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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 30, 2022 17:45:35 GMT -5
Howard was very pleasant and very busy sketching when I met him at Gem City several years back. He signs things very quickly and it looks like swirls not letters when he does, but he is generally amendable to signing stuff (or was). He was surprised at some of the things I asked him to sign (Monark Starstalker, Solomon Kane in Marvel Premiere; Conan; Ironwolf), and was glad I asked for something different than what he was always asked to sketch (Hawkgirl). He seemed to like interacting with fan and such, and didn't mind signing or sketching (free signatures, modest prices for sketches back then), he just seemed to get bored signing or sketching the same old things over and over again as the day wore on. Now, that was 2014 and a lot could have changed since then, but I enjoyed the experience of meeting him. -M I met Chaykin at a local con a couple of years ago.. I came armed with a bunch of the Evanier/Spiegel Blackhawks with his covers. I was really nervous because he can be pretty brusque in interviews. He has also been outspoken about not wanting to sign "old stuff" (Like Star Wars). He was the nicest guy in the world, and seemed overjoyed at seeing the Blackhawk comics. He talked about one cover for 10 minutes, saying it has always been one of his favorite images. He really looked them over and seemed to admire his handiwork as he signed each one. The most positive con interaction I've ever had. This was the cover he really gushed over... I think it's the issue that contains a story he drew, as well. Well, Blackhawk was the first comic he ever stole......
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Post by MDG on Apr 18, 2022 13:51:06 GMT -5
If you get Kanopy through your library system, they're showing Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones. Interview segments include Wrightson, Kaluta, Mignola, Weezie, Moebius, and others.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2022 14:39:26 GMT -5
For those that don't venture into the Modern Comics thread-there's a crowdfunding campaign for a Ukraine benefit comic going on organized by Scott Dunbier featuring new stories by Simonson, Chaykin, Sakai, Busiek/Anderson and others. The thread for it is here-M
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Apr 25, 2022 20:51:44 GMT -5
Here's a nifty 1981 episode of a British documentary series called Arena that's all about Superman. Some great interview footage with Siegel and Shuster, Sol Harrison, Larry Niven, Kirk Alyn, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Trina Robbins, Fredric Wertham (!), Art Spiegelman, and some cool footage of Will Eisner teaching a comics class.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2022 3:53:39 GMT -5
These two surviving sketches may be Joe Kubert's earliest character sketches for the SA Hawkman and Hawkgirl. They are from circa 1958/1959... -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 31, 2022 22:09:24 GMT -5
Apparently Cary Bates wrote the first issue of a “Gorilla City” comic that was axed when Carmine Infantino was fired as Publisher. According to Bates it was pencilled and inked. Anybody ever hear who the art team was?
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Post by codystarbuck on May 31, 2022 22:18:01 GMT -5
Apparently Cary Bates wrote the first issue of a “Gorilla City” comic that was axed when Carmine Infantino was fired as Publisher. According to Bates it was pencilled and inked. Anybody ever hear who the art team was? First I've heard of that one. I'd bet on either Carmine, himself, or one of the younger pencillers working at DC, with a veteran inker (possibly Coletta). It seems like a lot of younger talent was involved in the projects that got the axe, in the implosion, and in the transition to Jenette Kahn. I could see Carmine doing at least the initial issue or two and then handing it off, just to keep his hand in and because it was related to his Flash work.
