Category: Cartooning
AE for mih – EC Edition
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My First Favorite Marvel Artist
John Romita became my first favorite Marvel artist with the first Marvel Comic I bought, Daredevil #19.
Romita wasn’t a flashy artist, and he wasn’t a fast artist. He was a dedicated, hard-working professional whose attractive style greatly expanded the popularity of Spider-Man after the departure of co-creator Steve Ditko.
John Romita passed away in his sleep Monday night at age 93, leaving us with one fewer of the few remaining comic book creators of the Silver Age.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/arts/john-romita-sr-dead.html
More Fan Chat
Denro and I were at the Albany Comic Con today. We were flipping through a portfolio of Spider-Man comic strip original art belonging to our pal, Joe Sinnott’s son Mark, who told us the run of syndicated reprints is coming to an end. On my phone I opened the Washington Post app and brought up today’s reprint.
At that moment Denro landed on a piece of original art and said, “Hey, I think this is it!” Indeed it was.
Most of the originals in the portfolio were autographed by Stan Lee, but not this one, because Stan had passed away the previous November. Losing Stan knocked the wind out of Joe’s sails, and King Features deciding to let the Spider-Man strip die with Stan didn’t help, leading to Joe having some assistance when completing the final batch of strips.
Fan Chat
Word is circulating among comic book fans that Barry Windsor-Smith suffered an Ischemic stroke in May. He reportedly spent about a week in a hospital.
World Eater
From bankruptcy to all-powerful franchise, Marvel is now Galactus, consuming everything in its path, as covered in the latest New Yorker issue.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/how-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-swallowed-hollywood
That illustration reminds me of a painting that Wally Wood did for a TV Guide article in 60s, when superheroes were taking over Saturday morning cartoons.
