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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 18:48:41 GMT -5
Joe Jusko did a series of recreations/ his iterations of Marvel's corner boxes about a year ago... There's a little buzz about the corner boxes as a couple of artists have been discussing them after comic artist Mark Brooks publicly offered to do the art for free if Marvel were to bring these back and use them on their books. -M
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Post by MDG on Feb 9, 2021 20:16:52 GMT -5
Joe Jusko did a series of recreations/ his iterations of Marvel's corner boxes about a year ago... There's a little buzz about the corner boxes as a couple of artists have been discussing them after comic artist Mark Brooks publicly offered to do the art for free if Marvel were to bring these back and use them on their books. -M More than a year, 'cause a dealer had been selling prints of these--the ones on the top row anyway--for a couple years before covid at local shows. The prints are actually pretty nice--about 24" high and on heavy board.
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Post by berkley on Feb 9, 2021 21:13:14 GMT -5
Personally I don't like seeing most of those later characters given a 12-cent-era box: they're from a different era, and several of them from a time when Marvel was a very different kind of company, and producing an inferior product. So if Marvel did decide to use them, I would see it as a cynical attenpt to associate the current Marvel with a time when they were creatively freer and more innovative.
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Post by MDG on Feb 12, 2021 13:56:15 GMT -5
Sorting through books and this struck me: most Dell TV tie-in books list the actors pictured on the cover. This is the only one I’ve seen where they use the character names.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 19, 2021 18:04:35 GMT -5
I'd forgotten that there was a Batman/Jon Sable book that Grell was working on in the mid-80s that never quite happened. I'm not generally a fan of inter-company books, but that one I might have liked.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 20, 2021 22:09:10 GMT -5
Why does Meyer Meyer have hair? The back that he's bald is his one of his defining characteristics in the books.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 21, 2021 23:17:35 GMT -5
Why does Meyer Meyer have hair? The back that he's bald is his one of his defining characteristics in the books. Norman Fell doesn't shave his head for anyone....not even Mrs Roper!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 22, 2021 8:12:33 GMT -5
yeah, but the character is suppose to be bald... says it every time he's introduced. I actually didn't realize that's who it was... kinda neat!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2021 3:01:19 GMT -5
The Library of Congress initiated and organized this Zoom conference discussing Ken Quattro's Invisible Men, his history of black comic creators. Joining in were Congresswoman Sheila Jackson (who is the daughter of Ezra Jackson profiled in the book), Dr. Carla Harden (who is the Librarian of Congress), and others...
-M
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2021 8:27:48 GMT -5
The Society of Illustrators also had a webconference on Invisible Men a couple week ago:
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 23, 2021 12:17:15 GMT -5
Least Convincing Justification for a Comics Character's Name: (from RINGO KID WESTERN #1, 1954, art by Joe Maneely
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 23, 2021 13:39:21 GMT -5
Least Convincing Justification for a Comics Character's Name: (from RINGO KID WESTERN #1, 1954, art by Joe Maneely Guess it sounded better than the Whramo Kid or Kid Sprango.
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 23, 2021 14:19:46 GMT -5
Guess it sounded better than the Whramo Kid or Kid Sprango. Your comment made me seek out this: Dick "Kid" Sprang(o) doing a rare Western (from REAL FACT COMICS #18), in which Billy Breckenridge pursues...John Ringo!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 25, 2021 11:16:50 GMT -5
I've been reading through the various nominees for the Kirby Awards of 1985 (those I have access to). I thought about a thread, but I'm mostly just throwing stuff out in existing threads. A couple of weird things, sticking out for books from 1984...
The Cloak & Dagger mini-series was nominated for Best Finite Series. This is despite the fact that all four issues appeared in 1983. Issue #4 was cover dated Jan. '84 but came out in October of '83. This will become important in a minute.
Crisis on Infinite Earths won the Best Finite Series. Issue #1 was cover dated Apr. '85. There's some dispute as to when the first issue hit the stands with some sources saying Dec. '84 and some saying Jan. '85. If it's the former then the book won based on one issue, but that means that C&D probably shouldn't have qualified. If the latter then Crisis should have been ineligible.
Camelot 3000 was also nominated for Best Finite Series. It looks like issues 10 and 11 actually appeared in '84 while 11 & 12 were cover dated in '84. It only took 2 1/2 years for the twelve issues to come out.
I'm not sure it means much. It just seems incredibly arbitrary.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 25, 2021 18:50:45 GMT -5
That first Cloak & Dagger mini-series was good, but less interesting than the duo's earlier appearances in Spectacular Spider-Man IMHO. I think Bill Mantlo was a really underrated writer though.
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