The next generation of superstars were being cultivated by Michael Turner in 2004 but when he passed, guys like Talent Caldwell got forgotten by the industry & the people that took over Aspen and other art-centric companies decided that tumblr artists were totally the next big thing. And then comics died.
This. And Michael Turner would be vilified today for his ability to draw a beautiful girl. Talent Caldwell is one of those guys who tried to pave his own way and has paid for it.
I'd need to re-read it, but I think that first Witchblade series was kind of the proto-decompressed comic. It was really refreshing and interesting back then, but like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Whedon's writing, it lost it's charm when when everyone started copying it. At least, that's a theory of mine. I miss Michael Turner almost as much as I miss J. Scott Campbell actually drawing comics and not just the covers. How much money would he make on IGG, right?
-"Well thanks for coming. We've interviewed a lot of candidates and we'll let you know about the job in couple of days. Do you have any questions?" -"No, not really. Since you asked me to take my shoes and socks off, and you have bookcases with no books in them, frankly I'm more interested in leaving the building alive."
It's kind of simple... to be creative is to take risks. Big business isn't fond of taking "risks". As the big two lose their identity to corporations, they lose their ability to be creative and innovative. Things become safe based on current trends. Risk-takers and creative-thinkers are trend-setters. Not trend-followers. The current era of deconstructionists in comics exists because it's safe to deconstruct. To create or build is to take a risk. It's also easy to tell a reader "this book ISN'T for you" than to say "this book MIGHT be for you". In the first statement, the business has the power (even if it's the power to undo themselves) but in the second statement, the customer has the power (the power to decide whether or not they support the business). Repeat ad infinitum and you have the comic industry for the past 3 to 5 years.
You've made a simple but accurate statement about the current comics industry. And any well deserved success you earn is definitely a result of your risk taker status, which can only be seen as a threat by those who want a safe pay check over a productive career.
As kids we were "Jackass" before Jackass. Just nobody was around to film it. If you didn't almost die at least once every summer, you weren't doing it right.
And the truth is that with all the crap we did, the *_actual_* threat to our lives was almost non-existent. Now the SJWs live in glass houses and think they live in regular old homes and when they see each other's sins they eat each other alive in social media. Their crusade for safe spaces is not only pointless, but impossible. Life isn't and never was safe. So instead of learning to deal they've created an environment even more dangerous (in different ways of course) than the one we grew up in. So now we have skyrocketing suicide rates, depression is common, and the current risks to health from unforseen circumstances and sources is worse than it's been in almost a century. All because the leftist Socialists have done their best to ruin our society and bring about world Socialism through identity politics. Someone needs to go Savage Worldbreaker Hulk on them and remove the insidious infection of that ideology from the Western hemisphere.
@@theawkwardskeleton6608 experiment on your own time. When you're on the clock for ANY company, your first priority is the consumer. Only once you've mastered that principle can you THEN focus on experimentation. You cant have any pudding if you dont eat your meat.
I’ve got your next generation right here: Jon Malin, Kyle Ritter, Aron Alfeche, Rob Willis. Or at least they would be if the industry didn’t black ball them. The comic industry is insuring they don’t have a next generation
Ya Boi Zack: "Jack Kirby was a Gang member that got into fistfight and gun fight and that why he is a good comic writer." Solution for the comic industry Invest in for profit prison and have all the prisoner learn to make comic. Save the comic industry and help reform prisoners. It a Win Win.
Given the demographics of US prisons you'd end up with a lot of young creators of colour, and ones who have been through actual disadvantage and hardship in thier lives, as opposed to being insulted on Twitter or having had to settle for Yale when they wanted to go to MIT (unless those are the same place, I don't know how America works). Maximum woke points!
Superstar Artists were taken down, because comics want Writers to be the star. Superstar Artists will demand MONEY and POWER, that can't happen. Writers will follow the doctrine, to stay in the business, while if you're a great artist, you have to be actually be GOOD. Writers don't have to be GOOD to be in the comic book business. You just have to follow the "script".
Well said! I realized that when EVS mentioned The Walking Dead's original artist,how he was replaced early and Kirkman's name put all over everything! CG for life.
I think i still have to b a good writer in order for the comic to have good things in it. A good a script can make a good artist GREAT A bad script can make a great artist seem just okay.
The new Superstars will be the likes of Kyle Ritter, Aaron Alfecie and Karl O'Rowe. Comicsgate artists do much better work because they are hired and people buy on merit.
"..hungry to make their mark." No ones hungry anymore because they get all their attention from twitter. Even if someone with basically no experience like Zoe Quinn turns in a garbled mess, she can always run back to her twitter throne and lord over her "fanbase". Comics is just a means to further the ego for people like that. They dont care about mastering their craft. They just want to wave their job title in the face of percieved haters.
