours on the part of the person sitting on the branch are predominantly blue. The rest is a combination of intense oranges, pinks, reds and yellows. The creature is light green.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

"I take a breather when I start colouring. All the hard work is done, it smells like a stable, and I can let myself go and listen to the radio and music while handling the brushes." —François Bourgeon, interviewed in ActuaBD in 2015 🖼️ 'Les compagnons du […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: Two people in a small boat row through water under a large, moss-covered archway at sunset, with what appear to be the ruins of a palace visible in the distance, in the middle of the water. The scene is dominated by greenish colours, except for a portion of the sky in shades of yellow and pink.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

"I usually combine the stories I write about experiences I’ve lived, with adaptations of texts by writers I like. My own stories, being real-life topics, tend to be more monotonous to draw [...]. The writer that I am has more fun when he writes his own […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel in black and white: Silhouette of a man in a coat, top hat and walking stick, under a heavy rain, in a narrow alley. Old houses, and a lantern on a wall. The caption reads: "A las diez salí de la casa".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025

Better known for his brilliant work in the series 'Diabolik', the great Italian comic artist Sergio Zaniboni (1937-2017) began working in 1972 for the children’s magazine 'Il Giornalino', where he published several stories of Lieutenant Marlo (Tenente Marlo) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: Medium close-up of a man talking on the phone in a phone booth. He is wearing a trench coat and a cap, and we cannot see his face, which is covered by the telephone handset and the raised collar of his coat. The speech balloon reads: "Salve, ispettore Elliot! Dormito bene?".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

“Who wants to know?” One of my favourite Peter David lines, in 'The Death of Jean DeWolff' (The Spectacular Spider-Man #107, 1985). Rest in peace, and thank you for so many good readings. apaneladay.com/jean-dewolff-spider-… #PeterDavid

Comic panel: A man drives a car while drinking coffee. On the window, on the outside, Spider-Man's head, upside down. Spider-Man says: "Hi there! You detective Carter?" The man driving replies: "Who wants to know?"

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

"I am a pirate who has discovered an island full of treasures: the collective imagination. I land there with my boat, I plunder, I carry away, I make collages of fantasies and costumes and I sell them to the highest bidder." —Roberto Raviola 'Magnus' […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black and white comic panel: a group of six warriors on horseback ride in line through a forest, in the middle of the night, under the snow. The last rider carries a lighted lantern. The caption reads: "La luna e' scomparsa, oscurata, cade un fino nevischio che comincia a coprire la strada chiacciata."

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025

"I consider reading 'Storeyville' for the first time one of the touchstones of my life as a cartoonist, and the book itself one of the landmarks of comics’ development." —Chris Ware, in the introduction to the 2007 edition of 'Storeyville', published by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic page with 15 panels of the same size, in a grid. Grey, yellow, orange colours. The panels reflect different railway motifs (tracks, carriages, locomotives, a man travelling on the roof of a carriage, etc.). Captions read: "I made a three week jump", "I rode lines crisscrossing Ohio and Illinois on up to Chicago...", "... where I turned North and jumped all the way to Winnipeg, Manitoba".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

"No, Spider-Man is amazing. I’m incredible." 🖼️ The Incredible Hulk (1994), by Peter David and Gary Frank 🔗 apaneladay.com/hulk-david #comics #Marvel #Hulk #Spiderman

Two comic panels: in the first one, a large, green-skinned man (the Hulk) walks with four other people through an airport baggage reclaim hall, in a shot seen from above. One of the people walking beside him (a red-haired woman) says: "And that's Betty there. And you must be Dr. Banner," and then: "My, Marlo wasn't exaggerating, green skin. Amazing." In the second panel we move to a half-frontal shot, in which the Hulk responds: "No, Spider-Man is amazing. I'm incredible", while being elbowed by another of the people walking next to him (a blonde woman). The red-haired woman who spoke in the first panel now says: ‘Well, with Marlo anything is possible," and then: "Like in Vegas, she was involved with some grotesque man with gray skin. Thank God she broke that off."

