…audience for one of his presentations, but he was so mobbed afterwards, I couldn’t get near him to say hello. Anyway…. At some point during my dealings with Winner, I had a trip planned to London. The usual place to stay for Marvel execs was the London Hilton on Park…
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I didn’t know Jack Abel very well during my first few years at Marvel, which were also my first few years in New York, my first time in close proximity to the majority of comics professionals. I saw Jack once in a while when I was visiting Continuity — Neal…
Galton the Clock-sucker Marvel moved from 575 Madison Avenue to 387 Park Avenue South in June of 1981 (I think. Anyone know for sure?). The Mad Ave offices weren’t great. They were cramped and dingy and not well-suited to our purposes. And quickly becoming too small. We were growing fast….
…fact, I narrowly missed having Dave draw some of my stories when in the mid-1970’s when I started writing the Legion again for a while, shortly after he left the series. Though I was working on staff at Marvel, my boss, Marv Wolfman, graciously allowed me to finish the three…
…of these. There are a lot of reprints out now. The Marvel Masterworks , Marvel Essentials …stuff like that. Any old Kirby story is instructive. You’ll find other people too—old Wally Wood stories, old Steve Ditko stories are very informative. But let me walk you through this one and show…
It was Stan’s fault. Once upon a time, while I was associate editor at Marvel, a bunch of us were hanging around the office after work. This often happened during that brain-dead hour or so when the words you were trying to edit started swimming around on the pages. Often,…
…the graphic story and shows you how to make compelling images that deliver your story with power and precision. Essential knowledge for writers as well as artists. Comic Book Writing – Former Marvel Editor in Chief Jim Shooter tells you what you need to know to create and write comics…
…to draw Comics the Marvel Way says that crap! John seldom inked, but when he did, he never sabotaged his art by destroying the depth by “spotting blacks.” He knew better. He was a great artist. If he had lived during the Renaissance, he’d have given Michaelangelo a run for…
…Joe Zawadsky. Brian is an executive at Intel Corporation. His title is “Futurist” with this appended: “Principal Engineer and Director, Future Casting, Interactions and Experience Research.” Google him. Or start here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/10/13/brian-david-johnson-intels-guide-to-the-future/ Mike Hobson, Publisher of Marvel Comics for much of my time there, always used to joke that the…
…did he tilt the camera thirty degrees or so to the left here? He had a reason. The Torch is waaay up in the air, and he wanted to give the readers a little of that airplane banking feeling, a little vertigo. DC Comics used to give new artists a…