Today’s Generation, whatever they are called, are mostly a bunch of wussy “Church Ladies”, you can’t tell a joke or say anything without offending them and they call you a racist sexist fascist whatever, they are terrible
There are no more stars because they can't market themselves without saying, "I'm a non-binary queer woman of color!" And even that doesn't sell. The only new books that are any good are from older stars.
That's it. I'm going back to my parent's house, finding my old bike AND riding it without a helmet. All in the name of Ya Boi! I'm going to hurt myself and bleed while screaming "Meyer!". Oh wait someone else already does that part ... probably need a tire pump, wait no those are for wimps! Great video as always.
I am about your age too. I will always remember going downhill on my bike super fast acting like I am on the Death Star trench. I hit the wrong brake and the forward wheel locked. Got launch right on my face lol. Never again I mixed the brakes.
Some of those writers and artists could probably be a lot better if they had decent editors and mentors. I wonder if some of the Comics Gaters would be willing to take promising talent under their wings? Especially if they're looking to replace Marvel... Yes I know they already outsell marvel, but despite marvel mistreating its IPs horribly they has an awesome universe with a lot of lore and cross over potential. In order to get something like that Comics gate has to grow past individual settings and the only way to do that is to include more writers and artists.
No person without scars should ever be hired to work on superhero comics. Just occurred to me, do tats substitute for scars in the newer generations? Fake scars=bogus tough cred?
@Al Dente Not everybody, I agree. I ride motorcycles and see lots of tats on real deals. Sleeves in combination with no-ball jeans, rolled cuffs, and the smell of beard oil don't scare me much.
Superstar artists are here! Canan White, Keung Lee, Ben Jones, Jon Malin, Kyle Ritter, Donal Delay, Aron Alfachi, Brian Sherer and so many more. They're all right here creating amazing art.
Thanks, Zack, for reminding me how absolutely AWESOME my childhood was. We did all kinds of crazy stuff like climbing in boxcars on the railroad tracks, playing in swamps, climbing trees... the skinned knees, concussions and bruises were TOTALLY WORTH IT. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
We moved around alot growing up every, EVERY neighborhood had a dead mans hill. A ridiculously steep hill that you were goaded into blasting down on your bike.
Here in Ontario, Canada it is rare that anyone wears shoes in the house. We live in an area where half the year is slush and muddy snow on the ground, so you don’t track dirt in your floors by not wearing shoes.
Thanks for reminding me of the tussle I had with that barbed wire fence when I was 9! Mom thought I was dead! The bath afterwards hurt worse than the incident! Lmao! Miss you granny!😞 Love you mom!😁 Thanks Zack for some meaningful content!!
Pre phone addiction, post phone addiction . Young people don’t have old people’s attention span , plain and simple . I work with your people who can only work for 3 minutes at a time ..period . You can’t be great if you can’t concentrate for 8 hours a day
Again, Ya Boi Zack makes a great point. Today's stories are all about chatting and eating. Then you look at who is being hired to write, draw, and edit and it all makes sense.
So much of modern comics are either: A) cutesty fun with food and lol humor B) 4000 years ago, gods planned for the end of the world with a battle between Batman and uhhh Carnage? Sometimes, most of the time, I just want something simple. It can be grand in scale, but a one or two issue adventure with stakes, decent writing, and decent art. I don't want Steven Universe for my comics. I want Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman. Action, loss, drama.
Yeah, it's amazing how *zero* balls the comics industry has. And it's not just company men either-- the Indies used to be where iconoclasts would do their work, but now, that's an even more timid and stifled scene than the big 2. This happened to music in the 70's and we got Punk music out of it.
"Where are this generations Image hotshots?" Richard C Meyer (Jawbreakers) Jon Malin (Graveyard Shift) Micah Curtis (Englewood) Douglas Ernst (Soulbinder) Kyle Ritter (StarBlades) Indie GoGo is practically the new Image.
Great video Zack. Look at the way playgrounds have changed too. They used to be made out of concrete, wood, and metal. Now they're made out of plastic and look like they're made for toddlers. Those old metal slides used to be like 20 feet high. 10-15 foot high teeter-totters that your brother or sister would wait till you got up on the high end, and then they'd jump off. Metal Merry-Go-Rounds that were so well oiled that your buddies or parents would push so fast the G-Force would pull you right off. Now everything's safe. Everything's sanitized. Nothing's fun like it was. No one wants to get sued.
Geez, dude. I enjoy a lot of your stuff, but sometimes you make something that just NAILS it -- something where I want to go around and beg people who aren't even comics fans to watch the vid. This is one of those. Just beautiful.
I’m 15 and I see fights in school everyday, and when. I was younger I built tree forts and burritos made out of leaves, I don’t ge thing thing old people say, that kids are never do anything dangerous or go outside
Powers of X 3 is so good and Hickman is still zooming out slowly, pixel by pixel to show you a beautiful picture that Scott Snyder could never create in his wildest dreams
Zack! Remember how Portacio used to draw those crazy serrated deltoids and huge quads on every male superhero? Remember how friggin BADASS his Colossus used to look?