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Post by Farrar on May 31, 2022 23:41:09 GMT -5
Apparently Cary Bates wrote the first issue of a “Gorilla City” comic that was axed when Carmine Infantino was fired as Publisher. According to Bates it was pencilled and inked. Anybody ever hear who the art team was? There's an article about it in Back Issue #15 (from 2006), which states that " Grodd of Gorilla City was indeed written by Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin, penciled by Joe Barney and Carl Potts, and inked by Terry Austin and Bob Wiacek." Austin is interviewed and he says he believes the project was initiated by Bates. Joe Barney is also interviewed and says that Bates asked Neal Adams if there were any artists who had the time to work on a story he and Maggin had written, and Adams suggested Barney and Potts. Carl Potts is also interviewed and he remembers that "The [Continuity] crew included Joe Barney, Terry Austin, Bob Wiacek and myself. Cary Bates rented an office at Continuity and asked Joe and I to co-pencil the project and Terry and Bob to ink it...Neither Joe or I were known as speed demons when it came to drawing comics...we tended to sweat over every panel. That lack of speed, combined with the fact that we were already involved with other comics and commercial projects, probably prompted Cary to have multiple artists on the Grodd story." So Carl Potts and Joe Barney penciled separate pages on the book. When asked if Infantino or Kahn was at the helm, Austin recollects that "Carmine would have been publisher at that time...The first issue was completed but I don't think I ever heard why it wasn't used."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 1, 2022 8:15:25 GMT -5
Apparently Cary Bates wrote the first issue of a “Gorilla City” comic that was axed when Carmine Infantino was fired as Publisher. According to Bates it was pencilled and inked. Anybody ever hear who the art team was? There's an article about it in Back Issue #15 (from 2006), which states that " Grodd of Gorilla City was indeed written by Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin, penciled by Joe Barney and Carl Potts, and inked by Terry Austin and Bob Wiacek." Austin is interviewed and he says he believes the project was initiated by Bates. Joe Barney is also interviewed and says that Bates asked Neal Adams if there were any artists who had the time to work on a story he and Maggin had written, and Adams suggested Barney and Potts. Carl Potts is also interviewed and he remembers that "The [Continuity] crew included Joe Barney, Terry Austin, Bob Wiacek and myself. Cary Bates rented an office at Continuity and asked Joe and I to co-pencil the project and Terry and Bob to ink it...Neither Joe or I were known as speed demons when it came to drawing comics...we tended to sweat over every panel. That lack of speed, combined with the fact that we were already involved with other comics and commercial projects, probably prompted Cary to have multiple artists on the Grodd story." So Carl Potts and Joe Barney penciled separate pages on the book. When asked if Infantino or Kahn was at the helm, Austin recollects that "Carmine would have been publisher at that time...The first issue was completed but I don't think I ever heard why it wasn't used." Neat. I’ve got that issue, but I’ve either forgotten it in the last 16 years or I never fully read it.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 1, 2022 9:22:55 GMT -5
I've got a fuzzy memory of the Gorilla City project being plugged on DC's Direct Currents Hotline. As I recall, that recording teased a few features that were being prepared or considered, and my (remember, fuzzy!) memory includes The Atom and Martian Manhunter in the list that was read off.
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Post by MDG on Jun 1, 2022 9:42:18 GMT -5
I've got a fuzzy memory of the Gorilla City project being plugged on DC's Direct Currents Hotline. As I recall, that recording teased a few features that were being prepared or considered, and my (remember, fuzzy!) memory includes The Atom and Martian Manhunter in the list that was read off. I never knew anyone that actually called in to that!
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Post by tonebone on Jun 8, 2022 10:13:57 GMT -5
I've got a fuzzy memory of the Gorilla City project being plugged on DC's Direct Currents Hotline. As I recall, that recording teased a few features that were being prepared or considered, and my (remember, fuzzy!) memory includes The Atom and Martian Manhunter in the list that was read off. I never knew anyone that actually called in to that! My sister called the Howard the Duck (movie) hotline back in the 80's, and didn't properly hang up the phone (she was 9), and my dad got a bill for $900. It all got straightened out, but *hoo boy* was he mad.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2022 10:15:37 GMT -5
$900?!
I’m pleased to hear it was sorted out. Did the phone company give 100% of that back? Do they have a certain amount of leeway for that kind of thing?
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 8, 2022 10:28:31 GMT -5
My sister called the Howard the Duck (movie) hotline back in the 80's, and didn't properly hang up the phone (she was 9), and my dad got a bill for $900. It all got straightened out, but *hoo boy* was he mad. As a fan of HTD, what was the movie hotline for exactly? Was it for people to complain about how bad it was?
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Post by tonebone on Jun 8, 2022 13:18:20 GMT -5
My sister called the Howard the Duck (movie) hotline back in the 80's, and didn't properly hang up the phone (she was 9), and my dad got a bill for $900. It all got straightened out, but *hoo boy* was he mad. As a fan of HTD, what was the movie hotline for exactly? Was it for people to complain about how bad it was? Ha Ha... it was a marketing thing where you could call and Howard would jibber jabber about being a duck, I guess... it was all designed to get people excited about seeing the movie, and to make money, of course... 900 numbers were REALLY common at the time... psychics, sexy talk, music artists, etc. They charged high rates per minute, hence the high phone bill for not hanging up. You can see it at the bottom of this newspaper ad for the movie... if you squint really hard.
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