Ampersand Comics: The Savage Sword of Gotham

Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Savage Sword of Gotham

I had forgotten I had taken this photo, but I found it today looking through the phone...

A little bit of context: this art piece is hanging in my local comic book shop, Gotham Comics. The owner, Tony, is a big fan of the 70's Conan series. One of the customers gave this to him for his birthday. I don't remember exactly off the top of my head what it says, but I think it is "Tony The Librarian versus an army of the undead" or something along those lines.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool, so I took a photo of it. Do note that this is old, Wednesday comics was still coming out in singles. Also pictured, Anita Blake.

3 comments:

Ryan K LindsayJune 3, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Aw, man, I'd love one of these for my classroom; The Savage Sword of Mr Lindsay. That'd strike fear into the hearts of the wicked.
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Matt DuarteJune 3, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Maybe I could get you in contact with the person that drew this? I know he's a regular at the LCS, though not sure who. I know he/she does commissions.
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Lucas el vaqueroDecember 13, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Hi there!
I did that cover, here's a better quality pic http://lucaselvaquero.blogspot.com/2010/01/savage-sword-of-gotham.html

It was Tony's present for his birthday last year.
I'm glad you guys like it!
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The Ampersand Manifesto

Note from the author: This original manifesto is terribly outdated, but I thought I'd leave it here for old time's sake.

The origin of this blog came about when I realized that my writing has become rather rusty. My literary muscles have grown weak and flabby and the only solution to it is to flex and exercise them, until they go back to their former state.

Everyone knows that you should write about what you love, and what I love is comics. I read them, I join discussions about them, I periodically hate them (and hate is just the flip side of love), so the decision to make a blog about comics came about rather easily.

My first thought was to do a weekly review of the comics that came out, but to be honest, there's plenty of other blogs that have been doing it for longer than I have and probably do it far better than I would. So instead I decided to write about what I am reading at the moment, whether it is old or new, good or bad, interesting or boring. I will try my very best to have one daily post or at least seven weekly posts.