Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day
Added 2023-02-15 01:51:33 +0000 UTCDon't remember where or when this card was handed to me, 90's convention, I'm sure (most likely SDCC). Like so many nifty-sounding comic industry get-together projects, it didn't go anywhere. We couldn't get a bunch of Kirby-inspired drawings published (character rights issues? organizers too busy with deadlines? logistical nightmare? lost interest?) and people wonder why we've never have had a union. They couldn't keep the WAP! newsletter going (owing folks like me a refund). Oh, well. It's not like I helped organize anything. I'm a contributor and participant, I can't even adequately organize my sock drawer.
The back of the card reads:
"Definitely".
I don't remember any mailings. But I was happy I was given a card, I hoped it meant I might have a shot at doing something for it. I don't remember who gave it to me. I actually had enough interaction with Frank back then that it's possible he was who I got it from.
I'm assuming the contact information is no longer valid after thirty years, but obviously, please don't call the numbers. Frank Miller is definitely not there, and if somehow you actually got Evanier to pick up, he'd just talk for hours about working on the Garfield cartoon or having lunch with Tim Conway or whatever.
Anyway, I'm always happy to celebrate Jack Kirby, of course.
Comments
Holy Terror was ...umm not good. I'm happy I saw it in the library. But yeah, people are complex for sure.
William Hernandez
2023-02-23 05:51:51 +0000 UTCPeople are complicated. I have interacted socially with him on a number of occasions and got along with him well. He's always been cool with me (well, there was that one time in San Diego where he started ragging on me and David Lapham for wearing similar shirts, which led to him making fun of one of my freelance jobs, and then I shut him down in front of a lot of Dark Horse folks, and while it was one of my finest moments, the joke was ultimately on me in a way that makes sense if I got into the details). But there are reactionary things he's said and put into his work that I absolutely disagree with, and Holy Terror was just an ugly piece of work in every sense of the word. I never knew him well enough to have any great insight into his life or motivations. There's gossip, of course, and he's obviously gone through some things, health-wise. I've spent time talking to him and we worked together on a couple of pages and he's said some kind things about my humor comics in interviews, But I'm just a bystander on the sidelines like most everyone else. He's a real question mark for me.
Evan Dorkin
2023-02-23 02:55:56 +0000 UTCI remember at one of the MOCCA's when it was in the Puck building Frank Miller coming over to your table to talk to you. Also remember that he was super cool when I approached him in the hallway and asked him if he was doing any new comics. That is a man who really loves comics. Unless he went totally batshit crazy crazy in the last twenty years I'd like to think he is just as cool now.
William Hernandez
2023-02-15 04:50:22 +0000 UTC