Montana, dead of winter at the trailer park bus stop ( the bus only stopped at the entrance to the park) my little brother got into a fight with a mouthy little jerk and rapidly ended it with a big womp alongside the head with his metal star wars lunch box. I can still hear it. Blood freezing to the side of his face he waked off home and we all got on the bus to cheers. No parental visits no school involvement no counseling or safe spaces. This vid is dead on, I fear for the future when “adults” running around these days make me, a generally easy going arteest creative type guy look like Conan the freakin barbarian. So glad I grew up when and where I did.
There is a fantastic artist who putts so much time, energy and passion into his work that no one talks about, James Stokoe. He should have the big two fighting each other, for him. Yet, he doesn't get the work that someone of skill and talent should be getting.
You may not like his work but Riley Rossmo popped up on my radar as a new artist I really like. His work on Batman/Shadow and now Martian Manhunter is fun to look at. It’s unique, dynamic and has character.
I still remember when i was in HS and my classmates and another kids(obviously all boys) from a lower grade were fighting outside our classroom in recess while the principal(male) and another teacher(male) were just cheering us on.LOL.
You used to be able to open a book and identify the artist right away. I'm the generation before this vid. Barry Smith, Starlin, Wrightson, Richard Corbin, Paul Gulacy, Sienkiwizc, Steranko, Mobius, I could go on. The point being you immediately knew who the artist was. I recently looked through a couple of dozen newer Marvel collections and couldn't distinguish one from the other and there were different names after the word "artist".
Okay mini-rant coming.... I do admit that i like most of Zack's video, but maybe once or twice a month he puts out content that i have to stop studying during so i can pay more attention, and then have to send is to immediately send to my friends once its over. This is one of those videos. Zack absolutely hit the nail on the head when he mentioned the spirit of competition. When i was listening @ 25:17 my FIRST thought was "damn, those are fighting words!" If i were Becky Cloonan, just HEARING those words would have me at the easel drawing my azz off thinking "I'll show that mother fracker a medium talent!" Will the real Becky do this? Perhaps. Most likely she will call Zack some sort of "-ist" and wait for more work to sooth her pain. Of course her cohorts will yass her to death, tweet to each other how bad a person Zack is anyway, and tell her how amazing she already is and doesn't need to get better. All those creators mentioned in the article had that kind of fire just as Zack said and guess who benefited? THE CUSTOMERS. Lines were out the door for their books, and we were buying 3 or 4 copies at a time to the point where they had to LIMIT how many you could buy just so everyone had a chance to get one. Imagine being that creator today tweeting out a picture of customers waiting in line a store with the caption "customers in line for my latest comic run" and then having other creators see that picture only to fire them up more to do better. Customers would be in the Platinum Age because of this level of competition! Comics should be setting this world on fire as a visual medium since me live in a technological ages that FAVORS visual presentation, yet we watch as memes get viewed in the millions, but comics shops close across the country. Wow...that article even fired ME up. lol.
I think we're about the same age, Zach, and you got me remembering all the way back to when I was 5 or 6 (we moved the fall after I turned 6, so I know it was before then) in the late 70s. On one side of us lived my best friend Bradley's family (our mothers are still close, actually), and on the other this really nice older couple who wintered in Florida. In the summers, however, their two grandsons, who were about the same age as me and Brad, came to stay with them. How we _hated_ them, me and Brad. As long as they were at their grandparents we were at war, or at least whatever passes for such for youthful male primates. We made bows (using elastics for strings because we (fortunately) had no idea what we were doing), made plans, tried to set ambushes, threw crab apples, dumped sand and generally chased each other around sticks. And so long as no one got seriously hurt ALL the adults in 3 households just let us carry on, applying bandaids and lemonade as needed. That, to me, is a big part of what's missing for anyone who's grown up since the mid 90s or so. That lack of unsupervised play, as some mental health professionals much smarter than me have put it. I just wanted to share, hope someone gets a kick out my little story! xD
I love how the back drop of the interview was a sterile,barren house,that is probably just rented out to anyone filming whatever. It's like watching an adult film in the comfort in your newly purchased home and you see a kitchen that looks just like yours,and a dining room just like yours,and a living room just like yours...
Great content Zack, and as far as the Stallone theroy you mentioned that happens to me all the time bro; not just with YT either, even like Netflix I will think of an awesome flick from back in the day and all of a sudden BAMN there it is! Freaky to tell the truth. PS: more Luna bro, I mean come on don't be stingy my guy.😂👌
"...he had a history of masculine combat and fisticuffs...." and yet was still talented enough to create the sub genre of romance comics to market to young girls. showing a wide creative ability very few of todays "professionals" possess.
