…told him or her what to do, or refused to allow something he or she wanted to do. 2) I wasn’t warm and fuzzy enough. I didn’t sugar coat things enough. I was “mean.” Well, it was my job to run Marvel’s comics publishing operation. I was making decisions that…
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Stan asked me to come to his office one day to help him make a big decision. Okay. It was 1979. Marvel was still at 575 Madison Avenue. We comic book people were on the sixth floor. The non-comics magazine people, the bigshots (except for Stan) and business types were…
…a telephone and wasn’t afraid to use it. The above was our, Marvel’s fault, or, if you wish, my fault, going with the buck-stops-here theory. I tried to help the situation by assigning a staff assistant editor to be Roy’s on-site agent, to look after his books and follow up…
…2) Do you think it is alright for some books in a line to be directed at a general audience and others to be intended for comics-savvy readers? Or, would that just lead confusion about what a brand (e.g. Marvel, DC…) represents? ANSWER: RE: “…how do you feel about the…
…six years before it would have been trendy to have the license, but we all loved the original series or at least its potential and so we made our plans and did what we could to create good comics. Jim K. wrote our main series. Mark handled the lettering, production,…
…didn’t read those pages of text that punctuated the art in the comics. Also, I read the underground or alternative comics, what would now be called independents, like Elfquest and Cerebus and magazines like Heavy Metal. I didn’t regularly read a whole lot of Marvels, and no DC comics at…
…I played with it for hours upon hours. The one pictured above looks like it’s about 3 times as big as the one I used. One thing that bothers me about modern comics is that in many cases they are still using repulsor rays and outdated or misinterpreted science from…
JayJay here. On Sunday, we went to the New York Comic Con see the panel Jim was a part of, Screen Future, with Brian David Johnson (Intel Futurist and author of “Screen Future”), Craig Engler (senior executive, Syfy channel) and Cory Doctorow (sci-fi author and blogger on Boing, Boing). Freddy filmed the panel…
…use teasers, especially important with that approach. Stay tuned. Another approach to continued stories that you don’t see much in comics is the Hill Street Blues technique. Hill Street Blues was a TV show about cops. As I recall, in each episode, they started at least one storyline concerning…
Tue Sørensen commented: Great and interesting reading as usual, Jim. All this talk of the mob makes me wonder how things are today. Is there still a mob with significant influence on many aspects of show business (under which I include comics) or did all that fade away a few…