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Post by Axe Elf on Jan 15, 2023 2:30:20 GMT -5
I realised there were a lot more good artists that I'd thought Steve Ditko and Neal Adams contributed to some of the early issues. "Curse of the Vampire" in CREEPY #14 was actually Neal Adams comics debut (though he had previously done the Ben Casey strip for 3 years).  |
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 15, 2023 7:44:17 GMT -5
Steve Ditko and Neal Adams contributed to some of the early issues. "Curse of the Vampire" in CREEPY #14 was actually Neal Adams comics debut (though he had previously done the Ben Casey strip for 3 years). Few comic debuts have been so seismic, for Adams' extremely wide-ranging talents and how it was a major transformational force for the industry. With the possible exception of humor, Adams elevated nearly all other genres in comic books. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 15, 2023 9:22:35 GMT -5
He did draw Jerry Lewis, but if we can include National Lampoon, he elevated Humor, or at least parody, as well.  |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jan 18, 2023 12:33:22 GMT -5
He did draw Jerry Lewis, but if we can include National Lampoon, he elevated Humor, or at least parody, as well.
I'd love to have a collection of his complete NatLamp strips. He did a lot for them!
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Post by MDG on Jan 18, 2023 14:14:38 GMT -5
He did draw Jerry Lewis, but if we can include National Lampoon, he elevated Humor, or at least parody, as well.
I'd love to have a collection of his complete NatLamp strips. He did a lot for them!
A couple of them were reprinted in this, but there's never been an attempt to reprint strips done for NatLamp except for artist-centric collections like NUTS or the recent Trots and Bonnnie book.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jan 20, 2023 12:38:02 GMT -5
A couple of them were reprinted in this, but there's never been an attempt to reprint strips done for NatLamp except for artist-centric collections like NUTS or the recent Trots and Bonnnie book.
I think I have that volume, but it's only a small fraction of his NatLamp output.
Byron Preiss did a collection of 'One Year Affair,' and I think there's been a collection of Ron Barrett's strips.
Vaughn Bode's work for them has also been reprinted.
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Post by MDG on Jan 20, 2023 13:39:30 GMT -5
A couple of them were reprinted in this, but there's never been an attempt to reprint strips done for NatLamp except for artist-centric collections like NUTS or the recent Trots and Bonnnie book.
I think I have that volume, but it's only a small fraction of his NatLamp output.
Byron Preiss did a collection of 'One Year Affair,' and I think there's been a collection of Ron Barrett's strips.
Vaughn Bode's work for them has also been reprinted.
Yeah--but I wonder if we'll ever see a collection of comic features done for the magazine: Adams, Giordano, Springer, Orlando, Evans.... |
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Post by Axe Elf on Jan 23, 2023 17:46:44 GMT -5
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jan 24, 2023 12:27:57 GMT -5
I think I have that volume, but it's only a small fraction of his NatLamp output.
Byron Preiss did a collection of 'One Year Affair,' and I think there's been a collection of Ron Barrett's strips.
Vaughn Bode's work for them has also been reprinted.
Yeah--but I wonder if we'll ever see a collection of comic features done for the magazine: Adams, Giordano, Springer, Orlando, Evans....
Have you seen the Very Large Book of Comical Funnies? It's my favorite NatLamp book; a faux history of comics with art by some of the greatest cartoonists in the era.
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Post by MDG on Jan 24, 2023 12:52:10 GMT -5
Yeah--but I wonder if we'll ever see a collection of comic features done for the magazine: Adams, Giordano, Springer, Orlando, Evans....
Have you seen the Very Large Book of Comical Funnies? It's my favorite NatLamp book; a faux history of comics with art by some of the greatest cartoonists in the era.
Oh, yeah--it's great and many ways way ahead of its tome (or at least the market).
The euro-western by Russ Heath is still one of the funniest things I've seen in comics.
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Post by rom on Feb 2, 2023 20:08:00 GMT -5
I read some of the early Creepy & Eerie HC Archives in the late 200X's/early 20XX's, but didn't own any of these - my local library had some of these at one time. Great horror anthology magazines, with excellent b&w artwork. Glad that they're planning on re-reprinting these in TPB - starting this Spring. Great news, and I may start to collect these due to the lower price point. Presumably, they will be using the same film/print for the TPB's as they did for the HC's. www.brokenfrontier.com/creepy-eerie-dark-horse/ |
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Post by berkley on Feb 3, 2023 0:20:07 GMT -5
Have you seen the Very Large Book of Comical Funnies? It's my favorite NatLamp book; a faux history of comics with art by some of the greatest cartoonists in the era.
Oh, yeah--it's great and many ways way ahead of its tome (or at least the market).
The euro-western by Russ Heath is still one of the funniest things I've seen in comics.
I only wish it had been longer - like a whole series or a big graphic novel. |
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Post by Axe Elf on Feb 3, 2023 12:43:50 GMT -5
I read some of the early Creepy & Eerie HC Archives in the late 200X's/early 20XX's, but didn't own any of these - my local library had some of these at one time. Great horror anthology magazines, with excellent b&w artwork. Glad that they're planning on re-reprinting these in TPB - starting this Spring. Great news, and I may start to collect these due to the lower price point. Presumably, they will be using the same film/print for the TPB's as they did for the HC's. www.brokenfrontier.com/creepy-eerie-dark-horse/Awesome that the old CREEPYs and EERIEs will be more accessible to a new generation who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience what an important contribution they were to the history of comics. |
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 3, 2023 13:06:00 GMT -5
I read some of the early Creepy & Eerie HC Archives in the late 200X's/early 20XX's, but didn't own any of these - my local library had some of these at one time. Great horror anthology magazines, with excellent b&w artwork. Glad that they're planning on re-reprinting these in TPB - starting this Spring. Great news, and I may start to collect these due to the lower price point. Presumably, they will be using the same film/print for the TPB's as they did for the HC's. www.brokenfrontier.com/creepy-eerie-dark-horse/Awesome that the old CREEPYs and EERIEs will be more accessible to a new generation who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience what an important contribution they were to the history of comics. It is a good thing; too many Gen-X through Z believe comic development is all about superheroes, when horror was a solid backbone for the medium across generations. Innumerable great stories, with legendary contributors graced Warren's titles, and in turn, it certainly played a role in DC and Marvel shifting old anthology titles into full-on horror / creating a number of new books, or creating reprint titles and magazines, respectively. Warren realized there was a longtime and hungry audience not only for horror, but featuring some of the most high-quality work published at the time--and so much of it stands the test of time, unlike the books from many comic book competitors. |
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Post by MDG on Feb 3, 2023 13:47:52 GMT -5
Awesome that the old CREEPYs and EERIEs will be more accessible to a new generation who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience what an important contribution they were to the history of comics. It is a good thing; too many Gen-X through Z believe comic development is all about superheroes, when horror was a solid backbone for the medium across generations. Innumerable great stories, with legendary contributors graced Warren's titles, and in turn, it certainly played a role in DC and Marvel shifting old anthology titles into full-on horror / creating a number of new books, or creating reprint titles and magazines, respectively. Warren realized there was a longtime and hungry audience not only for horror, but featuring some of the most high-quality work published at the time--and so much of it stands the test of time, unlike the books from many comic book competitors. You got that right--I hear conversations or even podcasts and "comic fans" can't conceive of how different the buying/reading experience was before the direct market. Also, the number of artists (and writers) who did some of their best work for Warren is staggering: Goodwin, Ditko, Toth, Heath, Torres, Wrightson, Crandall, Colan, Orlando, Williamson, Morrow, Infantino, Severin, Skeates, Moench, Corben... |
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