Zack, I think a lot of this is answered because SJWs are posers precisely as you stated. This same thing is happening in other hobbies, these kinds of people are squatters coming in not as genuine fans/lovers of the medium (whatever you want to call them). Instead they are simply chasing trends, these kinds of people aren't gamers, comic readers, what have you. I think you are exactly right that not only are they not fans but they actually hate/dislike the medium/hobby and the original fans themselves. Take for example gaming, these kinds of people don't play video games and even hate the idea of being a gamer entirely. Its sad really because anyone can tell you are very passionate and passionate fans deserve passionate creators. I just want you to know that passionate fans in other hobbies feel your pain and stand with you brother!
Pretty hard to build up superstars on major titles when your employees are actively erasing the purpose of the industry and screaming insults at customers.
Great artists are doing storyboards, illustrations and commitions - it gets them more money. Oh, and speaking of fist-fights, I tend to believe Bryan Hill is the coolest comic pro on twitter because he has been in fights and can probably one-punch most trolls with ease. Most others shout because they know they cannot.
Im at the Cloonen and Fowler part and this is something ive been thinking for a while, they dont see eachother as competition but comics back in the day when they all worked on the same floor drawing comics theyd see eachothers work and be pissed off theier work isnt as good as somebody elses so it raised their game, that environment bred friendly competition. Now theyll work alone at home surrounded by cat shit, post a crap piece of art online and wait for the npc to come swarming with compliments
I'm turning 36 this year and yeah we early Millennials (1980-1984) gave school yard beatings, fell of bikes and had real confrontation. The guys a bit younger than my little brother (31) half of them never hit anyone and haven't seen a real confrontation. I raise my voice to them and their mad because all they delt with was passive aggressive people. It's so sad it's funny!
There are some amazing artists on indiegogo, look at comics like Haunter of Dreams, Galactic Rodents of Mayhem, In Search of Sasha, Jawbreakers and more. I have been in a few fights, but I am glad I always wore a helmet on my bike with some of the crashes I have taken, ouch.
I like how you think it is weird to not have socks on in the house, yet it will take you 16 sessions across 3 weeks to watch one normal length TV episode.
The main reason is because Marvel doesn't want another Image, and DC is wondering when it'll come, so they don't pay the artists what they're worth and shy away from the good ones out of that fear.
I'm not supposed to tell you this but rich people take off their shoes when they swim in their money.
And here i thought it was just for blackmail purposes
Going to have to get used to wearing socks and shoes again eh Cecil?
I thought it was because they wanted to so off to Tarantino.
Cecil, what do people who scare their sister's dog walkers because they are getting day drunk in masks wear inside?
Rich people can afford indoor shoes.
Question: "Where are all the great young comic book artists?"
Answer: "ComicsGate"
Think they are talking about artist from the new generation. I don't think artist in comicsgate are in their 20's
@@monkeydude2424 Kyle Ritter is, last I checked. And he's a genius
The next generation of superstars were being cultivated by Michael Turner in 2004 but when he passed, guys like Talent Caldwell got forgotten by the industry & the people that took over Aspen and other art-centric companies decided that tumblr artists were totally the next big thing. And then comics died.
Keep Rocking! Ladies & gentlemen.... don’t do drugs. This is what it looks like
This. And Michael Turner would be vilified today for his ability to draw a beautiful girl. Talent Caldwell is one of those guys who tried to pave his own way and has paid for it.
I'd need to re-read it, but I think that first Witchblade series was kind of the proto-decompressed comic. It was really refreshing and interesting back then, but like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Whedon's writing, it lost it's charm when when everyone started copying it.
At least, that's a theory of mine. I miss Michael Turner almost as much as I miss J. Scott Campbell actually drawing comics and not just the covers. How much money would he make on IGG, right?
@Keep Rocking! , jealously looks good on you, mate. Keep it up.
I miss Michael Turner, he knew how to draw sexy women for sure
-"Well thanks for coming. We've interviewed a lot of candidates and we'll let you know about the job in couple of days. Do you have any questions?"
-"No, not really. Since you asked me to take my shoes and socks off, and you have bookcases with no books in them, frankly I'm more interested in leaving the building alive."
It's kind of simple... to be creative is to take risks. Big business isn't fond of taking "risks". As the big two lose their identity to corporations, they lose their ability to be creative and innovative. Things become safe based on current trends. Risk-takers and creative-thinkers are trend-setters. Not trend-followers. The current era of deconstructionists in comics exists because it's safe to deconstruct. To create or build is to take a risk. It's also easy to tell a reader "this book ISN'T for you" than to say "this book MIGHT be for you". In the first statement, the business has the power (even if it's the power to undo themselves) but in the second statement, the customer has the power (the power to decide whether or not they support the business). Repeat ad infinitum and you have the comic industry for the past 3 to 5 years.
Wow, that's well said.
@@ontledingen3348 Thanks!
You've made a simple but accurate statement about the current comics industry. And any well deserved success you earn is definitely a result of your risk taker status, which can only be seen as a threat by those who want a safe pay check over a productive career.
