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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 24, 2024 22:55:12 GMT -5
Gotta say, if you're a new publisher who can't afford much in the way of well-known talent, you can do a lot worse than use that money to hire Ken Steacy for covers. Until you open the covers and find much more amateurish art inside...that especially marred Speed Racer. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 24, 2024 22:56:46 GMT -5
Fright Night #1, October 1988  |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 24, 2024 22:59:45 GMT -5
Ralph Snart Adventures #3 (3rd Series; November, 1988). 
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 25, 2024 2:09:38 GMT -5
Speed Racer Classics Vol. 1 TPB (December 1988)  |
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Post by foxley on Sept 25, 2024 2:17:47 GMT -5
The Real Ghostbusters #5 (January, 1989)  |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 25, 2024 7:34:00 GMT -5
Ralph Snart Adventures #5 (3rd Series; February, 1989). 
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Post by Calidore on Sept 25, 2024 8:31:10 GMT -5
Gotta say, if you're a new publisher who can't afford much in the way of well-known talent, you can do a lot worse than use that money to hire Ken Steacy for covers. Until you open the covers and find much more amateurish art inside...that especially marred Speed Racer. Yeah, I think that was the big problem with Now. They became one of the bigger indies for a while but their content seldom looked like it.
It was cool that they were a local outfit, so that when I bought one of their Speed Racer tapes I could go down to their office and pick it up in person instead of getting it shipped.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2024 12:19:26 GMT -5
Until you open the covers and find much more amateurish art inside...that especially marred Speed Racer. Yeah, I think that was the big problem with Now. They became one of the bigger indies for a while but their content seldom looked like it.
It was cool that they were a local outfit, so that when I bought one of their Speed Racer tapes I could go down to their office and pick it up in person instead of getting it shipped.
I bought those through my comic shop, though I bought some others that were released before that, with single stories. They used a lot of rookie talent, as did AC Comics. Shafted a lot of 'em too, in the latter days. I recall, at B&N, we got in copies of a book about how to make money in comics, by Tony Caputo, the publisher. I just smirked and said, "Yeah, exploit green rookies for a pittance, and then leave them with unpaid invoices and stolen artwork." He stiffed some name guys, by the end of it. Green Hornet had some better art and, of course, Alex Ross did Terminator: Burning Earth. We also got trade collections (I think reprints, as I don't recall any Now logos on them) of the Speed Racer stuff, when the movie came out. Just horrible interiors, in some issues. If Steacy could have done the series, it would have been awesome. I seem to recall Racer X having better art; but, I haven't looked at them in a long time and might be confusing the later mini, done at Wildstorm) |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 25, 2024 19:56:00 GMT -5
They used a lot of rookie talent, as did AC Comics. Shafted a lot of 'em too, in the latter days. Similar to First then, except with a much worse quality ratio. Way to portray Chicago comics companies, guys. If Steacy could have done the series, it would have been awesome. Hear, hear.
This exchange made me wonder, whatever happened to Steacy? Are airbrushes still even in use? Seems not much at least, because his non-reprint credits are pretty sporadic after the early '90s. Happily, according to Wikipedia, he and his wife are teaching college classes on visual storytelling and have even developed a certificate program.
One more recent GCD credit caught my eye, though; a graphic novel called Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos, which was co-written by Ellison and Paul Chadwick, drawn by Chadwick, and colored by Steacy. Yowza.
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Post by foxley on Sept 26, 2024 3:08:37 GMT -5
Fright Night #5 (March, 1989)  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 26, 2024 4:22:45 GMT -5
Terminator #7 (April 1989)  |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 26, 2024 9:35:25 GMT -5
They used a lot of rookie talent, as did AC Comics. Shafted a lot of 'em too, in the latter days. Similar to First then, except with a much worse quality ratio. Way to portray Chicago comics companies, guys. Looking at these covers, I think that while I probably glanced at Ralph Snart, I never actually purchased anything at all from the line. I don't know that one, although Steacy did a great adaptation of several of Moore's connected space opera stories, collected as Night and the Enemy. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 26, 2024 12:45:21 GMT -5
Slimer #1, May 1989  |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 26, 2024 13:57:54 GMT -5
Ralph Snart Adventures #9 (3rd Series; June, 1989). 
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 26, 2024 14:32:55 GMT -5
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen #1, July 1989  |
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