THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Mark Evanier reports the death of comics pioneer Creig Flessel at age 96, following a stroke. Flessel worked in comics from the dawn of the golden age on through Playboy and beyond. Tom Spurgeon has a lengthy obit with much information: Flessel was born on Long Island, New York in the town of Huntington at the tail [...]
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Image Comics has sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for Shadowline titles arriving in October 2008. DNAGENTS: INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH EDITION TP story MARK EVANIER art & cover WILL MEUGNIOT MARK EVANIER and WILL MEUGNIOT ’s DNAGENTS may well have been the prototype for today’s comic book industry. Not only was it released through one of the [...]...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I've just bought a book about Jack Kirby by Mark Evanier . If you're a comics nerd, you'll know that he was the creator or co-creator of The Hulk, Fantastic Four, Captain America and many others from the Forties onwards. As importantly, he drew them all, with a freshness and depth that changed the language of comic books . Anyway, I thought it was great that, before all that, as a struggling...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I saw on Mark Evanier’s site that classic Golden Age comic book artist Creig Flessel has passed away at the age of 96. Flessel created the Shining Knight and was a prominent cover artist on Detective Comics and other books (drawing the Sandman’s first cover appearance). My condolences to his family.
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Mike Lynch and Mark Evanier are reporting that golden age Sandman artist Creig Flessel passed away last Thursday, after suffering from a stroke the week before. He was 96. Evanier has more: His non-advertising cartoon appeared over the years in publications as diverse as Boy’s Life and Playboy, but it was his work for the early [...]
The Bleeding Tree (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I've been reading and looking over both Kirby: King of Comics by Mark Evanier and Kirby Five-Oh! again and again, and I can't stop coming back to Kirby's own colored art. It's absolutely amazing to me. Like this Metron from the New Gods Gallery . Frankly, if a New Gods movie were made, I'd hope they'd use these color guides, especially if it were animated. But then I'm currently trying...
Journalista (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... that I won’t be covering here. There’s plenty of news today, though… Above the Fold [Top Story] Mark Evanier reports the death of pioneering comic-book cartoonist Creig Flessel on July 17, at the age of 96. According to Mike Lynch , his wife Marie was by his side on the final hour. Flessel began work as an illustrator for pulp magazines shortly after graduating school, and in 1935...
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Mark Evanier saw the new restored version of Sleeping Beauty and expresses some reservations about the story, while Thad K recently expressed some reservations about the visuals . I share many of those same reservations about SB, but another thing that bugs me about the film is something that ought to be one of the highlights: the Tchaikovsky music. Disney insisted on using Tchaikovsky's...
