J O yea Buscema is in my top 3 for sure, another genius that died at the board. Kirby’s composition is so good that if you blew it up like a Pollock and put it in a museum or modern home it would look awesome.. abstract impressionistic beauty. John Byrne was this 12 year olds hero in the late 70s and early eighties.

yup - me too

I grew up with Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, later Mark Bagley, I thought his stuff was primitive and bad. Until I just started reading them, they were just super easy to read and action was second to none. He gets you hook line and sinker all of a sudden. His style is so easy to digest once you get it. When you start drawing you pick up even more stuff, like his technology looked like mosaics and futuristic at the same time. I had an engineer friend look at his tech and he says "that just look like it works even if he made everything up"

@Tak Toja lmao you're literally saying, "hey your american comics are cool, but it will never reach the level of the Frenchies"...

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Bryan Briggs yes. This was done before comics took over the mainstream. What is found everywhere now was once considered obscure or inaccessible content for a small audience.

Not really they are less accesible today than they were before.

Piricsi Remus Not sure I'd agree with you there, I mean there are comics for men, women, children, and readers of all types far more than there were back in 1987 when this movie first came out plus how much things are being reprinted non stop by companies such as IDW, Marvel Masterworks, DC reprints ranging from Golden Age to Silver Age to Bronze Age, Fantagraphics reprinting the Carl Barks Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge Library, Humanoids with their Moebius reprints I mean look at the inventory of places like Forbidden Planet, Austin Books, and online retailing such as Mile High and other places. IMHO there's way more out there than there's been in a long time.

Yes but where that s the key thing they are almost absolutely segregated into comic book shops or certain bookstores except for a couple european countries ,when i was a little kid you could get them at almost any newspaper stand for chumpchange they were right in your face so it was way more accessible than today that was my point.

Well yes that's true, Although you can still get them that way in some European countries and Japan. 7Eleven spinner racks and newsstands are pretty much no longer an option for comics, Although you can find some Double issue Archie digests and Sonic the Hedgehog digests at some grocery stores, The last time I remember groceries carrying comic books across the board was back in the early to mid 1990's, The one I used to work at would have some DC and Marvel and some early Image titles and also interestingly enough some EC Comics Horror reprints from the 1950's which I always thought was something of an irony being that they were legislated out of existence back in the 1950's to prevent them from being sold in groceries and newsstands in the first place. I remember our grocery magazine distributer went out of his way to try and hide the EC reprints putting them at the very back of the comic book selection we had, and I'd always go out of my way to put them at the very front of it. :-) LOL

@John Henry: How do you know that was Steve Ditko's voice? He doesn't appear, physically, in this film at all; at least in the video. I have heard that he is a very secretive guy who rarely, if ever, does interviews &, basically, just doesn't trust people. While it is possible that the words spoken, during his segment of this film, are his own words, written by him, it definitely seems possible, even likely, that a voice actor was used to represent him/his voice, due to his inability and/or unwillingness to participate on camera.

@@MorpheusOne True. Who knows. :)

@@MorpheusOne I’ve trawled the internet and can only find three photos of Ditko and one is from his high school yearbook. I think you’re right.

Neal Adams always fought for creators in the comic book industry, he tried to unionize comic artists in the 1970's

Oh yes. Tom Yeates was pretty good too.

Swamp Thing is the comic book that got me into comics. My favorite comic book character first appeared in Swamp Thing comics. John Constantine written by Alan Moore & drawn by Stephen Bissette, & John Tolteben with editor Karen Berger first appeared in Saga Of The Swamp Thing#37, 1985. The year before I was born. John Constantine aka the Hellblazer is my favorite comic book character of all time. I have every volume of his groundbreaking run in DC's mature imprint Vertigo. I have all 26 volumes of John Constantine Hellblazer. It's my favorite comic book series of all time. My second favorite character in comics is Swamp Thing written by Len Wein & drawn by Bernie Wrightson with editor Joe Orlando in House Of Secrets #92, 1971. I also have every Swamp Thing comic since his first appearance. I have every volume of this character since his inception.

