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Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: fcbd, february 2024, flash gordon, gatchaman, mad cave, SolicitsMad Cave Studios is launching their new Flash Gordon and Gathaman series with Free Comic Book Day for the 4th of May 2024.Article Summary Mad Cave Studios debuts Flash Gordon & Gatchaman series on Free Comic Book Day, 4th May 2024. Gatchaman #0 kickstarts the iconic franchise's monthly comic series, tackling social and environmental issues. Flash Gordon #0 races to stop Ming the Merciless…

New suggests that Ice Age cave art was partly influenced by pareidolia, a phenomenon where humans see meaningful shapes in random patterns. Focusing on caves in Northern Spain, the study found that many images incorporated natural features of the cave walls, indicating that artists were influenced by both pareidolia and their creativity. The research also explored the role of lighting conditions and advances our understanding of the experiences and influences of Upper Palaeolithic artists. (Artist’s concept)Recent…

A cave in Jerusalem's western hills might have once been a divine prophecy site where Roman-era gentiles attempted to communicate with the dead.Three skulls and more than 100 ceramic lamps were found squeezed into the cave's crevices, and two archaeologists in Israel speculate in a new paper that these were likely used to conjure up dead spirits and their secrets – a practice known as necromancy.The Te'omim Cave has been studied since 1873, and experts have long suspected that the spring water that flows through the…

By Christopher Baggett Mad Cave Studios has a packed schedule of San Diego Comic-Con signings, the publisher recently announced. Located at SDCC booth #2806, Mad Cave will have a number of convention-exclusive variants for books like Exorcists Never Die, You’ve Been Cancelled and Hunt. Kill Repeat. The booth will also have a number of signings and giveaways, as well as a Brainy Smurf meet and greet on Saturday.  Mad Cave Studios at San Diego Comic-Con International 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  JULY 12, 2023, PITTSBURGH,…

Finds from L. 3049: oil lamps found underneath the upper part of a human skull (frontal and parietal bones) (photo: B. Zissu under the Te'omim Cave Archaeological Project). Credit: Harvard Theological Review (2023). DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000214 A pair of archaeologists, one with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the other from Bar-Ilan University, has found evidence of Roman-era necromancy practices in a cave in Israel. In…

Big news today as King Features Syndicate and Mad Cave Studios announce a major publishing deal that will bring back the vintage Alex Raymond character Flash Gordon in a big way in 2024, in time for the character’s 90th birthday. The deal – described as a “master publishing partnership” – will see a combination of reprints, new material, plus an additional younger readers publishing line via Mad Cave Studio’s middle-grade imprint Papercutz. According to the press release: “King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and…

Last month Mad Cave Studios announced a partnership with writer/director Amit Tishler to produce multiple new series and graphic novels. Now the first of those projects has been revealed, as Mad Cave will publish Edenfrost from writer Tishler, artist Bruno Frenda, and letterer Taylor Esposito later this year. The four-issue historical fiction series tells the tale of a pair of Jewish children during the Russian Civil War. Here’s how Mad Cave describes Edenfrost: After losing their parents in a pogrom, teenage siblings…

Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. Credit: Kristina Thomsen, CC-BY 4.0Finger marks on a cave wall in France were created prior to the arrival of Homo sapiens in the region.According to a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE by Jean-Claude Marquet and colleagues from the University of Tours, France, the oldest engravings made by Neanderthals have been discovered on a cave wall in France.Over the past few decades, research has shed light on the cultural…

It’s now consensus that Neanderthals were complex, social cousins of Homo sapiens that disappeared from the Earth around 40,000 years ago. But our lost relatives just became more complex, with the discovery of ancient cave engravings in France that appear to be their handiwork.Stay in Your Seats, It's Gonna Be a Bumpy Flight | Extreme EarthThe engravings sit in La Roche-Cotard, a cave about 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of Tours. The figures—which are comprised of parallel lines made by fingers dragged across the cave…

Over 57,000 years ago, a group of Paleolithic humans stood in a cave beneath the French countryside, pressing their fingers against the rock, dragging them against the soft, chalky rock of the cave, turning it into a living canvas. The story they were trying to tell is unknown, but this discovery marks the oldest Neanderthal art that humanity has ever discovered. A new study on the cave drawings has been published in PLOS One, detailing more about the engravings as they appear in the cave. The cave where…