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In the course of reading Mark Evanier's swell News From ME page, I learned about a project under way to restore a "lost" Superman comic from the 40s, which was fully scripted and drawn, but never published as such. Collectors own some of the pages, and others were printed here and there before vanishing again. Artists are now reconstructing the whole book and making it available as they go along. Cool stuff.
Equally cool, for some of us, is seeing who did what in the original. As historian Bob Hughes exclaimed on seeing it, "Gah! Every page is drawn by a different person!" Armed with innate knowledge of how artists handle bystanders, Superman's cape, and other esoterica, Hughes gave his assessment of which studio member did which page. In the course of reading that, I learned of something else neat.
Hughes has a webpage where he calls it as he sees it, identifying DC artists through the years: pencils, inks. I haven't had a chance to inspect it closely yet, but it reminds me of the days of working at a comic shop for Chuck Rozanski at Mile High when I could look at a page from a current comic and identify the penciller, inker, and sometimes even the writer. ("Maudlin and painfully 'relevant' -- I say it's Denny O'Neill!")
No doubt this page is common knowledge, but it's new to me! If youse guys know a similar one with a Marvel orientation (or any other -- Dell, Gold Key, Harvey...) be sure and let us know.
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In the course of reading Mark Evanier's swell News From ME page, I learned about a project under way to restore a "lost" Superman comic from the 40s, which was fully scripted and drawn, but never published as such. Collectors own some of the pages, and others were printed here and there before vanishing again. Artists are now reconstructing the whole book and making it available as they go along. Cool stuff.
Equally cool, for some of us, is seeing who did what in the original. As historian Bob Hughes exclaimed on seeing it, "Gah! Every page is drawn by a different person!" Armed with innate knowledge of how artists handle bystanders, Superman's cape, and other esoterica, Hughes gave his assessment of which studio member did which page. In the course of reading that, I learned of something else neat.
Hughes has a webpage where he calls it as he sees it, identifying DC artists through the years: pencils, inks. I haven't had a chance to inspect it closely yet, but it reminds me of the days of working at a comic shop for Chuck Rozanski at Mile High when I could look at a page from a current comic and identify the penciller, inker, and sometimes even the writer. ("Maudlin and painfully 'relevant' -- I say it's Denny O'Neill!")
No doubt this page is common knowledge, but it's new to me! If youse guys know a similar one with a Marvel orientation (or any other -- Dell, Gold Key, Harvey...) be sure and let us know.
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