You can if you try.

I looked up your friend Skip. Great story! You should do a book or a documentary about him. What happened to all of his art after he passed?

Spider-Man is literally the opposite of Objectivism lol

Kurtzman's breakdowns are pretty legendary, too. Crystal clear storytelling.

i thinjk so too. i was only exposed to his and Eisner's work in the 90's.their comics weren't available here in South Africa until then.

Saaid R Yeah me too, only because my comic reading started to branch out around then, I was really just into superhero stuff like the Grant/Breyfogle Detective Comics run and Steve Rude/Mike Baron's Nexus stuff. I have really catholic taste in comics, now, I don't read much cape stuff anymore at all, though. Have you heard of Joe Daly? He has a few books out from Fantagraphics, he's the only South African cartoonist I really know of, I have all of his stuff apart from his latest comic (which was a webcomic first).

Meh, Eisner wasn't fit to sharpen Moebiuses pencils

Thanks for watching, I forgot to check messages on here, sorry!

it's great Neal Adams is so young here :)

I agree completely! And even though he didnt create much, I always love listening to romita sr.

??? They should´ve put more european artists in here, we were in the "broze age" of comics back in 50s already... xDxD And comics are not american created, btw. The earliest known comic in history is "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" (by Rudolphe Töpffe, Switzerland, 1837). He also created the comic strip format in 1827, but many believe there are more Victorian age comicbooks that haven´t been discovered (yet). I also love Gil Kane, and John Romita Sr., but honestly... Who would you have taken out? xDxD

Didn't create much?

Bill Cashion You’ll enjoy the actual stories even more! I’m glad this helped you discover some of the pillars of the format and I’m jealous that you get to read some of this stuff for the first time. I love the days when I find a comic that I missed over the years and read it for the first time. Let me know if you’d like some recommendations. Cheers :)

Painting is extremely relaxing for me, windows open, afternoon sun; it is a great way to spend my 2 year olds nap time :)

TALK WITH HIM

TALK WITH HIM ALONE AT COMICON TOLD ME HIRED JOE KUBERT AND MANY OTHERS WE TALKED ABOUT PS MAGAZINE HE SAID PICTURES ARE THE WORDS OF THE WORK. REMBER ONE PICTURE IS A 1000 WORDS. AND ARMY NEED IT.

No good new comics these days?

Two ofmy favourites...in a time when uniqueness was celebrated...

i meant DITKO...

The 'narrator' is HARLAN ELLISON. You illiterate fuck. How's about drop the comics for just five seconds and read one of his stories...

Tone Hunter PLEASE! IT'S GROWN CHILDREN STUFF. PERIOD. I love the art... but face it in time NO ONE will remember any of these guys except thier fans. Regular ordinary folks don't even know who they are now. But ALL know Leonardo or Da Vinci. Just sayin.

Samuel Parker Leonardo or Da Vinci... OK.

Samuel Parker "IT'S GROWN CHILDREN'S STUFF." You mean like Robert Crumb's Zap Comix which covered topics ranging from The Vietnam War to Civil Rights to sex and drugs? Sorry, But Art Spiegelman's Maus, Chris Ware's 'Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth' very much qualify as literature, plus the fact that Maus won a Pulitzer and Jimmy Corrigan was mentioned by the Guardian and won several awards. Alan Moore's Watchmen was ranked in Time Magazine as one of the most 100 important novels of the 20th Century and it won several other awards and Hugo's. Neil Gaiman has become a well known author with a fair amount of name recognition and his Sandman comic is considered a work of fantasy right up there with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings and has been praised by authors ranging from Steven King to Harlan Ellison. As to how Sequential Art and it's creators are perceived '"in time" remember this is a young medium compared to the works of 'Leonardo or Da Vinci'?!? :-/ But just about EVERYONE knows who Charles Schultz was even regular ordinary folk. This medium has had a long hard fight to gain even a grudging respect by people and has survived being banned (Thank you Fredrick Wertham) and burned and bastardized. (Thank you Roy Lichtenstein, TOO MANY people know who he is IMHO, :-P Although he will never have anything close to the impact that a Jack Kirby or Robert Crumb had on the American art scene ) and COMICS have survived it all and are still very much with us in the 21st Century and I'm interested in it's legacy and it's future more than ever these days. SUPPORT THE CBLDF!

