Welcome!

This site is dedicated to gathering all of the Internet’s comic book annotations and bibliographies in one place.

Thanks to Wizard Magazine, who back in the mid-2000’s “recommended checking out” this “wonderful site”. Thanks, Wizard!

Also thank you to the over 170,000 unique visitors to the site! The site’s been visited by over 125 different domains, including Iceland, Nigeria, Egypt, Cyprus, Ireland, Bangladesh, China, Qatar, Sweden, Ethiopia, Chile, Indonesia, etc.  Thanks for all the support, and I’m glad you like the site.

Why do I do this?

  1. Because I really enjoy annotations and bibliographies.
  2. Because my brother has put together some truly amazing bibliographies for Mike Carey, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Kevin Smith, and Matt Wagner and he needed a place to share them.
  3. Because they’re hard to find — many annotations and bibliographies are dispersed throughout the web, hard to search for, and a whole bunch originated only on old-style newsgroups like rec.art.comics.misc, rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, or alt.comics.batman (or a host of others). Without doing an extensive search, it’s nearly impossible to know they’re even out there.

 

Site News and Updates

2017 Updates

April 19th update completed.  The first update to the site in nearly 3 years!!!  Changes:

  1. Migrated site from Frontpage (if you can believe it) to WordPress, for two reasons:  1) I can now make changes to the site (!), and 2) the pages should be mobile friendly.  Over time I’ll likely migrate many of the pages to the new template, but for now it’s just the major ones.  Let’s hope I didn’t break anything — and please definitely let me know if I did.
  2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas — now updated through January of 2017!

2014 Updates

Dec 11th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Joe Linton is definitely into Alan Moore (as so many are!).  He’s now doing annotations for Moore’s new Crossed plus One Hundred comic.  You can find it here, as well as on the Alan Moore Annotations page.

Oct 25th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.
  2. Joe Linton is doing a really cool job annotating Alan Moore’s Splash Brannigan. You can find it here, as well as on the Alan Moore Annotations page.

Feb 17th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

 

2013 Updates

Sep 5th update completed.  Changes:

  1. LONG time between updates.  Sorry about that.
  2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.
  3. Richard Arndt’s second book is out!  Titled “The Star Reach Companion” and published by TwoMorrows Publishing, it includes information from some of his checklists plus other cool stuff.  Here are the links to buy it online, or get it at your local bookstore:  eBay, Barnes & Noble & Amazon.

Jan 21st update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt’s book is due out next week!  Titled “Horror Comics in Black and White: A History and Catalog, 1964-2004” and published by McFarland & Co., it includes information from some of his checklists plus other cool stuff.  Here are the links to buy it online, or get it at your local bookstore:  eBay, Barnes & Noble, Barnes & Noble Nook, Amazon, Amazon Kindle.

 

2012 Updates

Dec 2nd update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Aug 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

May 5th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.
  2. Matt Peckham has written annotations for Mike Cary’s The Unwritten, issue #1.

Jan 7th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

 

2011 Updates

Oct 30th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Richard Arndt has a book contract!  Tentatively titled “Black Days, Darker Nights: The Twenty Year History of the Black & White Horror Magazines“, it will include information from some of his checklists (plus other stuff).  For this reason, Richard has asked me to take a few of his checklists down.  Be on the lookout for the book!
  2. Thanks to John Thorpe, who pointed me to updated web pages for all of Jonathan Woodward’s annotations.  The links are now correct.

Sep 25th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!!  Keith Smith updated his amazing 200+ page (!) Eerie Index (Word doc filehere) with info from Mike Howlett’s book The Weird World of Eerie Publications.  The index now has complete story and art credits (including the real identity of cover artist Bill Alexander).
  2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.
  3. Fixed links to the Sandman annotations.

Jun 18th update completed.  Changes:

  1. BIG NEWS!!  Jess Nevins has updated his written annotations for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 3, Chapter 1 (a.k.a. Century 1910).  As with all of his stuff, it’s mirrored here on the site. 
  2. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Mar 6th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.

Jan 8th update completed.  Changes:

  1. Loaded latest updates to all the bibliographies written by Michael Karpas.
  2. Updated Richard Arndt’s Complete Skywald Checklist (Word doc version)!

 

Updates from Prior Years