Post by Crimebuster on May 5, 2014 19:44:44 GMT -5
I was just looking through some TPB's I haven't gotten around to sorting out and one of them caught my eye. It was the second volume of Archie Comics' Jinx, which is a teenage update and modernization of the kid strip Lil' Jinx that used to run back in the day. It's pretty good.
What caught my eye, though, is that the whole series is inked by Terry Austin!
Austin is hardly the first major creator who used to work at the Big Two who has taken refuge at Archie. As many of you know from the other posts we've made on the subject, Norm Breyfogle drew the first several issues of Life with Archie.
That series is actually also written by Paul Kupperberg. And he's not alone - Archie #648, which was a Thor parody, was written by long time Thor scribe Tom DeFalco (and lettered by John Workman, who famously did the lettering for Walt Simonson's legendary Thor run!). DeFalco also wrote the Man From R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. arc in Archie #610-613, as well as several other Archie arcs in recent years.
All this got me thinking: What happened to all the other mainstays of Marvel and DC who no longer work for the company? I know some have moved on to other industries like animation, but I wonder how many of our favorite creators who seem to have vanished are actually still working in comics, just on titles we don't know about?
So, where are they now?
What caught my eye, though, is that the whole series is inked by Terry Austin!
Austin is hardly the first major creator who used to work at the Big Two who has taken refuge at Archie. As many of you know from the other posts we've made on the subject, Norm Breyfogle drew the first several issues of Life with Archie.
That series is actually also written by Paul Kupperberg. And he's not alone - Archie #648, which was a Thor parody, was written by long time Thor scribe Tom DeFalco (and lettered by John Workman, who famously did the lettering for Walt Simonson's legendary Thor run!). DeFalco also wrote the Man From R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. arc in Archie #610-613, as well as several other Archie arcs in recent years.
All this got me thinking: What happened to all the other mainstays of Marvel and DC who no longer work for the company? I know some have moved on to other industries like animation, but I wonder how many of our favorite creators who seem to have vanished are actually still working in comics, just on titles we don't know about?
So, where are they now?