Great point Peter
As kids we were "Jackass" before Jackass. Just nobody was around to film it. If you didn't almost die at least once every summer, you weren't doing it right.
And the truth is that with all the crap we did, the *_actual_* threat to our lives was almost non-existent.
Now the SJWs live in glass houses and think they live in regular old homes and when they see each other's sins they eat each other alive in social media. Their crusade for safe spaces is not only pointless, but impossible. Life isn't and never was safe.
So instead of learning to deal they've created an environment even more dangerous (in different ways of course) than the one we grew up in. So now we have skyrocketing suicide rates, depression is common, and the current risks to health from unforseen circumstances and sources is worse than it's been in almost a century.
All because the leftist Socialists have done their best to ruin our society and bring about world Socialism through identity politics. Someone needs to go Savage Worldbreaker Hulk on them and remove the insidious infection of that ideology from the Western hemisphere.
Consensus is the antithesis of creativity. It only produces a sterilized, unfocused mess.
Khan, WrathOf Experimentation is an example of how to get more creative, unique and new stories and ideas, though not without some failures.
@@theawkwardskeleton6608 experiment on your own time. When you're on the clock for ANY company, your first priority is the consumer. Only once you've mastered that principle can you THEN focus on experimentation.
You cant have any pudding if you dont eat your meat.
Khan, WrathOf good point. Thanks for the insight.
I’ve got your next generation right here: Jon Malin, Kyle Ritter, Aron Alfeche, Rob Willis. Or at least they would be if the industry didn’t black ball them. The comic industry is insuring they don’t have a next generation
Alejandro Mirabal
Wilis is great. Iv talked to him a few times. Hes a dedicated guy
CruderQuotient1 I think Andrea sorantino is really good too
Ya Boi Zack: "Jack Kirby was a Gang member that got into fistfight and gun fight and that why he is a good comic writer."
Solution for the comic industry Invest in for profit prison and have all the prisoner learn to make comic. Save the comic industry and help reform prisoners. It a Win Win.
In the next issue of SUPERMAN: Clark and Lois move to the hood
That's not a crazy idea
Given the demographics of US prisons you'd end up with a lot of young creators of colour, and ones who have been through actual disadvantage and hardship in thier lives, as opposed to being insulted on Twitter or having had to settle for Yale when they wanted to go to MIT (unless those are the same place, I don't know how America works). Maximum woke points!
Superstar Artists were taken down, because comics want Writers to be the star. Superstar Artists will demand MONEY and POWER, that can't happen. Writers will follow the doctrine, to stay in the business, while if you're a great artist, you have to be actually be GOOD. Writers don't have to be GOOD to be in the comic book business.
You just have to follow the "script".
Well said! I realized that when EVS mentioned The Walking Dead's original artist,how he was replaced early and Kirkman's name put all over everything! CG for life.
I think i still have to b a good writer in order for the comic to have good things in it.
A good a script can make a good artist GREAT
A bad script can make a great artist seem just okay.
Though i disagree with anyone over shadowing the work.
The new Superstars will be the likes of Kyle Ritter, Aaron Alfecie and Karl O'Rowe. Comicsgate artists do much better work because they are hired and people buy on merit.
Ya boi.
Oh man, this is awesome. Sean Gordon Murphy is officially my new favorite in what’s left of this failing, decrepit industry.
"..hungry to make their mark."
No ones hungry anymore because they get all their attention from twitter.
Even if someone with basically no experience like Zoe Quinn turns in a garbled mess, she can always run back to her twitter throne and lord over her "fanbase".
Comics is just a means to further the ego for people like that. They dont care about mastering their craft. They just want to wave their job title in the face of percieved haters.
Today’s Generation, whatever they are called, are mostly a bunch of wussy “Church Ladies”, you can’t tell a joke or say anything without offending them and they call you a racist sexist fascist whatever, they are terrible
There are no more stars because they can't market themselves without saying, "I'm a non-binary queer woman of color!" And even that doesn't sell. The only new books that are any good are from older stars.
That's it. I'm going back to my parent's house, finding my old bike AND riding it without a helmet. All in the name of Ya Boi! I'm going to hurt myself and bleed while screaming "Meyer!". Oh wait someone else already does that part ... probably need a tire pump, wait no those are for wimps! Great video as always.
"where are all the great new comic artists?" in Comicsgate being blacklisted from the industry
“Purse puppy petting-zoo of poorly drawn...” - I vote for “pablum” to go here.
Please
Man, I feel 10 years younger just by listening to this 💪😁👌
8:45 dude, that. Riding in the back of pickup trucks, "contact" pickup sports. Establishes all kinds of building blocks.
I am about your age too. I will always remember going downhill on my bike super fast acting like I am on the Death Star trench. I hit the wrong brake and the forward wheel locked. Got launch right on my face lol. Never again I mixed the brakes.
