Steve Stanchfield of Cartoon Research presents this cartoon for St. Patrick’s Day.
Category: Cartooning
Sterankohio
She says it again! Wendy Swick, Public Relations Coordinator for the Butler Institute of American Art, repeats the claim that Steranko was Stan Lee’s right-hand man. I am making inquiries to determine where this erroneous idea originated.
Getting More of an Inkling
I’m going to direct you over to Mark Evanier’s widely-read News From ME blog. He has inside information and interesting insights regarding DC’s bosses assigning an inker for Jack Kirby after he moved there from Marvel.
Seduction of the Gullible
The closest thing to TCM on broadcast TV is the Movies! TV Network. Here in Boston it’s found on standard definition sub-channel 17-2 [later 38-5]. The station recently showed While the City Sleeps (1956), directed by Fritz Lang. On TCM the movie comes without commercials and with Eddie Muller’s always inciteful and enlightening commentary.
Estes Kefauver was a politician with Presidential aspirations, whose Senate committee on organized crime was depicted in The Godfather Part II.
Kefauver saw a connection between organized crime and juvenile delinquency, which the notorious Dr. Frederick Wertham insisted had a direct correlation to kids reading comic books. Which of course it didn’t. This clip is from a TV show that was directed by Irvin Kershner, the director of the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back.
By the way, the comic book killer in the movie was played by Drew Barrymore’s dad.
Steranko Tweets
There’s a Jim Steranko fan group on Facebook, but Steranko himself doesn’t post there. He’s on Twitter.
Steranko Country
Today through May 29, Jim Steranko has an exhibit of his paintings at the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio.
I must take strong exception to the curator’s statement that Stan Lee considered Steranko to be “his best,” and “his right-hand man, in a way.” That distinction, without question, belonged to Jack Kirby.
Correction: Wendy Swick is not the curator, she is the Public Relations Coordinator at the museum.