@@cha5 too bed most of the artists and comics you mentioned, like Maus, Jimmy Corrigan, Watchmen and Sandman are mediocre and insanely overrated crap (not to mention the unreadable shit like LOTR, it's like you're digging yourself a hole). But on the other hand, so is old Leo da Vinci. Kudos to Crumb though

Marcin B Well when YOU create something on the scale of a Maus or a Jimmy Corrigan or a Watchmen or The Sandman and you produce a work that has won a Hugo or a Pulitzer and has made Time Magazine’s list of 100 best English Novels then get back to me, You’re the only one who’s digging yourself a hole here. Gaiman’s Sandman certainly has had an impact on fantasy, I’d never call Tolkien’s LOTR unreadable, although I’m more into Moorcock and Bradbury and Lovecraft among others. As to Da Vinci he set the standards for anatomy in art as we know it and came up with some of the earliest concepts of a flying machine 400 years before the Wright Brothers, Crumb would even think of your opinion as somewhat half assed there.

Lol too true

True, but he *is* somewhat famous.

haha , you beat me to it. He's smoking a pipe and reclining on a chaise lounge too. I'm sure he looks at this and has to cringe a bit ; We all have our embarrassing times. Plus this was from a time where all those kinds of affectations were kind of hallmarks of actually being fancy.

Harlan Ellison: not known for mincing his words!

Watching this is nice as it was 30 years ago. Harlan is now in his eighties and in poor health. He no longer makes any public appearances at all, even on KZfaq. But in his youth he was dynamite.

@Make Me Believe Meh ur mom

T2. Great Movie. Yes I heard the story. Cj

"..that's the result of evolvement. From what I understand the editorial comic was first, then they added a few panels to that and you had a comic strip; and they added a few pages to that and you had a comic book..." - The King I don't think it's possible to attribute the actual term "comic book" to any one person, it was just the next step of collecting comic strips and selling them unattached from newspapers, which started with Famous Funnies in the early 30s, IIRC. But it all started with cave paintings, so sequential art has been around for quite some time.

Ok

Wow that's awesome, do you have any available to sell?

+Chad K.W.D.L. Say what, She was in charge of selling Eisners comics off, Contact eclipse comics Kat Ynrode. Yeah I spelled her name wrong.After over 20 years, doubt any extras are left.

I've got some original Sunday newspaper Spirits from 1940-1942 and some Police Comics from that era which reprinted Eisner's Spirit stories. not to mention an issue of Feature Funnies with some pre Spirit Eisner art (a character he did called Espionage from 1938) I was able to get Eisner to sign several of them at the San Diego Comic-Con back in the 1990's when he was a regular there. I've still got them all, Wouldn't sell them for anything, Sorry Chad. ;-)

cha5 I don't blame you, that is history right there! I sure wish I could have went to comic cons back then.

And now Ditko...

Harlan Ellison

@@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9 That's hilarious

Ronald Reagan was a shit writer, even Poe was much better

Moebius is the one to read though, time and again. Kirby is the one to brush and forget.

@@marcinb4647 tru dat

wait wat how he went insane??

brain gamer Its a form of just saying, Hey, seen his stuff lately, yeah! His books are batshit insane!

+Afonso Lucas oh lol ok

brain gamer The best example is all Star Batman and Robin.

9/11 severely affected him.

Probably owned by the BBC archive that commissioned this lol.