The Carmine Infantino 1999 Shoot Interview by David Armstrong

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David Armstrong interviewed Golden & Silver Age great, Carmine Infantino in 1999 about his entry into comic books with Fox Comics and Timely, meeting Harry Chesler, working at DC Comics with Sheldon Mayer, meeting Alex Toth and Joe Kubert, his favorite inkers & movies, his DC covers, the business side of DC, corporate shakeups, Sol Harrison, Irwin Donenfeld, Jack Liebowitz, the buyout from Kinney, Mike Sekowsky, All-American Comics, Mario Puzo, Robert Kanigher, merchandising and why he left DC Comics.
Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong.
Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.
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📜 Chapters
00:00 Drawing & Formal training
00:37 Biggest influences
00:59 First professional piece?
01:35 Fox Comics, Timely Comics
02:48 After high school | Harry Chesler
03:47 Learning composition design
04:29 Learning story flow?
05:03 Working at DC | Sheldon Mayer
06:24 Alex Toth and Joe Kubert
07:24 Working for DC at night & for Timely at day
07:59 Your main inkers?
08:29 Learn from the inkers?
09:05 Hard time in the 1950s
09:45 Different subjects required different emotions
10:28 Alfred Hitchcock
11:05 Movies influenced storytelling
11:35 Theatre with Alex Toth
12:13 Challenges in the 1950s
13:37 Influences from architecture?
14:35 Any favorite stories or characters?
15:18 Where did your vignette style come from?
16:10 DC covers
17:57 Business side to comics
19:15 Distribution is key | Sol Harrison
20:00 DC Comics bought by Kinney
21:38 Becoming President of the company
22:45 Jack Liebowitz | Superman
25:36 All American Comics vs DC
26:31 Publisher roles: merchandising, films, or TV?
27:43 Mario Puzo
28:20 Superhero merchandising licenses
28:54 When Kinney became Warner
29:46 Kinney management
31:15 American comics and European comics
32:30 Why leave DC?
33:19 Sales figures.
33:47 Did your relationship changed with editors, writers, or artists?
34:18 Julius Schwartz
35:50 Robert Kanigher
36:35 Joe Kubert
37:23 Mike Sekowsky - St. John
38:36 Being publisher phased you out of the business?
39:01 Favorite remembrances?
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@AnthonyStJames 7 ай бұрын

As an 8 year-old in 1964, I went into a local candy store to pick up something for my Mom. There were current comics on display in there, and the one that caught my eye turned out to be one of Carmine's New Look Batman covers, probably Detective Comics. I went back the next day with my allowance money & bought that one and as many other titles as I could afford. Collected most DC superhero books for the following decade. Infantino still stands as my favorite comics artist.

@edfurnez6134 Жыл бұрын

What a great interview. Schwartz and Carmine were game changers!

@rickytoddbotelho9555 Жыл бұрын

Carmine will always be one of the biggest influences on my life style and comics that will live on as long as the written word continues. From his, tight smooth line work, to fluid machine like quality of figuring out dynamics and problem solving for illustration. His undying contribution to the art form hopefully remains an underlying, foundation for visual arts. I met Carmine some years ago with Julius Swartz hosting a panel about his work. The soft spoken genius of Carmine is almost something ridiculous not to remember among modern day art movements ❤️👍😝💯

@scottcrosby-art5490 Жыл бұрын

Amazing talent, did so much for the industry

@dlv0187 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed his run on the Flash.

@tconstantine9 Жыл бұрын

Just read Savage Sword of Conan #34 this Sunday AM. Infantino w/ Alfredo Alcala on finishes. Surprisingly effective pairing that fit right in w/ 70’s Buscema.

@PimpfDM92 Жыл бұрын

Another great artist, I really dig some of his DC & Marvel run like the star wars series he made. Great artists, those really shaped comics history.

@johnminehan1148 Жыл бұрын

During the Gulf War, I was in the KSA. A city called Hafar al Batin, which we saw in the distance, looked like a Carmine Infantino city . I thought of that when he mentioned North Africa.

@demetriusdillard2863 Жыл бұрын

Amazing interview! Carmine Infantino is an absolute legend, innovator, and pioneer! May he continue to rest in peace...he is still missed!

@supernova1969 Жыл бұрын

Neal Adams, Ross Andru and carmine Infantino forever!

