Labor Day Comic Book Covers, Labour Day, International Workers' Day, May Day

[Stoic Man-migration]

In Memorium: Labor Day Comic Book Covers, September 5, 2011, ?th Anniversary Tribute

 

Post your Labor Day comic Book Covers, plz. Thx. l.

 

Meanwhile . . .

 

In Memorian: 9/11 Comic Book Covers, September 9, 2001, 10th Anniversary Tribute

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5057989#Post5057989

 

ZOMBIES: DEFINING A GENERATION Z - Stoic Man

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5041814&fpart=1

 

FLIPTASTIC! A Tale of Woe, Intrigue, and Duplicity NOW with easy tabs!!

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=4&Number=5054976&Searchpage=1&Main=233191&Words=&topic=0&Search=true#Post5054976

 

OT: What are you listening to as you read the forums tonight?

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=4&Number=5029572&Searchpage=3&Main=163952&Words=Stoic+Man&topic=0&Search=true#Post5029572

 

The American Music Thread

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5044183&fpart=88

 

Great British Music

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=9&Number=5029527&Searchpage=3&Main=213885&Words=Stoic+Man&topic=0&Search=true#Post5029527

 

Great music neither British or American

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=9&Number=5044236&Searchpage=2&Main=230200&Words=Stoic+Man&topic=0&Search=true#Post5044236

 

London Riots Continue for Third Night

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=9&Number=5031052&Searchpage=3&Main=231139&Words=Stoic+Man&topic=0&Search=true#Post5031052

[Stoic Man-migration]

 

Labor Day and the Cost Of Doing Business in Comics

by Glenn Hauman on September 6th, 2010 at 8:28 pm

 

Five hundred dollars.

 

When people talk about putting

regular, old-fashioned comic books online, keep that $500 in mind.

 

That’s about how much it costs for an average page of comic book art, in terms of labor.

Figure $100 for the writer, $150 for the penciller, $130 for the inker,

$90 for the colorist, and $30 for the letterer. Those numbers go up and

down depending on talent and publishers, but that’s a nice round number for us to work with.

 

More here:

 

http://www.comicmix.com/news/2010/09/06/labor-day-and-the-cost-of-doing-business-in-comics/

 

:idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:

 

Labor Days, Vol. 1

Labor Days v1 - Philip Gelatt • Rick Lacy

 

Benton "Bags" Bagswell is doing nothing with his life. He runs a chores-for-hire business in London and that's about it.

That is, until the day his girlfriend dumps him, and he finds himself in possession of a mysterious videotape.

Thrust into a dangerous world of deceit and betrayal, it's up to Bags to pack up his, erm, suitcase and hit the road in search of the truth!

 

It's globe-trotting hijinks as our unlikely hero tries to grow out of his slacker life-style and bring some new world style to

old world Europe all the while digging deeper into the enigma that's blown up his former existence!

Format: Original Graphic Novel, 6x9" - Trade Paperback

Content Rating: T (Teen)

Street Date: Jan 10, 2010

Diamond™ Order Code: AUG08 4229

 

Labor Days, Vol. 2

Labor Days v2 Just Another Damn Day

 

In this globe-trotting comedic misadventure, Benton "Bags" Bagswell, charming loser, drunken prognosticator, and loutish every-man,

has decided to track down the Face of History, shadowy leader of a vast conspiracy. To do this, Bags has enlisted the help of an

expanding cast of odd-balls and misfits, including his troubled girlfriend Victoria and the ever-over-the-top spy Rick Stryker.

But the closer they get to a final confrontation, the closer Bags comes to realizing that fate has more in store than any of them could

anticipate and that he might not be the hero of this story at all.

 

Format: Original Graphic Novel, 6x9" - Trade Paperback

Content Rating: O (Older Audiences)

Street Date: Jan 29, 2010

Diamond™ Order Code: JUL09 1009

ISBN: 978-1-934964-22-4

 

Lay Bo Daze

 

At NYC Comic Con the toiling Dukes of Labor Days tower, (which looks like this)

 

http://labordayscomic.blogspot.com/

The gist of it is this:

http://labordayscomic.blogspot.com/search/label/What%20is%20LD%3F

[Ogami]

Happy Labor Day, Luxxxxxxx.

[Mr.Diggler]

[Stoic Man-migration]

 

It would seem that there is a dearth of Labor Day comic book covers.