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

'Hollow Earth' was the first B.P.R.D. mini-series, following Hellboy’s departure from the Bureau. In this panel, Hellboy is responding to the boy, who has just asked him, “Aren’t you affraid I’ll… burn you?”. 🖼️ 'B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth' (2002), by Mike […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: Hellboy (a large, muscular, red/orange/brown-skinned ape/monkey-like man with a tail, circular stumps on his forehead that resemble goggles, cloven hooves, and an oversized right hand made of stone) offers a lollipop to a child. Hellboy is sitting on the edge of a bed. The boy is sitting on the other edge, looking scared and hugging a pillow that covers half of his face. The speech balloon from Hellboy reads "Nope.".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

"I think of comics as a very human and intimate medium. It’s one of the visual mediums we have that one person can create [...]. When I did ‘Blankets,’ at the time it seemed like a novelty to do a really big book where absolutely nothing happens [...]. And I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel in black and white: Two young people cuddling on a bed, on a blanket. He, with his eyes open, embraces her from behind. She, eyes closed, is in a semi-fetal position.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

"I wanted to get involved in mystery, detective novels, suspense… and I got myself so tangled up in my puzzles that I almost never got out of them." —Hergé, in 'Tintin et moi – entretiens avec Hergé', by Numa Sadoul 🖼️ 'Les aventures de Tintin: Les cigares […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A young man and his dog (the comic book characters Tintin and Snowy) enter a large Egyptian sarcophagus chamber, shocked to see the characters (mummified, or covered by bandages) inside the sarcophagi. The large walls of the room are decorated with motifs of ancient Egyptian art.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

"I draw and write about women who know what they want." —Gihèn Ben Mahmoud, interviewed in AfriBD (2009) 🖼️ 'Il sole e la luna' (2010), by Gihèn Ben Mahmoud 🔗 apaneladay.com/gihen-ben-mahmoud-af… #comics #bd

Comic panel: Medium shot of a woman asleep (or with her eyes closed) in a pleasant attitude (with a half-smile). She wears a scarf on her forehead and a bracelet on her arm. Long, curly hair. In the background, a window through which we can see a jungle landscape and an animal (probably a lemur) on a branch, looking towards the interior of the room where the woman is sleeping.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

"I think that I can bring something to the books I work on that is unique, and that feels good." —Paul Mounts, colourist, interviewed in This Is Not News (notnews.org) in 2002 🖼️ 'Fantastic Four' (2009), by Jonathan Hickman, Neil Edwards, Paul Mounts 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A cityscape of skyscrapers at night. The sky has a greenish color. In the upper right is the full moon, very bright. The caption reads: "Later."

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

Created by José Escobar in 1947, 'Carpanta' became one of the most representative series of the Spanish post-war. The main character, Carpanta (a word that means "atrocious hunger"), is a poor man always hungry who dreams of satisfying his appetite, but only […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel in red and black colours: A man of small stature with a beard, a hat and a big nose looks at a shop window with his hands behind his back. Inside the store there are cans of canned food. The thought balloon from the man reads: "Bonito escaparate. La pesca salada y las conservas cuentan con toda mi simpatía. ¡Qué espectáculo tan maravilloso! Es mejor que una puesta de sol en Alaska".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

"I was always fascinated by the idea of Robinson Crusoe. I was given the book as a gift when I was very young, and I must have read it more than twenty times. 'El Eternauta,' initially, was my version of Robinson. The loneliness of man, surrounded, imprisoned […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black and white comic panel: close-up of a man's face, covered by a mask similar to a diving mask (oval glass) or a gas mask, while what appears to be snow is falling. His expression, wide-eyed, is one of fear, or amazement. The thinking balloon reads: "Pero... ¿y eso?".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

That second speech balloon would look great on a T-shirt... (He is talking to Doom, in case there was any doubt). 🖼️ 'Fantastic Four' (1993), by Tom DeFalco, Paul Ryan 🔗 apaneladay.com/fantastic-four-thing #Marvel #FantasticFour #comics

Comic panel: A big man with rock skin (the Marvel Comics character The Thing) is trapped in shackles, arms stretched out in a cross, head cocked to one side. His speech balloon reads: "After al the times we fought and all of the misery you caused... I'd sooner stick my face in an unflushed toilet than trust it ta you!".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

