NEW BATMAN BOOK : THE BATCAVE COMPANION Coming Out in April!

OK, I know it's about 2 months away but I'm really excited about a new book coming out by TwoMorrow's Publishing called THE BATCAVE COMPANION! The delays are over, and it’s finally in print! Michael Eury, the writer/editor of the critically acclaimed The Krypton Companion, and Michael Kronenberg, the designer of the eye-popping Spies, Vixens, and Masters of Kung Fu: The Art of Paul Gulacy, team up to explore the Silver and Bronze Ages of Batman comic books in The Batcave Companion! Two distinct sections of this book examine the Dark Knight’s progression from his campy “New Look” of the mid-1960s to his “creature of the night” reinvention of the 1970s. Features include issue-by-issue indexes, interviews with CARMINE INFANTINO, JOE GIELLA, DENNIS O’NEIL, and NEAL ADAMS, and guest essays by MIKE W. BARR and WILL MURRAY. Contributors include SHELDON MOLDOFF, LEN WEIN, STEVE ENGLEHART, and TERRY AUSTIN, with a special tribute to the late MARSHALL ROGERS. With its incisive introduction by Dennis O’Neil and its iconic cover painting by Neal Adams, The Batcave Companion is a must-have for every Bat-Fanatic & comics fan! It's due to be released around April 15th, 2009. Here's a link for more information:

BATMAN CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY GRAPHICS WALLPAPER

OK, this year I'm not really in the holiday spirit just yet but I know a lot of Bat-Fans probably are by now so I thought I would post this awesome BATMAN XMAS Desktop Background that was sent in by a Bat-Blog Reader. His name is Andrew & I really appreciate the effort he put into this cool wallpaper picture, it's an ART masterpiece! It uses some vintage-style graphics by Sheldon Moldoff...MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!! ( OK, I'm in the holiday spirit now, ha ha! ).

BATMAN BACKGROUND WALLPAPERS Original Comic Book Art

This morning I thought I would post 2 Batman Desktops I recently made using original comic book artwork I found on the internet. The 1st one is from the Golden Age of comics. This illustration was done by Sheldon Moldoff. I really love his style & the simplicity of his lines, great stuff! The next wallpaper is a graphic by a more modern day artist named Dustin Nguyen. You might recognize his style from the recent issues of Detective Comics. This picture is wonderful because it's sort of cartoon-like ( which is not his regular style ) & because it features a ton of Batman Villains: The Joker, Harley Quinn, Bane, The Penguin, Killer Croc, Scarface, Hush, Two-Face, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Man-Bat, Clayface, & many more!

BATMAN DESKTOP WALLPAPERS ( The Dark Knight & Original Art )

OK, today is "Wacky Wallpaper Wednesday" so I thought I would be nice & post THREE new wallpaper backgrounds instead of TWO...Ya' know, because I am so cool, ha ha. The 1st one is a large photo I found the other day that's pretty awesome. It's a "Behind-The-Scenes" look at filming "The Batman and Joker Interrogation Scene" from The Dark Knight movie. It shows Heath Ledger & Christian Bale acting & all the camera people standing around, a nice piece of Bat-History! ( RIP Heath ) The 2nd one is a piece of Original Art done by Sheldon Moldoff, a Golden Age creator. I seriously love that Batmobile car & it's also kinda neat to see the older version of Batwoman...nice. The 3rd desktop wallpaper is another piece of original art but more modern. It's a graphic with Batman, Hush, & Catwoman. It was done by Dustin Nguyen for the soon-to-be-released issue of Detective Comics # 350. I think it's done in watercolor or at least it has that effect. Please let me know which one is your favorite, enjoy!