Wizard Magazine issue 12, August 1992
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- August 1992, Wizard magazine 12 - Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg discuss:
• Jim Lee's WildCATs
• Image Comics
• Batman the Animated Series
• Jim Valentino's vigilante back-breaker: Shadowhawk
• Kevin Eastman's legendary publishing company: Tundra
• Palmer's Picks: the legacy of EC Comics and their continued influence on today's creators
• Bill Maus and parody comics galore
• Eric Treadaway: the Four Horseman and He-Man
• the Internet!?!
• Lobocop
• Steve Geppi and Artie Lange: Separated at birth?
Supplemental links:
* Creator's Edge, Tom Palmer's reflection on the Tundra column: palmerspicks.com/wizard-12-tun...
* Palmer's Picks, EC Comics: palmerspicks.com/wizard-11-12-...
* Big Numbers 3 scans of photocopies: glycon.livejournal.com/11817....
* Wild CATs animated intro: • WildC.A.T.S.
* Playlist of Jim Lee drawing videos. • Jim Lee drawing Wolverine
*complete compilation of GI JOE comic book commercials: • G.I.Joe Marvel comics ...
*Playlist of Batman Animated Series behind the scenes documentary bits: • Video
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For the record, Tundra helped out with Taboo #4 and then co-published volumes 5, 6, 7 and Taboo Especial. If I recall correctly, Tundra was initially envisioned as a "helping hand" for creators and less a traditional publisher. They helped out with Bratpack, so Rick Veitch's King Hell company logo is on the cover and Tundra's logo only appears inside the comic.
Looking back on this CK episode and Ed (about an hour in) saying that there aren’t too many Ed Piskor fans (in regards to someone who’d buy comic cuz its an Ed Piskor comic) while now, June 2021, Red Room just came out, it was one of (if not the #1) most anticipated Fantagraphics book to hit the shelves, especially considering pre-sales. I know from talk online and from talking with the guys down at my LCS, that Im not the only one who definitely picked it up (and happily paid extra for Jim’s awesome variant) for exactly the reason that its got Ed’s name on it. Funny how fast things have changed since this was first aired in January of 2019. Ed works his ass off and he deserves all the success in the world.
Plus, RR is just an awesome freaking book!
FINALLY.... The Comics Journal ;-).....psych!!!
Poor Valentino....I never really fit the mold of the other guys. Shadowhawk was one of the best-selling issues of early image. And he had great work for bigger books. But he was deconstructing comics waaaay back in the day in his series Normalman. That book has been kind of forgotten, but it's worth checking out for it's homages/sly digs at other comics. And it's short, so you don't have to invest much. Especially since no one remembers it.
A friend of mine worked at Stephen Platt’s studio in Toronto in the ‘90s. He was paid a kind of low hourly wage to draw backgrounds on Platt’s art. One night when he mentioned a character changed sizes a lot from panel to panel. He wasn’t given any more work after that.
Hey, Martin Emond was from New Zealand, not the UK. He started up a clothing company called Illicit that is still going today, they had a shop with his art all over the walls, and eventually opened a second shop with a tattoo parlour.
fromearthsend.blogspot.com/2013/03/remembering-martin-emond-1969-2004.html
Those Valiant comics went crazy in price for a while around this time. I remember I had all the original run of Rai and Archer and Armstrong and each one of those books was over $100 a piece (especially Rai). I traded all of them at shows for silver age green lantern books and some EC comics stuff (Wierd Science and Weird Fantasy I believe).
Man I love seeing these videos in my feed. Can't wait for TCJ.
Classic crossovers: Superman Vs. the Amazing Spiderman (1978), Batman vs The Incredible Hulk (1981), The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans (1982)
Another fantastic video gents. Thank you
We embraced the new artist showing up in around 88. If you were there you could see the change coming and it was exciting. I liked the artist owner changes but the backlash was being force fed stuff we knew wasn’t going to last. There were maybe 3 books we thought might have lasting abilities. The real real backlash towards Image from my perspective came when image had a tent in Chicago and guys like Gill Kane, Bernie Wrightson, Dave Stevens were all sitting at their tables with no one there. Within a year these guys were all but forgotten. Luckily they have regained their prominence historically speaking.
I had to make sure I was on the right video twice. You got me Jim!
"Grey Marrow" would've been an appropriate host for a Warren Magazine.
Valentino came out of the 70's mini-comix movement. A generation of punk cartoonists who felt like they were locked out of underground comix by the establishment seized on the developing photocopy technology to make their own mail-order comics. Eastman and Laird were also mini guys, as were Jim Woodring and someone I was always interested in named Rick McCollum. McCollum drew some Turtle issues and at one time Tundra had planned to publish his insane cosmic superheroes that he'd been developing in dozens of books like Horde and Superhero Terror. Tundra only got as far as putting out the Screaming Masks Sketchbook, which gives you a glimpse of the intensely detailed and paranoiac cosmology that McCollum had dreamed up.
Valentino was a solid artist. His Guardians of the galaxy is the only line up I acknowledge. Love me some Vance astro with captain Americas shield. Great review. So glad I found your channel.
That trollish title to that Jim Lee article is hilarious.
