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Post by MDG on Nov 16, 2023 16:22:01 GMT -5
Does anyone know what really happened with Rich Buckler? The story was he was fired and more or less black balled for drawing a space ship that was a copy from another comic. But come on, that doesn't pass the smell test. Comics have been appropriating images since before Action #1. No way a space ship in one book would end a career. I always liked his work. He captured the Kirby/Buscema dynamic in his work, though he wasn't as good as either. His books were fun reads. I also thought Deathlok was cool. I met him once when he was showing his surrealist/fantasy paintings. He was a nice guy. The way the story is told here, Buckler swiped a spaceship design and the disillusioned writer left a series: Buckler, as far as I know, was never blackballed or reprimanded, though he has been called out on swiping, though not appreciably more than others. But I did get a chuckle out of this when I first saw it:
I never spotted specific swipes, but when I saw him listed in the credits, the question was, "Is it the Kirby Buckler, the Adams Buckler, or the Buscema Buckler?"
(I never saw those paintings--pretty cool)
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Post by MDG on Nov 16, 2023 10:30:05 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 15, 2023 15:58:28 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 15, 2023 10:36:12 GMT -5
I don't see how Star Wars is in any worse hands. Lucas only directed three somewhat interesting films in his career. To that you can add two stories that were made in to scripts and films by others. Star Wars has always been a mediocre property. There. I said it. I agree with you, but obviously it clicks with a lot of people. My oldest was born a little bit after the original trilogy, but got way into it when the Phantom Menace came out with absolutely no encouragement. Ditto his son, years later.
But I've really soured on the whole "universe" concept.
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Post by MDG on Nov 15, 2023 10:28:14 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 15, 2023 10:25:43 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2023 20:20:54 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2023 20:19:20 GMT -5
"Landscape" was reprinted in Les Daniels' book Comix: A History of Comic Books in America, where I read and re-read it a dozen times (like the rest of the stories in the book). Maybe Orlando's best job (and I'm counting his EC work).
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2023 10:58:12 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2023 10:55:55 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley
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Post by MDG on Nov 14, 2023 10:54:02 GMT -5
October 1989June 1989 was an incredibly important month for the comic book industry as a whole as Tim Burton's Batman became the smash hit of the summer and the direct market fully embraced the Batmania that ensured. Comic retailers had been aware of the film and its potential to be a success long before the film's advertising campaign began in May and merchandise had been shipping in large qualities prior to the film's release. However, nothing could have quite braced retailers for how popular the film would become. Batman vaulted past Uncanny X-Men in sales, and the film adaptation, which had a difficult production history and almost didn't make it onto the stands, matched X-Men for dollars earned. Legends of the Dark Knight #1 would go on to be the biggest selling book of the year with pre-orders so high that shipments had to be broken up over several weeks with different variant covers. This revival in the direct market led in no small part to the speculator boom of the early 90s.... And--and please correct me if I'm wrong--this was the last time a successful comic book movie significantly boosted comic sales as a whole. IIRC, Marvel expected the fiorst X-Men movie to do it, but it never did.
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Post by MDG on Nov 13, 2023 14:32:27 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 12, 2023 11:35:09 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 10, 2023 16:45:48 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Nov 10, 2023 10:48:52 GMT -5
FF 75 1968 Not showing up james -- I don't think you can link images from wikis. You can, but you have to edit the original link text to remove everything after ".jpg"
Apparently, he's right!
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