"Reed drifts in dimensional space… It is both weird and beautiful." —Jack Kirby, in a margin note on the original collage for page 14 of Fantastic Four #51 🖼️ 'Fantastic Four' (1966), by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (original collage by Kirby) 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Original art of a full comic page collage. The drawn part is a man floating in the void, in the centre of the image. He is dressed in blue, wearing an astronaut's helmet, boots and a belt with a cartridge pouch. He is seen from behind. The collage part is cut-outs of planets and circular and concentric figures, with rocky shapes at the top and bottom of the image. A note in the upper margin reads: "Original collage used in FF comics". Another note, in the lower margin, reads: "Reed drifts in dimensional space… It is both weird and beautiful".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

"When Koike presents a page in tiers, we get something close to cinematic, but while the camera moves around a room to show its subject, with enough continuity to suggest a perspective moving, there is still enough variation to show he is not just imitating […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A comic (manga) page in black and white, with a sequence of four horizontal panels depicting, from top to bottom, the same scene from different angles. The scene shows a young man sitting on a sofa with his head leaning back (a forlorn posture, as if dejected or tired), in a large room. Behind him, a window reveals the skyscrapers of a big city (at night). The floor of the room is littered with empty bottles, boxes, cans and other objects.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

Rising from the sewer… One of the most iconic Wolverine panels of all time, with Claremont and Byrne at their best, but also with the amazing work (here and throughout the whole saga) of least remembered, but equally great, inker Terry Austin. 🖼️ Uncanny […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel in colour: A man with his face covered by a mask (part of a yellow and blue superhero costume) and three metal claws on his knuckles (the Marvel comics character Wolverine) emerges from a sewer with an expression of rage and revenge, crossed by shadow lines in a grid pattern. The speech balloon reads: "Okay, suckers-- you've taken yer best shot! Now it's my turn!".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

"Craig’s crime noir style drew influences from Will Eisner and Milton Caniff and made him the ‘master of suggestion’. In Craig’s stories, the killings, horror and other gruesome acts mostly happened off screen, leaving much to the reader’s imagination. His […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

"Cities are fascinating because they are the result of collective effort and energy of humans coming together., but they grow organically even when you try to plan them ahead of time [...]. They’ll escape that and they’ll just kind of grow on their own. I’m […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Black and white comic panel: General shot from above of a city at the end of the 1920s. Large avenues converging in a sort of large square, monumental buildings, trams, pedestrians and some cars.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

"If you have a good story, the action will present itself, but if the action comes and you haven’t earn it, and the emotions are not there, it’s just toys playing together." —John Cassaday, interviewed in Lo Spazio Bianco (2017) 🖼️ Astonishing X-Men (2004) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: Close-up of a young woman's face. From her calm, self-absorbed expression, she seems to be recalling good memories with a nostalgia that is not excessively melancholic, but rather serene, pleasant.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

"Jean-Luc [Masbou] has maintained the same high standards right up to the end, and they have even increased from volume to volume. There’s something unique about his style, a special magic that draws you into the drawing and takes you on a journey with the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A sailboat (in the foreground) sails in the wake of another, larger sailboat (in the background), in the ocean, towards the setting sun. The speech balloon (from the nearest ship) reads: "Les méchants ne sauraient triompher. Justice sera faite!".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

"Jean had settled in Venice, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where he conceived the story of ‘Venise céleste.’ In February, in the snow, he had come to open an exhibition in the City of the Doges [...] and he had drawn for me, without thinking about it, a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: A person wearing a hat places an object over a kind of large spiral cone. Rays of light emanate from the object. The cone is, in turn, held by larger hands, like a replica of the person's own hands, as in a double plane. The scene takes place between columns, in a dark environment, with shadows and bluish and violet colours.

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

"By stepping outside the confines of the established superhero universes, I was able to find my own distinctive voice [...]. ‘Moonshadow’ set me free as a writer, and I brought that freedom with me when I stepped back into the Marvel/DC universes. There […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel in painted artwork (colour): A boy dancing in a field while an old man watches him. The caption reads: "The monstrous crying of wind?".

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A Panel A Day @apaneladay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024

"The Elektra Saga remains one of the titanic Daredevil stories [...], a redefining arc that set its hero on a darker, more mythical course that is still being felt today. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson reshape Daredevil’s world into a story of innocent love […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Comic panel: Graphic, very vertical image. A masked man (Bullseye) stabs a woman (Elektra), skewering her through the chest and raising her above the ground. Bullseye holds the sword in both hands while smiling sadistically.

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