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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 17, 2023 15:26:03 GMT -5
That was an interesting piece. I appreciate Mark not giving the name of the inker whose work John seemed to hate so much! Very decent thing to do, even if most fans know who he's talking about. It still surprises me after all these years. They did such beautiful work together! |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 17, 2023 15:38:04 GMT -5
If it was Alcala, you can see how much his inks looked different than Buscemas. We as readers appreciate the beauty of the work, but he thought they overpowered his pencils. I think John B always liked his pencils to look like he had inked them himself. That is why he liked his brother and Giacioa over other great inkers like Sinnott or George Klein. It's good he got to ink himself later on Conan and Wolverine.
After watching the video interview poster earlier, I have some thoughts about him that I will post at a page time.
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Post by MDG on Jan 17, 2023 15:48:10 GMT -5
Did you ever see this? John inked by his granddaughter Stephanie. (Nice, but I think I'd like heavier inks)  |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 17, 2023 16:20:44 GMT -5
Looks like a cross between John's inks and Sal's, which ain't bad.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 9:13:38 GMT -5
I like this:
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 18, 2023 9:30:40 GMT -5
Intwoduction by Jonathan Woss? Vewy intewesting! I knew he was a comic fan and I have a copy of that Ditko documentary he did. Wouldn't have figured him for a Marshal Law fan. |
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Post by commond on Jan 18, 2023 17:46:09 GMT -5
Ross has actually written a few comic series in recent years. He has a man cave in his house that is reported to have the largest comic and toy collection in Britain. IIRC, he co-owned a London comic book shop at one point. Dude is a fan of everything from Tintin to manga. He keeps up to date with modern comics, too, which is cool.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 4:48:43 GMT -5
The latest issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine begins a time-spanning team-up between Dredd and One-Eyed Jack, a character who first appeared in 1976, within the pages of Valiant:  I wonder, did Dirty Harry inspire One-Eyed Jack?  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 19, 2023 11:44:10 GMT -5
Why not? he, or at least, Clint Eastwood, inspired Judge Dredd.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 13:12:31 GMT -5
One of my favourite Superman comics went on sale 35 years ago today:  The Silver Banshee is, in my humble opinion, one of the best villains created in the modern era (if 1988 is “modern”). |
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Post by berkley on Jan 19, 2023 13:28:40 GMT -5
If it was Alcala, you can see how much his inks looked different than Buscemas. We as readers appreciate the beauty of the work, but he thought they overpowered his pencils. I think John B always liked his pencils to look like he had inked them himself. That is why he liked his brother and Giacioa over other great inkers like Sinnott or George Klein. It's good he got to ink himself later on Conan and Wolverine. After watching the video interview poster earlier, I have some thoughts about him that I will post at a page time.
Alcala's inks did overpower the pencils, so it's completely understandable that Buscema disliked him as an inker. Like many fans, I love the resulting finished artwork and think of it as a collaboration rather than Alcala rendering Buscema's pencils faithfully.
I've often thought that Marvel could have made both artists happier if they'd assigned Alcala to do the complete artwork himself for the black and white Conan magazine, or at least some of those stories he worked on with Buscema. But of course the company couldn't have cared less about the artists's feelings and the pay structure was set up to make it more lucrative for artists like Buscema to do pencils only.
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 19, 2023 17:17:06 GMT -5
This interview with Buscema from 2001, recently posted on YouTube, is also interesting in this regard - as, among other things, he talks about some of the stuff Evanier mentioned:
So, after watching this video, here is my take on Buscema, he loved drawing comics. He didn't love comic books, but he loved =drawing them. In an ideal world he would have had a weekly adventure strip like Prince Valiant or Tarzan, but that world was shrinking and not available to him. But he loved to draw and comics gave him the opportunity to stay at home and draw everyday. He talks about the lost time in commuting when working in advertising, and not seeing his family. Comics let him work at home and do what he loved everyday. But you say, "He says he didn't care about comics". Well, I think what he is saying is he didn't care about the characters and what happened to them, as comic fans do. What he cared about was a well done, well told story. But not the ongoing saga of titles. I will use my self as an example. I was a billboard/sign artist for almost 30 years. It was a great job that afforded me to make a living painting everyday (on a very large scale) I did not care about advertising, I found a lot of it inane. It didn't make a difference to me who the billboard or wall sign was for. What I cared about was doing a good job with the art, perfecting my skills and hoping the client was happy.
I think this is how Buscema felt, he was indifferent to the world of comics, but not the artwork that he and others did. One of the signs I painted, 20x80 feet. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 17:36:28 GMT -5
I agree with Kirby's assessment of Buscema. He was passionate about the craft of making comics, about the process of telling a story visually, but he could care less about the characters, continuity, stories, etc. unless it was in a narrow group of genres he enjoyed (adventure strips). He saw that stuff as irrelevant to the craft of making good comics (whereas for most fans that's what the sauce of comics is).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 8:49:48 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting:
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Post by MDG on Jan 20, 2023 10:36:09 GMT -5
I will use my self as an example. I was a billboard/sign artist for almost 30 years. It was a great job that afforded me to make a living painting everyday (on a very large scale) I did not care about advertising, I found a lot of it inane..... One of the signs I painted, 20x80 feet.
It's a collection of Green's strips from a trade magazine full of anecdotes, history, and signpainting tips. |
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