Some of those writers and artists could probably be a lot better if they had decent editors and mentors. I wonder if some of the Comics Gaters would be willing to take promising talent under their wings? Especially if they're looking to replace Marvel... Yes I know they already outsell marvel, but despite marvel mistreating its IPs horribly they has an awesome universe with a lot of lore and cross over potential. In order to get something like that Comics gate has to grow past individual settings and the only way to do that is to include more writers and artists.
No person without scars should ever be hired to work on superhero comics. Just occurred to me, do tats substitute for scars in the newer generations? Fake scars=bogus tough cred?
@Al Dente Not everybody, I agree. I ride motorcycles and see lots of tats on real deals. Sleeves in combination with no-ball jeans, rolled cuffs, and the smell of beard oil don't scare me much.
@@roblee1066 no-ball jeans?
@@christinhell Those skinny jeans that have no room for testicles. If those boys have any they must tuck them in somewhere.
Superstar artists are here! Canan White, Keung Lee, Ben Jones, Jon Malin, Kyle Ritter, Donal Delay, Aron Alfachi, Brian Sherer and so many more. They're all right here creating amazing art.
Videos like this are why people look to you as one of the Indie Comic infantry field officers.
Ya Boi!
Back in the day, a good fist fight was how I got to know most of my best pals. Even BB gun fights. Good times.
I never wore a helmet growing up even after the laws started coming out. I refused.
You have to say those Mr Plinkett quotes properly:
"You might not have noticed .... but your BRAAAAIIIIN did"
Seriously, Ya Boi, thank god we have you, Jon Malin, EVS and many others making their own books to keep comics alive.
Greg Capullo is legit.
Thanks, Zack, for reminding me how absolutely AWESOME my childhood was. We did all kinds of crazy stuff like climbing in boxcars on the railroad tracks, playing in swamps, climbing trees... the skinned knees, concussions and bruises were TOTALLY WORTH IT. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
We moved around alot growing up every, EVERY neighborhood had a dead mans hill. A ridiculously steep hill that you were goaded into blasting down on your bike.
Here in Ontario, Canada it is rare that anyone wears shoes in the house. We live in an area where half the year is slush and muddy snow on the ground, so you don’t track dirt in your floors by not wearing shoes.
Thanks for reminding me of the tussle I had with that barbed wire fence when I was 9!
Mom thought I was dead! The bath afterwards hurt worse than the incident! Lmao!
Miss you granny!😞 Love you mom!😁
Thanks Zack for some meaningful content!!
Pre phone addiction, post phone addiction . Young people don’t have old people’s attention span , plain and simple . I work with your people who can only work for 3 minutes at a time ..period . You can’t be great if you can’t concentrate for 8 hours a day
Again, Ya Boi Zack makes a great point. Today's stories are all about chatting and eating. Then you look at who is being hired to write, draw, and edit and it all makes sense.
No need for me to try to say something clever or funny. You nailed it Zack, with every word you said.
So much of modern comics are either:
A) cutesty fun with food and lol humor
B) 4000 years ago, gods planned for the end of the world with a battle between Batman and uhhh Carnage?
Sometimes, most of the time, I just want something simple. It can be grand in scale, but a one or two issue adventure with stakes, decent writing, and decent art. I don't want Steven Universe for my comics. I want Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman. Action, loss, drama.
Yeah, it's amazing how *zero* balls the comics industry has. And it's not just company men either-- the Indies used to be where iconoclasts would do their work, but now, that's an even more timid and stifled scene than the big 2. This happened to music in the 70's and we got Punk music out of it.
"Where are this generations Image hotshots?"
Richard C Meyer (Jawbreakers)
Jon Malin (Graveyard Shift)
Micah Curtis (Englewood)
Douglas Ernst (Soulbinder)
Kyle Ritter (StarBlades)
Indie GoGo is practically the new Image.
I have great love for Greg Capullo's visual style and his effort in his art work.
Great video Zack. Look at the way playgrounds have changed too. They used to be made out of concrete, wood, and metal. Now they're made out of plastic and look like they're made for toddlers. Those old metal slides used to be like 20 feet high. 10-15 foot high teeter-totters that your brother or sister would wait till you got up on the high end, and then they'd jump off. Metal Merry-Go-Rounds that were so well oiled that your buddies or parents would push so fast the G-Force would pull you right off. Now everything's safe. Everything's sanitized. Nothing's fun like it was. No one wants to get sued.
Wearing shoes in the house is nasty. Just clean your damn house, and you don’t have to wear shoes inside.
Geez, dude. I enjoy a lot of your stuff, but sometimes you make something that just NAILS it -- something where I want to go around and beg people who aren't even comics fans to watch the vid. This is one of those. Just beautiful.
Zack Zack don't you know shoes are for the poor rich people have to show off their finally pedicured feet.
“...I have only one rule. All your piggies must be out.” (Gagging). Lol. Almost crashed soo funny!
I’m 15 and I see fights in school everyday, and when. I was younger I built tree forts and burritos made out of leaves, I don’t ge thing thing old people say, that kids are never do anything dangerous or go outside
"... because of their plumbing..." Just laughed out loud inappropriately at work... (Truth though.)