Howard_the_Duck I'm missing the joke; though I know it's there.
Big ups Battle Angel Alita, the way the Kishiro draws action is amazing
The Liefeld inking style on Bloodwulf seemed like he was going for some kind of Simon Bisley/ Keith Giffen mashup...I thought the end result was pretty cool.
This issue was the first Wizard I ever bought btw.
Giffen was doing his Trencher style art in Lobo Infanticide at the end of 1992. Liefeld was probably reading that while drawing Bloodwulf, which was published in march of '93.
Giffen's Infanticide covers look like the Trencher style (and predate the Trencher books by a quite a bit). But the interiors are much more like a Bisley style with heavier blacks and less line work than Trencher. We looked at issue 1 for the Wizard 15 episode. I just read issue 1. I was hoping for a Trencher style since the cover looks like it. But I found the whole issue enjoyable as a fan of the Bisley Lobo issues. So if you love those, give Infanticide a try. Another Trencher style book is Images of Shadowhawk 1-3. Man, that drawing and coloring style is nuts. Anyone know any other Giffen comics that look like Trencher or Images of Shadowhawk? - Jim
Darker Images' Bloodwulf does look a lot like Infanticide Giffen! - Jim
Btw, can you tell how excited I am to talk about Trencher?!? That is one of the strangest drawing styles I've ever seen in a comic. - Jim
For the Trencher completist there is also Blackball Comics #1, Trencher X-mas Bites (also from Blackball), and the uncomplete storyline intended for Blackball Comics #3. Which can be found in Mr. Monster volume 0. I loved that style, it's too bad Giffen lost interest in the story and style.
Sees new CARTOONIST KAYFABE video......Drops EVERYTHING to watch new CARTOONIST KAYFABE video,,,feels same excitement as catching COMICBOOK CONFIDENTIAL on cable.
Even if but very briefly, it was nice hearing Verotik actually get mentioned somewhere.
That BTAS demo was done at Animation House in Toronto. I believe it was sold on the strength of the demo. Animated by Greg Duffell (Directed??) Darlie Brewster and Claude Chiasson. Not too sure is anyone else worked on it.
16:32 LOL Ed always cracks me up
Gordon Rennie is a feature of 2000AD , one of the best writters for this last 20 years there….
Playing catch-up with these videos, love that Eastman interview with the interview we’d expect to come from Groth. Looking forward to when you all dive into that
www.tcj.com/the-kevin-eastman-interview-part-i/
Frank Miller had a Sin City letters page editorial about people apeing his style. No names mentioned but clearly you know who he is talking about.
And Miller was aping a couple of guys himself though; notably Alberto Breccia.
Geppi's Entertainment Museum was incredible but sadly closed last year.
What did you guys think of that Image documentary that SyFy made?
Bill Mauz!! 🥰
If you think about it, the storytelling you have found in Alita can be found in Savage Dragon. Sure, it's super hero comic, but it had a story to tell, a clear, honest direction, and the panels composition worked perfectly for it. You could feel it, that Erik Larsen knew what he wanted to accomplish. That's why it was maybe the best Image comic, good art in a top notch story. I tried to think the same why on spawn but it was many times just stories build over ideas and gimmicks, you could feal that there wasn't a clear path. Sure, it was cool but, at least for me, far less interesting and appealing (an example spawn's energy counter... you could feel that at some point it was hard to control for Todd and that he lost interest).
i have a collection of old comic shop news papers filled with adds that i got in the early 90s. i would love to send them to you guys and hear you talk about them. how can i do this?
Flaxen... notably for early Brian Bendis work.
41:45 I been wanting to get into Mr Monster can anyone recommend an entry point? eclipse, darkhorse...?
Piskor here. I confess Mr. Monster is an Eddie P. blindspot.
I was 27 at this time and the entire thing [for me] was so overblown. I enjoyed some of it but for the most part I lived in another universe. I made money on all of this stuff but for me even now it just never had a chance of standing the test of time. I t simply has not but I applaud you guys for focusing on this part of history. It's been nostalgic in some ways for me. But perspective is everything.
Shit...I used to have that Batman animated book. It went in the sell off after the last apartment in Brooklyn. It was a favorite of mine as well...I could kick myself for selling it.
Turbo Teen in the house!
In 1998 I acquired a full box of EERIE and CREEPY for $40. Like an idiot, threw it away when I moved in 2001. Taught me a lot about drawing anyway. Still got my Marvel UK Universal Soldier #1 though.
56:45 laughed pretty hard.
That unmasked Shadow Hawk looks just like Kanye.
You were confused by the people who wanted the industry to change but were also mad at Image. I don’t think the problem was that they didn’t want change but they wanted it to come from guys they respected like Simonson and Byrne and Chaplin, not young dudes who don’t appear to have logged much time in figure drawing classes. .
After I watched the first couple of BtAS docs on your link I grabbed the new bluray box set off my shelf to see if they had any new special features and I found the Heart of Batman! ua-cam.com/video/h_ojmH3qtn4/v-deo.html
It's like that Batman Animated book by Chip Kidd had come to life! Right before the interlude you can see on of the artists referencing Kirby's Black Racer at the drawing board!
grifter isnt punisher, he's gambit with guns