Showing posts with label Charlton Comics. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Doomsday +1 #6: "All The Beautiful People"


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In his more than thirty years as a popular comic book artist, John Byrne has drawn, and in some cases written, updated, and occasionally drastically modified, a great many major characters. These include Fantastic Four, Superman, Ghost Rider, X-Men, Daredevil, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Captain America. He has also created such features as Alpha Flight and Next Men. One of his recent projects was DC's 2003 twelve-part series, Generations 3.

Born in England and reared in Canada, Byrne did his first professional work for Charlton in 1974 on Space: 1999. He next moved to Marvel. After being in the business for over a decade, he decided his style needed renovating. "How could I draw if I didn't draw like Neal [Adams]?" he asked himself, referring to one of his idols and influences. The new style he developed was much looser, more touched with humor, and easily recognizable as being by nobody else but John Byrne.


You'll notice the credit for art reads 'Byrne Robotics.' Very simple reason: I didn't pencil that issue. I inked it, but the pencils were provided (with Charlton's permission) by an Art College crony (since deceased), Doug Bevan.

Oddly enough, I no longer remember WHY this was so. Doug was a painfully slow artist, so it certainly couldn't have been to help me out with deadlines! Perhaps he was strapped for cash.

Anyway, I redrew a lot of it, including the entire splash page, but a lot of Doug still shows thru.

—John Byrne, November 30, 2010

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Creepy Things #3: "The Grass is Always Greener"


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Sporting a beautiful cover painting by Tom Sutton, "The Grass is Always Greener" was written by Mike Pellowski and illustrated by Mike Vosburg.







Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Space: 1999 #1: "Moonless Night"


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When it comes to Science Fiction, I cut my eyeteeth on Robert A. Heinlein novels, Star Trek reruns (including the underrated novelized adaptations by James Blish) and comic books. However, when Space: 1999 hit the airwaves back in the 1970s, I watched every episode I could with rapt attention. After all, I was planning on still being alive in 1999 so this could affect me, or so I dreamed as a kid. We should have had a pioneering base on the moon by 1999 and our space program is woefully behind what 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted, but that's Congress and budget cuts at NASA for you. Space: 1999's second season would go on to be hated by hardcore science fiction fans as they apparently decided to go with B-movie monster schlock instead of hard science, but one good season is better than none at all.

The art quality went up and down in the magazine as the first two issues were drawn by Joe Staton, John Byrne issues #3-6, and Pat Boyette book-ended the final issue in #7. The very talented Nicola Cuti, who won last year's Inkpot Award, wrote issues #1-#5, John Byrne wrote #6 and Mike Pellowski wrote #7. While I prefer Byrne's art for the most part, I must say that Joe Staton provided the best-looking cover painting with issue #1 and I think this first issue is mostly given the short shrift due to Byrne's name in later issues. Enough reminiscing, please enjoy!



Credits:

Script: Nicola Cuti
Pencils and inks: Joe Staton
Colors: Wendy Fiore


























Special surprise bonus download: Starlog #2
Cover story featuring Space: 1999

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