Its very interesting to hear all three of you talk about these artists and era's of their work. Compiling interviews and doing research. And yes understandably some of what you speak on is filling in the gaps. What stands out to me, having worked for the big 2, and different editors is that making comics for these companies is a machine. They 'may' have an overall aesthetic at the time, a look the artist might be told to go for. Or maybe the editor gives the artist total freedom. Usually the editor likes the artists work but is focused on keeping pages coming in. The editor may love the 'Mucha' style your bringing into the page designs, but at the end of the day s/he'll say 'Cut that out and give me more pages!!!' I have worked on books where the publisher had the loudest voice, sometimes the editor, sometimes its the penciler. All depends. In the case where pages are due overnight, none of that matters. LOL I guess what I'm pointing out is that there's so much more to 'where the art is directed' then just the artists skill alone.
Cant wait for part 2, where im assuming you guys cover him finding his groove on Spawn, adding some Mcfarlaneisms & grit and the artwork going to the next level and become crazier. My favorite period of his career..
Capullo is such a great storyteller. I was 17 when X-Force was coming out. I hated all the late Liefeld and then into Pacella work. Would have been interesting to see the work that preceded Capullo on X-Force for context but you jumped to the last issue of the run which he notably had some time crunch on. My memory of those issues lets me down. I loved them all. Look back at them now and I can see why but they're an unbearable slog to read. When he left for Spawn, he still did the covers for 26, 27, 28...and my mates and I were like "he's coming back. See. He's doing covers as a placeholder then coming back. You'll see...". It would be 30+ years until a non-McFarlane book (Batman) and I was totally there for it. I'll save Spawn comments for the next video but on the Morrison issues and Violator? Not for me. Tragic that Sears never got to finish that Violator mini. The Morrison issues were just so and the Houdini issues that got added to that run were so pretty and so bad. [n.b. The Fatman on Batman interview with Capullo from years back is an amazingly frank one]
Hard disagree. I was there in 93 and I would care. All of the backlash of Capullo coming to Batman for the new 52 was due him having drawn Spawn for so long (though he'd been off it for ages).
Agreed 100%. All the excitement has vanished from his recent work for me. Everything from the beginning up to the end of his run on Spawn at issue 100 is just great.
I'm so glad I found this channel. Helps to fill the void left behind by Cartoonist Kayfabe a little bit. Looking forward to more episodes!
Thanks so much, that’s great to hear!
- Taylor
I loved Capullo’s work on Quasar from the start, as well as the evolution in X-Force. A master.
Man. This was fun. Capullo started off so good.
Thanks so much for watching!
- Taylor
Its very interesting to hear all three of you talk about these artists and era's of their work. Compiling interviews and doing research. And yes understandably some of what you speak on is filling in the gaps. What stands out to me, having worked for the big 2, and different editors is that making comics for these companies is a machine. They 'may' have an overall aesthetic at the time, a look the artist might be told to go for. Or maybe the editor gives the artist total freedom. Usually the editor likes the artists work but is focused on keeping pages coming in. The editor may love the 'Mucha' style your bringing into the page designs, but at the end of the day s/he'll say 'Cut that out and give me more pages!!!'
I have worked on books where the publisher had the loudest voice, sometimes the editor, sometimes its the penciler. All depends.
In the case where pages are due overnight, none of that matters. LOL
I guess what I'm pointing out is that there's so much more to 'where the art is directed' then just the artists skill alone.
Cant wait for part 2, where im assuming you guys cover him finding his groove on Spawn, adding some Mcfarlaneisms & grit and the artwork going to the next level and become crazier. My favorite period of his career..
I’d love to see an episode spotlighting Chris Sprouse
You should also probably cover:
Simon Bisley
John Cassaday
Tony Moore
Their suggestions that i picked😅
I am holding out forbthe Sergio Toppi episode
Stay tuned in the new year!
The art in that What If number 2 was Somme of the greatest I’d ever seen in a monthly at that time.
Capullo is such a great storyteller.
I was 17 when X-Force was coming out. I hated all the late Liefeld and then into Pacella work. Would have been interesting to see the work that preceded Capullo on X-Force for context but you jumped to the last issue of the run which he notably had some time crunch on. My memory of those issues lets me down. I loved them all. Look back at them now and I can see why but they're an unbearable slog to read. When he left for Spawn, he still did the covers for 26, 27, 28...and my mates and I were like "he's coming back. See. He's doing covers as a placeholder then coming back. You'll see...". It would be 30+ years until a non-McFarlane book (Batman) and I was totally there for it. I'll save Spawn comments for the next video but on the Morrison issues and Violator? Not for me. Tragic that Sears never got to finish that Violator mini. The Morrison issues were just so and the Houdini issues that got added to that run were so pretty and so bad.
[n.b. The Fatman on Batman interview with Capullo from years back is an amazingly frank one]
hell yes
Todd hired him in Spawn. Without Spawn nobody would care about Capullo.
Hard disagree. I was there in 93 and I would care. All of the backlash of Capullo coming to Batman for the new 52 was due him having drawn Spawn for so long (though he'd been off it for ages).
His work on Wolverine’s Revenge is 💩. Don’t think so, then stare at that issue #2 cover. The man hasn’t showed up for work, he’s in retirement mode.
Agreed 100%. All the excitement has vanished from his recent work for me. Everything from the beginning up to the end of his run on Spawn at issue 100 is just great.
We’ll talk about it in the The New Year! Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts. Thanks so much for watching!
- Taylor