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Post by tonebone on Jun 4, 2021 11:34:32 GMT -5
I was listening to a YouTube interview of Tom Palmer. Very interesting stuff, In one segment he talks about how Alex Raymond died. It turns out he was driving with Stan Drake in Drakes sports car with the top down and the weather became rainy. Drake survived the car skidding off the road but Raymond was impaled on the front of the cars Windshield. This is the subject of Dave Sims' The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which digs deep into his life and career and especially into his drawing techniques and why he used certain tools, etc. It revolves, of course, around the actual incident of his death.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 4, 2021 11:38:06 GMT -5
I'd seen the one image, the head-shot where the guy is pulling on the mask, but not the others. I like what Kirby did with it. The "mask" is actually the goose he is plucking in the previous panel... it's literally the skin of the goose, stretched across his face. Now, every time I see The Demon, I see yellow goose flesh on his face.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 4, 2021 11:40:39 GMT -5
I was listening to a YouTube interview of Tom Palmer. Very interesting stuff, In one segment he talks about how Alex Raymond died. It turns out he was driving with Stan Drake in Drakes sports car with the top down and the weather became rainy. Drake survived the car skidding off the road but Raymond was impaled on the front of the cars Windshield. This is the subject of Dave Sims' The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, which digs deep into his life and career and especially into his drawing techniques and why he used certain tools, etc. It revolves, of course, around the actual incident of his death. Wow. I heard that it might have been a suicidal act.
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Post by MDG on Jun 10, 2021 10:07:32 GMT -5
How did I go this long without knowing this existed?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2021 10:14:00 GMT -5
How did I go this long without knowing this existed? I'm not sure, but I didn't know it existed either until you posted it, for which I am very grateful. Now to see if I can ever find one in the wild and even then if I can afford it... -M
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 13, 2021 7:52:45 GMT -5
I don't remember whether I spotted this back in 1975, but it appears that Al Milgrom had Morlock 2001 murder Captain Kangaroo in the second issue of his Atlas/Seaboard comic:
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Post by tonebone on Jun 14, 2021 14:28:14 GMT -5
How did I go this long without knowing this existed? I'm not sure, but I didn't know it existed either until you posted it, for which I am very grateful. Now to see if I can ever find one in the wild and even then if I can afford it... -M I just flipped through this on Digital Comics Museum (all public domain comics)... all crime, no monsters, sadly. Classic marketing misdirection.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 14, 2021 14:32:24 GMT -5
Sigh...I used to have the original art from which that top panel came! I'm really liking Aparo's art in the series. In a less flashy way than Adams and Steranko, he's doing some new, "modern" things. I'm also spying a Williamson influence I hadn;t seen before, but that may partly be due to some of the costumes and sets.
I have one Aparo page, a real nice Phantom Stranger example that I think was part of the last bunch of original art I bought (at a con in 2000!) My ex had given me a Metal Men cover by him in the mid-80s (paid $65!) but I thought it was kind've bland, atypical Aparo and sold it to finance another purchase,
Aparo was a much better storyteller than Adams.
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Post by foxley on Jun 20, 2021 22:12:02 GMT -5
Just returned from the Supanova convention in Sydney. Only Australian guests this year (for obvious reasons), but I did get a chance to ask Nicola Scott a question about Black Magick that had been bugging me for a while.
I had heard a rumour that Rowan Black, the protagonist of the comic, had a different name until just before publication when it was pointed out she shared a name with an adult film star. Nicola cheerfully confirmed that this was 1000% true. She explained that Rowan had been named Victoria 'Vic' Black since Greg Rucka's earliest drafts. for plot reasons, it was important that she have at least androgynous nickname. (For those who haven't read Black Magick, in #1 Rowan (who is a cop) confronts a hostage taker who asks for him by name and then tries to kill her by setting fire to her. After he dies, she learns that the man's name was 'Rowan White', and this is the first indication she has that someone is screwi8ng with her. In the original draft, this character was named 'Vic White').
When #1 reached the final lettering approval--pretty much the last point anything can he alerted--Image's art director mentioned (not for the first time according to Nicola) that Victoria Black was the name of an adult film actress. Greg and Nicola both shrugged this off until he pointed out that she is the top result if you do an image search for 'Victoria Black', and that this might not be the best image to link to a book with a strong feminist bent.
Greg, Nicola and the editors did a hurried brainstorming session to come up with a new name, eventually going with Nicola's suggestion of Rowan: a name that Greg and Nicola now agree fits the character much better than Victoria.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 1, 2021 7:29:15 GMT -5
When this story from MYSTIC #19: was reprinted in MONSTERS UNLEASHED #3, the story title was relettered: blatantly swiping from one of the greatest comic book logos of the 70's:
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 1, 2021 9:36:46 GMT -5
I don't remember whether I spotted this back in 1975, but it appears that Al Milgrom had Morlock 2001 murder Captain Kangaroo in the second issue of his Atlas/Seaboard comic: Where, oh where, was Mr. Greenjeans to protect him?
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Post by brutalis on Jul 1, 2021 11:59:33 GMT -5
I don't remember whether I spotted this back in 1975, but it appears that Al Milgrom had Morlock 2001 murder Captain Kangaroo in the second issue of his Atlas/Seaboard comic: Where, oh where, was Mr. Greenjeans to protect him? Probably busy making Mister Moose Jerky and Bunny Rabbit stew? 😜
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Post by MDG on Jul 6, 2021 7:55:56 GMT -5
Pro tip: if you forget to leave a space for the annual Statement of Ownership, just shrink it to an unreadable size and paste it over a panel in the middle of a story. Dennis the Menace and Friends 21, 1974
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Post by tonebone on Jul 9, 2021 15:57:39 GMT -5
Pro tip: if you forget to leave a space for the annual Statement of Ownership, just shrink it to an unreadable size and paste it over a panel in the middle of a story. Dennis the Menace and Friends 21, 1974 That... is... amazing.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 14, 2021 21:42:22 GMT -5
What's wrong with this cover?
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