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Original artwork
Original Rob Liefeld pieces for Youngblood, Spawn, Deadpool and Cyberforce, plus auction finds with original John Byrne and Swamp Thing pages by Mike Hoffman.
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Comic Noize is a blog dedicated to comics culture — original artwork, auction finds, character history and the strange collector stuff that deserves a second look.
01 / Introduction
A working reader’s guide to the four-color hobby
Long-form posts about Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics and Timely Comics, written from the collector’s side of the table. Expect character histories (Namor, Wolverine, Batman), creator spotlights (Rob Liefeld, Brian Bolland, John Byrne, Art Adams, Dave Sim, Rick Veitch, Peter David, Larry Stroman, Mike Hoffman, Casey Antony, Joe Shuster, Allan Linder) and auction write-ups on original art and vintage oddities like 1970s DC sticker packs.
02 / What’s inside
Four corners of the hobby, one noisy little site
CHR
Character history
Long looks at why characters behave the way they do — from Namor wrecking cities to Wolverine as a 1994 novelty phone.
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Collecting culture
Sticker packs, cookbooks, costume comparisons across eras, and the market realities of putting original pages on the block.
Price-tag stories →SUB
Community finds
Readers send in comic-related finds and curiosities; the team curates what makes the cut for publication.
Send a submission →03 / Recent posts
From the front page
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Giveaway: Prisoner Of The Mind Boxset
Graphic novelist Allan Linder’s gritty neo-noir trade, set in the near future, came to the site as a reader-driven giveaway.
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HAPPY BONDAGE CHRISTMAS, JOE!
A look at Joe Shuster and the character work behind the name.
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Art Adams Career Missteps Are Still Pretty Good
On the uneven stretches of a celebrated illustrator’s career.
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Black Widow Without Black Widow
What happens to a character when the version you remember is gone.
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Original Rob Liefeld Artwork: Youngblood, Spawn, Deadpool, Cyberforce
Original boards from the Image years, offered for sale.
Comic Noize is a blog about comics culture, written from the perspective of the person who actually buys, reads, and files the issues. Long-form posts cover the publishers and eras that shaped the medium, from the Marvel Comics and DC Comics golden and bronze ages to the darker independent titles and the creator-driven work of Image Comics and Timely Comics. Expect character histories, creator spotlights, and the kind of auction and collection stories that only surface after years of pulling boxes from a basement closet.
The writing leans into character history and the arc of a series across decades, tracing how a character like Namor, Wolverine, or Batman changes shape with each artistic team that inherits him. Alongside that, there are dedicated creator spotlights on artists and writers whose influence is easy to underrate, including Rob Liefeld, Brian Bolland, John Byrne, Art Adams, Dave Sim, Rick Veitch, Peter David, Larry Stroman, Mike Hoffman, Casey Antony, and Joe Shuster. The tone is affectionate but not uncritical.
Not every post is about a single issue or character. Some pieces dig into missteps and miscalculations, the awkward eras and career detours that get quietly dropped from official retrospectives, and the reasons certain runs are remembered fondly while others are remembered as a phase. Other entries treat the hobby itself as the subject: how collectors talk about condition, value, and rarity, what a strange cover or an unexpected interior page can do to a book's appeal, and why a well-loved copy in poor shape sometimes matters more than a mint one.
There is a consistent undercurrent of enthusiasm for the weird corners of the medium: cult characters, surprise team-ups, kinky or bizarre story concepts, dead ends that deserved better, and the occasional fan favorite that never got its due. Titles and imagery pull from the language of fandom, celebrating characters and eras while acknowledging the moments that fell flat. The overall effect is a working reader's guide rather than a catalogue, part essay, part diary, part argument for keeping the good stuff in print and in circulation.
The site presents itself as a place to keep reading, with numbered section tags, generous spacing, and a visual arc that moves from bright editorial layouts into darker, moodier panels accented by dusty rose, olive, and gold. Textures of stars, mushrooms, and florals sit behind the copy at low opacity, keeping the words legible while giving the pages a slightly whimsical, tactile feel. The imagery suggests a physical collection: trades, archives, gift sets, and the calm pleasure of opening a box and finding something you forgot was there.
On Namor, the old-timey butt kicker — October 16, 2012: a character whose motivations are his own, and writers aren’t obligated to make him fit a mold.
04 / Voice
Comics,
comics,
comics
Casual, enthusiastic and occasionally loud about the things that made us fall for the medium in the first place.
05 / Browse
Tags, archives and submissions
Jump in wherever you like. Topic tags run from publishers to creators to individual characters, the archives run chronologically back to at least 2010, and readers are welcome to submit their own finds for curation.