Michel Fiffe

Hell yeah, the fever spreads…

It’s a pretty but rarely talked about era. He added subtlety and restraint to his tool box.

I’ve abused this trait to the best of my ability

YouTube video by Michel Fiffe Fiffe Files · Keith Giffen Part 3: 80s Marvel, New Justice League, Return to Legion, and Invasion!

Have I got an episode for you youtu.be/tUZOuQ8SQ0M?...

Fiffe Files thumbnail for the 4th episode of a Keith Giffen video retrospective serialized on YouTube. The thumbnail art features Chameleon Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes, as the episode focuses on that series’ “Five Years Later” arc.

FIFFE FILES • Part 4 • This is the big one, the visual identity of Five Years Later examined. It’s entirely possible that this video project was an excuse for me to discuss and give context to this exact period of Keith Giffen’s career: youtu.be/X9mT9ras6y0?...

HULK 199 / 200 reprints from Spain

Hulk 199 / 200 reprints from Spain

Childhood comics inspired by Spectacular Spider-Man 158

Avengers reprint / splash page

From learning storytelling fundamentals thru Spanish reprints to finding inspiration as a student of comics, Sal Buscema has always been a staple in my appreciation of the art form. Here are some of my favorites, a humble fraction of an immense career. The Silver Age curtains are drawing close. RIP

Our overseas distributor’s contact info is in the listing, they take care of UK orders: holyinkcomics [at] gmail [dot] com

Finally

CREATING COPRA by @michelfiffe.bsky.social . In it he shares his process behind his self-published comic series Copra, which he launched over 10 years ago. Michel started out with a monthly schedule and maintained it every since. No small feat considering he was producing a colored comic.

Fiffe Files thumbnail, featuring Darksied, for the first episode of a multi-part Keith Giffen video retrospective.

Fiffe Files thumbnail, featuring Ambush Bug, for the second episode of a multi-part Keith Giffen video retrospective.

Fiffe Files thumbnail, featuring Batman, for the third episode of a multi-part Keith Giffen video retrospective.

I’m at the halfway mark of my massive Keith Giffen video retrospective! It’s a thorough, casual, chronological flip-thru of every last bit of artwork he drew, from the mega hits to the rare & obscure. 5 decades in 6 episodes LET’S GO:

youtube.com/@michelfiffe...

Update ‘26

Killer comics list at the @nytimes.com — thanks for the nod @samthielman.com
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They ship worldwide last I heard.
Or have your LCS try to order it.
Or wait until you come across it in the dollar bins one day

Check with Floating World in Portland, fairly positive they’ll be carrying it.

Tetsuo Shima from Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA

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Annihilator by Josh Simmons. Great writing and art, fully realized settings, confident pacing, vibrant colors balancing its grim core.

Heavy duty cartooning, proving that a blood-soaked vigilante story doesn’t have to be boring, homogenous dogshit.

Nicely printed by Mansion Press.

Recommended.

This was a fun panel — I recall covering tons of stuff that I’ve never discussed… pre-COPRA dreams and beefs and highs and lows. Glad it was recorded!

Thank you, John! 🙏

F • A • S • H • I • O • N

George Michael and friend 🕶️🚕💔

COPRA R8 is out! Thank you forever: Kat, O, Adam, Jason, Tucker, Tom, the stores, the festivals, the podcasts, Image, Bergen, Squad fans, art comic enthusiasts. You stuck with me for a decade plus, fifty issues of the most loving revenge comics. My appreciation for your attention knows no bounds.

Rose City ComicCon! Met old friends and new readers, signed books and sold art, finally put faces to internet names; my return to Portland was a gas.

I am nothing if not terrible at remembering to take pics of these interactions, so here’s a Batman sketch instead.

Stan Sakai’s USAGI YOJIMBO

Dr. Jacoby, as played by Russ Tamblyn, from the hit television series Twin Peaks, created by Mark Frost & David Lynch.

Sam Kieth. Wolverine. What other topics of conversation do you even need

AZBAT 🌹 🙏 🌹

Ogami Ittō & Daigorō from Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima's masterpiece LONE WOLF & CUB.

Warlock • Bill Sienkiewicz design

Sept. 4 – COPRA ROUND 8 marks the end of MICHEL FIFFE’s long-running, idiosyncratic superhero series. Fiffe will be signing the new collection at Floating World before Rose City Comiccon, as well as the super limited edition subscriber variants of Copra 46-49!