The above image is from
The Marvel Try-Out Book from back in the eighties. A comic book presented on 11"x17" 2 ply bristol board. A few pages complete but without color. Next a few complete sans color and inks. The pencils were printed in non-repro blue. These were followed by pages without word balloons (but with a script on an opposite page) and with rougher pencil, and then without words or pencils, but with plot, and finally I think, without even plot.
Since I don't have my penciled pages around, I assume they must've been really awful. I rarely throw my work away.
At the time I thought my inking was okay, though I never sent those pages in either. As with the above image (inked over
John Romita Jr.'s blue lined pencils), it's pretty clear (now, at least) that some of my embellishments were a bit heavy handed at times, and at others, maybe a bit too sketchy.
It'd be cool if they kept putting out more of these, but I believe one more was created maybe in the nineties, featuring the
X-Men. I understand the penciled pages were printed in black which meant the extra hassle of tracing and transferring.
Speaking of
J. Jonah Jameson, on one of my
recent, barely coherent rants, I discussed some long held ideas I had about
Spiderman, but forgot about the publisher of the
Daily Bugle. I'd recently read an article at
Newsarama.com about some upcoming crap at Marvel. I don't remember the specifics, but some writer or editor stated an intention to cast J. Jonah Jameson in the mold of
Rupert Murdoch. Or vice-versa. I don't like what Murdock has done to newspapers and I don't care for the
Fox News network. It's also obvious that Jameson's a dick and that little Hitler mustache isn't really doing him any favors. But Jameson is not a Conservative. His concern that law enforcement should be held accountable (not possible with masked vigilantes) is a classic riff of the political left. Especially considering the actual history of the masked vigilante in the
U.S. of
A.
Speaking of upcoming crap at Marvel,
here's a link to a Newsarama article (speaking of newsarama articles) that contains some really cool
Dr. Strange artwork. I like the
Vincent Price look. In the beginning,
Steve Ditko kinda made him look Chinese or something. I'd like to see them do something with that eventually. There's also a new
Eternals series by
Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr. (speaking of JR Jr.). Mentioned a while back on a
Jack Kirby newsgroup, this could lead to a compilation of the original series, which would make me real happy.
There's a reprint collection of 1970's
Nova comics in Marvel's Essentials line. Those thick black and white phone book collections. That was one of my favorite books, back in the day, though he and I came from different versions of
Hempstead, Long Island. His version of
Hempstead High School was all white except for his one Black friend, while my version (Nova might've been cancelled by the time I was high school aged - I forget) was mostly Black and I had a few White friends.
Jenny, Jenny, Everywhere....
Jenny Everywhere is a copyright free e-comic character who exists everywhere at once, so any creator can do whatever they will and not worry about pesky things like continuity and whatnot. Some stories are better than others. Here's one I like:
Damn Fine Hostile Takeover -
part one and
part two.Labels: comics, dead links, Hempstead, non music projects, nostalgia, These pictures will come back to haunt me one day
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