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Post by MDG on Aug 8, 2023 13:27:37 GMT -5
Poor Rob... He exerts himself drawing feet, and this is all the thanks he gets? It's tempting to rank on Liefeld fans, but then I remember, when I was 13, I was really, really into Peter Max.
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Post by MDG on Aug 8, 2023 8:44:46 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2023 11:04:34 GMT -5
Going back a couple of decades from most of the folks on the list, Johnny Craig, at EC, had a definite rep as a notoriously slow artist, and he got slower as things went on. His explanation was that he had little or no formal art training, so he'd have to draw something, erase it, and draw it again before he was satisfied. It might take him a couple weeks or more to do an 8-page story, as opposed to Jack Davis who could "bash it out" in 3 days.
I don't know if he got over this later, but, apart from his short stint on Iron man, he was never a "regular artist" again (working mainly in commercial art).
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2023 10:55:37 GMT -5
From a longer post about Gil Kane and Jack Katz on Howard Chaykin's FB page. I thought this was cute. I have been reading Chaykin's "Hey Kids! Comics!", and its so fascinating and layered... and so frustratingly mysterious with all the fake names, composite characters, etc. Lee, Kirby, Kane, Maneley, Chaykin, Roy Thomas, Wood, Gaines, Kurtzman, Eisner, and a bunch of others are easy to decipher, but some characters are really hard to suss out. This is what I hate about roman à clef stories, in comics or elsewhere: I'm only taking in the story with half a brain, the the half being concerned with which character is who in real life, how true is this, etc.
That's basically why I bailed on Hey Kids! Comics! I wasn't interested in any of the characters as characters, only in trying to decipher the "real" stories behind things. That's what I want to read!
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2023 9:10:38 GMT -5
At the flea market I was able to pick up a half dozen early MAD magazines in decent shape at 2 bucks apiece... There were more bargains to be had, but since I'm going to a con next week (and have to take the car in for brakes tomorrow), I let them pass for now.
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Post by MDG on Aug 7, 2023 9:04:43 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 6, 2023 15:32:14 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 6, 2023 15:22:58 GMT -5
I saw this today when I was sneaking up a staircase at work that's not open to the public yet... Is that RIT? It is indeed
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Post by MDG on Aug 5, 2023 10:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 5, 2023 9:51:17 GMT -5
ESCAPE FROM DEVIL’S ISLAND, 1952, Avon Periodicals The writer is unidentified, but the interiors are signed by the art team of Mart Nodel and Vince Alascia. Interesting. There're a few panels in there I could almost buy as early Wally Wood. Maybe that's Avon house style coming through.
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Post by MDG on Aug 4, 2023 12:08:06 GMT -5
Going to a big flea market in the morning, so it'll depend what time we get home.
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Post by MDG on Aug 4, 2023 9:14:58 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 3, 2023 15:39:31 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 3, 2023 8:34:23 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Aug 3, 2023 6:48:41 GMT -5
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