 

I'd like to expand the catagory to include comic book covers that feature Constuctivist-style covers,

(Think old Russian/Soviet posters extolling the virtues of labor.)

 

 

Hey, I'd settle for Socialist Realism comic book covers.

 

I wonder if Shepard Fairey has done any comic covers.

I'll bet he's been swiped from, though.

 

"Andre the Giant has a Posse" (Obey)

"Hope" (Obama poster)

Rock the Vote

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

 

Watchmen

 

Transformers

 

Army of Darkness

 

Nick Fury

 

 

Shepard Fairey’s homage to influential Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein.

 

Shepard Fairey’s variant cover for Orchid, the debut comic by Rage Against the Machine guitarist and

Audioslave frontman Tom Morello and artist Scott Hepburn for Dark Horse.

 

Self-plagerism

[Stoic Man-migration]

Batman: The Long Halloween, #12, (November 1997)

 

[Stoic Man-migration]

Slave Labor Graphics (SLG)

[Stoic Man-migration]

Marvel - Daredevil: Love's Labors Lost, 1 issue, September 2002

 

Andrews McMeel - I Thought Labor Ended When the Baby Was Born [baby Blues Scrapbook] 1 issue, March 1994

 

Commercial Comics - Joe Worker and the Story of Labor, 1 issue, 1946

Interior - http://www.myspace.com/fw_sparrow/photos/albums/album/790220

 

 

Labor Comics - Labor Comics, (italian Marvel reprints) 7 issues, Ottobre 1985 - Luglio 1986

 

Blackthorne Publishing, Inc. - Labor Force, 8 issues, September 1986 - August 1987

http://www.comics.org/series/20330/covers/

 

 

Hamster Press - Labors of Love, 1 issue, 1994

Hamster Press - Labors of Love -- Expanded Edition, 1 issue, 2000

 

Slave Labor - Slave Labor Stories, 4 issues, February 1992 - November 1992

 

Slave Labor - Slave Labor Stories [Free Comic Book Day Edition] 1 issue, 2003

 

Slave Labor - Slave Labor Stories [Free Comic Book Day] 1 issue, July 2004

 

[Stoic Man-migration]

Boy's Life - Sept. 1958

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2008/09/lessons-in-boys-life-labour-day.html

 

[Whizzer]

Interesting that there is a Lichtenstein homage in there, as some might say he profited from the labour of others by plagiarising their work

[Stoic Man-migration]

Labour Day began in Canada as an annual event commemorating the 1872 Toronto Printer's Strike and John A. MacDonald's repeal of anti-labour legislation. The U.S. labour movement copied the Canadian example and Grover Cleveland made it an official holiday in the 'States by 1887, choosing the first Monday in September because anarchists and socialists preferred May 1st.

 

 

The image above is from a comic book called Joe Worker, published by the "National Labor Service, USA" and Commercial Comics. It is illustrated by Jack Alderman, a Canadian cartoonist "who did work for more than 15 companies in the 1940s," according to information dug up by Tom Christopher. Christopher's site is well worth exploring for a look at rare propaganda comics with a labour theme.

 

http://www.tomchristopher.com/?op=home/Comic%20History/Labor%20Day%20and%20Labor-Related%20Comics

[Stoic Man-migration]

Network of Disclosure vs. American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations,

(AFL-CIO)

Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers International Union

 

[chromium]

Network of Disclosure

 

Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers International Union

 

[Stoic Man-migration]

More Fun Comics #49, DC, January 1939, Santa’s elves on strike for better pay.

 

 

[VintageComics]

Louis, you are one of a kind.

 

(thumbs u

[TupennyConan]

He's brilliant.

[VintageComics]

He's brilliant.

 

Agreed. Ratio of quality to quantity when it comes to post count is off the charts.

 

I think his essay about the evolution of romance comics might be the best thing ever posted here.

 

Did you see that?

[TupennyConan]

He's brilliant.

 

Agreed. Ratio of quality to quantity when it comes to post count is off the charts.

 

I think his essay about the evolution of romance comics might be the best thing ever posted here.

 

Did you see that?

 

I have been working the search function for the past ten minutes trying to find it.

 

I have already sent a PM.

 

lol

[Stoic Man-migration]

Santa's elves go on strike on Will Eisner's cover to

P.S. Magazine: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly #157 (1965)

 

[TupennyConan]

I'm almost certain that the romance essay was posted by IIII.