Back on March 24 I said that Joe Sinnott would be returning to the Sunday funnies one more time inking the MUTTS comic strip, and today is it! Fantastic Four fans will get the joke about the cocoon.
I spent all day yesterday with Joe at the Empire State Comic Con in Albany. Joe’s doing great, and he’s as clever and fesity as ever.
Today’s MUTTS comic strip isn’t a one-of-a-kind artistic collaboration between cartoonist Patrick McDonnell and the recently retired Joe Sinnott, because one more will be coming along in a not-too-distant Sunday.
The idea for this little project came out of a visit that McDonnell had with Joe a few months ago. As familiar as I am with Joe’s technique, I see none of it here. A few of Joe’s trademark “Sinnott dots” on the floor would have been a giveaway of his handiwork, but there are none to be found. I’m told that’s because Joe wanted to be true to McDonnell’s drawings when applying ink to them, and he certainly succeeded.
After more than 42 years, the Amazing Spider-Man comic strip is coming to an end. Today is the last new Sunday edition of the strip, written by Roy Thomas (credited to Stan Lee) and illustrated by Alex Saviuk and Joltin’ Joe Sinnott. With no deadlines to meet after almost 70 years in the business, Joe can take it easy. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to my pal Joe!
There sure is plenty of zapping done in the Captain Marvel movie, and Brie Larson is certainly the best-looking incarnation of the character I’ve seen over the past 50+ years. The original Captain Marvel will be appearing in Shazam! next month, but this is the one I knew when I was a kid.
One little movie semi-spoiler I’ll offer is that Nick Fury loses his left eye the same way I almost lost my right eye when I was 12. Before leaving the house for the school bus stop I decided to say goodbye to the family cat, while he was eating breakfast. With the inside of my eye oozing out of a large gash, I never made it to the bus stop that day.
A profile of superhero painter Alex Ross. Six years ago I saw an exhibit of Ross’ art at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Following up on my item about Bernie Krigstein’s 8-page EC story “Master Race” being up for auction, it sold for the relatively low price of $600,000. Where will it go? To a museum in Belgium!
