Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 7:29:39 GMT -5
CBR article
Michelinie talks a bit about his start in the business, his move to Marvel, his IRon Man and Spidey runs and the Bozz Chronicles.
One tidbit that caught my eye....
Having just read Star Hunters, I am pretty sure that is the series in question, so the artist he mentions would be Rich Buckler-the series was set to continue after Michelinie left with Gerry Conway writing and Buckler still on art, but the DC Implosion hit and the book was cancelled. I am trying to figure out what the "major prop" was...maybe the new spaceship the crew got?
And perhaps this should be part of our Swipes conversation too...
I've always liked (but not loved) Michelinie's stuff, and I am digging his DC stuff right now (Claw, Star Hunters and the start of Starfire-2 issues before he left replaced by Elliot Maggin) but I have never checked out the Bozz Chronicles. Always saw it and wondered what it was about, and reading Michelinie's description, it sounds interesting, but...Brett Blevins art...
-M
Michelinie talks a bit about his start in the business, his move to Marvel, his IRon Man and Spidey runs and the Bozz Chronicles.
One tidbit that caught my eye....
How did you end up moving from DC to Marvel, which happened in the late 1970's?
That was the result of one of my first Great Disappointments in my comics career. I had created a series for DC that had been troubled from the start--I don't believe it ever had more than two issues in a row by the same art team. At one point a new design for a major prop was needed, and the current artist submitted several original drawings and one Xeroxed design. The originals weren't very imaginative (they turned out to have been drawn by the artist's assistant), but the Xerox was pretty cool, so we went with that. After the first issue using that design had gone to print, it was discovered that the xerox had been of an animation cell from a Saturday morning cartoon show! So basically the series that I had worked so hard to create and make original was using a line-for-line theft from a TV show.
I made my anger known to DC and was told that the artist would be replaced. But I was asked not to tell anyone until the art for the current issue was finished. When the last page of art came in, I asked my editor who the new artist would be, and he told me they had decided to keep the current guy, knowing that if that happened I would quit. This showed me that DC, at least at the time, valued a dishonest (and lazy) artist over a writer who had given them unquestioned loyalty for five years. I called Jim Shooter at Marvel and asked if I could get work there; his reply was, "Would today be too soon?"
That was the result of one of my first Great Disappointments in my comics career. I had created a series for DC that had been troubled from the start--I don't believe it ever had more than two issues in a row by the same art team. At one point a new design for a major prop was needed, and the current artist submitted several original drawings and one Xeroxed design. The originals weren't very imaginative (they turned out to have been drawn by the artist's assistant), but the Xerox was pretty cool, so we went with that. After the first issue using that design had gone to print, it was discovered that the xerox had been of an animation cell from a Saturday morning cartoon show! So basically the series that I had worked so hard to create and make original was using a line-for-line theft from a TV show.
I made my anger known to DC and was told that the artist would be replaced. But I was asked not to tell anyone until the art for the current issue was finished. When the last page of art came in, I asked my editor who the new artist would be, and he told me they had decided to keep the current guy, knowing that if that happened I would quit. This showed me that DC, at least at the time, valued a dishonest (and lazy) artist over a writer who had given them unquestioned loyalty for five years. I called Jim Shooter at Marvel and asked if I could get work there; his reply was, "Would today be too soon?"
Having just read Star Hunters, I am pretty sure that is the series in question, so the artist he mentions would be Rich Buckler-the series was set to continue after Michelinie left with Gerry Conway writing and Buckler still on art, but the DC Implosion hit and the book was cancelled. I am trying to figure out what the "major prop" was...maybe the new spaceship the crew got?
And perhaps this should be part of our Swipes conversation too...
I've always liked (but not loved) Michelinie's stuff, and I am digging his DC stuff right now (Claw, Star Hunters and the start of Starfire-2 issues before he left replaced by Elliot Maggin) but I have never checked out the Bozz Chronicles. Always saw it and wondered what it was about, and reading Michelinie's description, it sounds interesting, but...Brett Blevins art...
-M
