Paul Fricke
@opauloart.bsky.social
MCAD Comics prof • Alex Toth In Depth & COMIX CRUSH program host • Blood Orange comic https://www.newdaynoir.com/ https://linktr.ee/opaulo
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Minnesota Comic Book Association@mncbaorg.bsky.social · 3d agoMNCBA FallCon 2026 🎤 PANEL ROOM SATURDAY 12:00PM "All About Alex Toth - Master of Design, Comics & Cartoon Art" with Paul Fricke @opauloart.bsky.social Read more: www.mncba.org/archive/MNCB... All panel programming is FREE with your general admission ticket! #TwinCities #ComicCon
I’ve read it all by @louberney.bsky.social, but never one quite like this. It MOVES. It CHUGS. It ROCKS.
Sure, Comics are visual. But many letterforms derived from pictures, and one can read a comic sans words. It's all about Reading. See what I mean - watch COMIX CRUSH episode 1. SUBSCRIBE! youtu.be/ovN8Wwc_svI?... Title card page - Hawkeye 11, by Fraction, Aja, and Hollingsworth. © Marvel Comics.
Comics Is a Reading Medium - COMIX CRUSH ep 1
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New episode of Alex Toth In Depth! tinyurl.com/4jb4pd6z
In Discussion: Toth Panel - The Art Students League of New York - Alex Toth In Depth Episode 028
For this return episode of Alex Toth In Depth, I’m sharing a Toth panel, recorded in late April, 2026, a talk organized by Alex’s daughter, Dana, with the The Art Students League of New York, where Toth attended classes as a teen. This talk was moderated by Steven Walker, a comics instructor at the school, with the Panel of guests: Paul Fricke, Paul Rivoche, Mark Stanleigh, Mark Chiarello, and Rubén Procopio. The video of this talk was unfortunately lost, so I offered to present the audio via this program. +++ For a daily dose of Toth images, and updates on the program, Follow @tothcentric on Instagram. +++ Alex Toth In Depth is hosted by Paul Fricke, cartoonist and comics instructor at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design since 2012. Email: paul@opaulo.com +++ Links: • Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1180517 • Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf6mR... • The Art Students League of New York: https://www.artstudentsleague.org/ • Blood Orange comic - https://www.newdaynoir.com/ • Blood Orange instagram: / bloodorange. . • opaulo art & music Instagram: / opauloart • Prof Paul instagram - / profpaulcomix • https://linktr.ee/opaulo +++ Show bumper music - “Silver Summer” from the album “Hungarian Jazz Rhapsody” used with permission from Mihaly Borbely Quartet +++ Audio & video edits by Rudy Brumm - / funnygoofys. .
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Nate’s great. Tothally. Gonna be a top notch font 🤩
Nate Piekos of Blambot@blambot.bsky.social · last mo.I am honored to announce that in cooperation with the Toth family, I will be working on the official Alex Toth typeface in the coming months. The plan is for this to be a commercially available font via the official Toth estate. Stay tuned for updates.
Alex Toth in correspondence or in magazines would share art & storytelling tips, as he did here in a letter to artist, Ken Steacy, encouraging comics artists to compose panels utilizing silhouetted shapes of figures and objects, as he likely did with his own work. • 1984 • Ⓒ estate of Alex Toth
Zorro • Alex Toth • 1995 • The large triangle of the Zorro figure forms the foundation of this illustration. More about thinking than flaunting drawing ability. Bold. Strong. Confident. Doing more with less. • © Zorro Productions, Inc.
Friday, JOIN US in a vidtalk FREE to the public: Alex Toth: Legacy of a Comics Master +++ Paul Fricke, Ruben Procopio, Mark Stanleigh & Paul Rivoche on why Toth is considered an "artist's artist.” Presented by the Art Students League of New York, the art school which Toth attended in his youth.