When you're Todd McFarlane, shoes are just holding you back, man!
*PIGGIES OUT*
Powers of X 3 is so good and Hickman is still zooming out slowly, pixel by pixel to show you a beautiful picture that Scott Snyder could never create in his wildest dreams
Zack! Remember how Portacio used to draw those crazy serrated deltoids and huge quads on every male superhero? Remember how friggin BADASS his Colossus used to look?
Montana, dead of winter at the trailer park bus stop ( the bus only stopped at the entrance to the park) my little brother got into a fight with a mouthy little jerk and rapidly ended it with a big womp alongside the head with his metal star wars lunch box. I can still hear it. Blood freezing to the side of his face he waked off home and we all got on the bus to cheers. No parental visits no school involvement no counseling or safe spaces. This vid is dead on, I fear for the future when “adults” running around these days make me, a generally easy going arteest creative type guy look like Conan the freakin barbarian. So glad I grew up when and where I did.
The artist working with me has helped me a lot with my writing. He comes up with some great set pieces for the script.
Consensus = "Yes, we are all individuals!" (See what I did there?)
There is a fantastic artist who putts so much time, energy and passion into his work that no one talks about, James Stokoe. He should have the big two fighting each other, for him.
Yet, he doesn't get the work that someone of skill and talent should be getting.
There's a lot of New Blood...
Unfortunately the industry is a vampire.
This is one of your best videos. Zack's takes are the best takes.
Zack, it's time to roll up your sleeves and become the next Marvel comics. It's your destiny be the next great, like Stan Lee or Jack kirby.
I had never heard of Bass Reeves. Very cool! I love the old west. That moustache is a BEAST, and deserves its own mini-series.
You may not like his work but Riley Rossmo popped up on my radar as a new artist I really like. His work on Batman/Shadow and now Martian Manhunter is fun to look at. It’s unique, dynamic and has character.
I still remember when i was in HS and my classmates and another kids(obviously all boys) from a lower grade were fighting outside our classroom in recess while the principal(male) and another teacher(male) were just cheering us on.LOL.
You used to be able to open a book and identify the artist right away. I'm the generation before this vid. Barry Smith, Starlin, Wrightson, Richard Corbin, Paul Gulacy, Sienkiwizc, Steranko, Mobius, I could go on. The point being you immediately knew who the artist was. I recently looked through a couple of dozen newer Marvel collections and couldn't distinguish one from the other and there were different names after the word "artist".
Okay mini-rant coming....
I do admit that i like most of Zack's video, but maybe once or twice a month he puts out content that i have to stop studying during so i can pay more attention, and then have to send is to immediately send to my friends once its over. This is one of those videos. Zack absolutely hit the nail on the head when he mentioned the spirit of competition. When i was listening @ 25:17 my FIRST thought was "damn, those are fighting words!" If i were Becky Cloonan, just HEARING those words would have me at the easel drawing my azz off thinking "I'll show that mother fracker a medium talent!" Will the real Becky do this? Perhaps. Most likely she will call Zack some sort of "-ist" and wait for more work to sooth her pain. Of course her cohorts will yass her to death, tweet to each other how bad a person Zack is anyway, and tell her how amazing she already is and doesn't need to get better.
All those creators mentioned in the article had that kind of fire just as Zack said and guess who benefited? THE CUSTOMERS. Lines were out the door for their books, and we were buying 3 or 4 copies at a time to the point where they had to LIMIT how many you could buy just so everyone had a chance to get one. Imagine being that creator today tweeting out a picture of customers waiting in line a store with the caption "customers in line for my latest comic run" and then having other creators see that picture only to fire them up more to do better. Customers would be in the Platinum Age because of this level of competition! Comics should be setting this world on fire as a visual medium since me live in a technological ages that FAVORS visual presentation, yet we watch as memes get viewed in the millions, but comics shops close across the country.
Wow...that article even fired ME up. lol.
This is an excellent video. I got about 11 minutes in and had to walk over and rewind. You have a really good outside
I think we're about the same age, Zach, and you got me remembering all the way back to when I was 5 or 6 (we moved the fall after I turned 6, so I know it was before then) in the late 70s. On one side of us lived my best friend Bradley's family (our mothers are still close, actually), and on the other this really nice older couple who wintered in Florida. In the summers, however, their two grandsons, who were about the same age as me and Brad, came to stay with them.
How we _hated_ them, me and Brad. As long as they were at their grandparents we were at war, or at least whatever passes for such for youthful male primates. We made bows (using elastics for strings because we (fortunately) had no idea what we were doing), made plans, tried to set ambushes, threw crab apples, dumped sand and generally chased each other around sticks. And so long as no one got seriously hurt ALL the adults in 3 households just let us carry on, applying bandaids and lemonade as needed.
That, to me, is a big part of what's missing for anyone who's grown up since the mid 90s or so. That lack of unsupervised play, as some mental health professionals much smarter than me have put it.
I just wanted to share, hope someone gets a kick out my little story! xD
This is one of the best videos in a while. This video is ya boi Zack as combination drill sergeant/straight-talking (pun intended) coach.
That’s Capullo’s new house they’re in. He’s kinda loaded.
I love how the back drop of the interview was a sterile,barren house,that is probably just rented out to anyone filming whatever.
It's like watching an adult film in the comfort in your newly purchased home and you see a kitchen that looks just like yours,and a dining room just like yours,and a living room just like yours...
Great content Zack, and as far as the Stallone theroy you mentioned that happens to me all the time bro; not just with YT either, even like Netflix I will think of an awesome flick from back in the day and all of a sudden BAMN there it is! Freaky to tell the truth.
PS: more Luna bro, I mean come on don't be stingy my guy.😂👌
I feel like Riccardo Federici is a good candidate. His work on aquaman was insane. Also Jorge Jimenez is pretty great.
The leaves on the leopard dude at first made him look like he had dinosaur back scallops.
I love your videos. You spit such hard truths. You break it down.
Testify, my brother, testify!
U make some great points in this vid
Awww yeah! Another Zack video for the drive home.
"...he had a history of masculine combat and fisticuffs...."
and yet was still talented enough to create the sub genre of romance comics to market to young girls.
showing a wide creative ability very few of todays "professionals" possess.
Zack, I think a lot of this is answered because SJWs are posers precisely as you stated. This same thing is happening in other hobbies, these kinds of people are squatters coming in not as genuine fans/lovers of the medium (whatever you want to call them). Instead they are simply chasing trends, these kinds of people aren't gamers, comic readers, what have you. I think you are exactly right that not only are they not fans but they actually hate/dislike the medium/hobby and the original fans themselves. Take for example gaming, these kinds of people don't play video games and even hate the idea of being a gamer entirely. Its sad really because anyone can tell you are very passionate and passionate fans deserve passionate creators.
I just want you to know that passionate fans in other hobbies feel your pain and stand with you brother!
It's like I always say, "If you haven't been arrested for public brawling you're not a real artist"
Comics have future, but it's not the old guard.
Pretty hard to build up superstars on major titles when your employees are actively erasing the purpose of the industry and screaming insults at customers.
This is an excellent seminar !
Great artists are doing storyboards, illustrations and commitions - it gets them more money.
Oh, and speaking of fist-fights, I tend to believe Bryan Hill is the coolest comic pro on twitter because he has been in fights and can probably one-punch most trolls with ease. Most others shout because they know they cannot.
Im at the Cloonen and Fowler part and this is something ive been thinking for a while, they dont see eachother as competition but comics back in the day when they all worked on the same floor drawing comics theyd see eachothers work and be pissed off theier work isnt as good as somebody elses so it raised their game, that environment bred friendly competition.
Now theyll work alone at home surrounded by cat shit, post a crap piece of art online and wait for the npc to come swarming with compliments
Ok this video convinced me that comicsgate is the natural evolution of the financial and creative stagnation in the comic book industry.
When Wizard magazine vanished it took all the importance of the superstar artist with them.
A return to form ... great critique!
I'm turning 36 this year and yeah we early Millennials (1980-1984) gave school yard beatings, fell of bikes and had real confrontation. The guys a bit younger than my little brother (31) half of them never hit anyone and haven't seen a real confrontation. I raise my voice to them and their mad because all they delt with was passive aggressive people. It's so sad it's funny!
There are some amazing artists on indiegogo, look at comics like Haunter of Dreams, Galactic Rodents of Mayhem, In Search of Sasha, Jawbreakers and more.
I have been in a few fights, but I am glad I always wore a helmet on my bike with some of the crashes I have taken, ouch.
For that fistfight analogy, does it count if you've been bullied and you fought back at them?
As kids we went to Action Park , coming home bleeding was part the experience.
That was a marine level rant
JIM LEE IS ASCENDING
I have the same peeve: people, and especially men, should always have covered feet when in public.
My pet peeve is people who wear their pajama pants out of the house. Put some goddamn pants on, get your shit in order
I like how you think it is weird to not have socks on in the house, yet it will take you 16 sessions across 3 weeks to watch one normal length TV episode.
Hiring on merit?
Not anymore.
Hire me because diversity.
That alway ensures the very best product.
5:22-30 That's Oregon Football's National Championship Trophy case.
"It's frickin empty!" -Ya Boi Zack
All that nice furniture and they sit in fold-up chairs?!?! THAT'S the takeaway from this video
Great video. Thanks Z!
Oh, and Donald Duck comics from the 50's (made by Carl Barks) are EFFING AWESOME.
The main reason is because Marvel doesn't want another Image, and DC is wondering when it'll come, so they don't pay the artists what they're worth and shy away from the good ones out of that fear.