@angelmanfredy Жыл бұрын

I love how so very many of the comic legends have New York accents. That is a New York accent I hope? 😮 He’s awesome either way.

@Tabish29 2 ай бұрын

Yea. Bklyn accent.

@theswan1852 Жыл бұрын

These are so awesome. Thank you. These are the behind-the-scenes of my childhood.

@thearmanig98 10 ай бұрын

Absolute legend. Thank you for sharing.

@jojoheartspaypay Жыл бұрын

Great channel all my heroes!! Carmine one of em!!!

@MattelJones 9 ай бұрын

Sensational interview with a real legend. Making my way through this wonderful series which serves as a very important resource for appreciating this industry's history. Thank you for making this available.

@StruggleoftheOutsider Жыл бұрын

All these interviews with the Men of the old school you've been posting.. are a true resource. Worthwhile & appreciated.

@ComicBookHistorians Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@eracerxxx Жыл бұрын

wow i'm gonna be watching these interviews for days! insanely good work! thanks for the uploads!

@MakThaNife Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for these videos! These guys must never be forgotten. Total masters of their craft.

@christophertomasello1227 Жыл бұрын

10:23 CF actually was storyboarding Hitchcock's movies while in the theater?! Wow that's somebody destined for greatness

@teetoo3790 Жыл бұрын

Great artist. People you can check out his Flash and Star Wars work. Amazon has a great sale with the digital comics for the Kindle . Time to check out his great art.

@cordellsenior9935 24 күн бұрын

Thank God and YOU for putting together this series of interviews with these lost GIANTS of the comics industry. I started reading and collecting in the midst of what they now call The Silver Age and was hooked on comics until 2014 or so. Thanks for shining light on these dedicated men and women writing, drawing and editing and publishing pages and pages of pages of great printed cinema that kept me entertained for decades. I remember Carmine being a great and unique artist who became a counterpart of Stan Lee at Marvel. He was certainly not the self-promoter that Stan was and worked in relative anonymity in comparison. This interview (and the others I've seen) are pure GOLD for time-capturing the life and character of so many of these great talents that worked in so much obscurity. (I really loved the Marie Severin, John Buscema, Joe Sinnot and Tom Palmer interviews and will be re-watching a lot of them.) Kudos and salutes to whomever had the foresight to sit down and conduct these interviews with these creators who created so much of what is now widely consumed and commercially viable. I can't thank and compliment y'all enough for the great interview questions and agenda. Superb! (I love the fact that he said he drew and drew and drew until he got it all out of his system. What a guy!)

@ComicBookHistorians 24 күн бұрын

Thank you! David Armstrong had the foresight to sit down and interview/record these giants and I sincerely enjoyed editing, upconverting and publishing them for comic book scholarship. Cheers and thanks for watching!

@cordellsenior9935 21 күн бұрын

@@ComicBookHistorians Does any intel exist on the most obscure letterers like Arties Simek and Sam Rosen? What a niche and what output by these people.

@ElizabethGarcia-rh5ho 3 ай бұрын

One of the greatests of the silver age

@dahur 8 ай бұрын

I grew up with his art work in the sixties...

@chuckleezodiac24 Жыл бұрын

As a kid in the '70s, I didn't like Carmine Infantino's artwork at Marvel. Later I learned he was a great editor and cover artist for DC Comics. A legendary artist, in fact. I do like his '60s art. Now I can appreciate the value of these oral histories. Thanks for starting this channel!

@chuckleezodiac24 Жыл бұрын

@@original.dwornboy I'd be so disappointed, like a kid who dropped his ice cream cone, when I opened a comic and saw art by Infantino, Frank Robbins or Herb Trimpe. Still bought 'em.

@drmidnight680-kz2le Жыл бұрын

@@chuckleezodiac24 should have ask Neal Adams about Frank Robbins, probably Frank Miller too. Frank Robbins art was in Art Galleries. Herb Trimpe with Tom Sutton inks will give you Barry Smith art.

@chuckleezodiac24 Жыл бұрын

@@drmidnight680-kz2le i was just a little kid. what did i know? i knew what i liked and didn't like. all art is subjective. some people don't like Kirby's art. i preferred Neal Adams, John Buscema, Gil Kane, George Perez, John Byrne, Berni Wrightson.

@drmidnight680-kz2le Жыл бұрын

@@chuckleezodiac24 I was a little kid too and I liked all those artist. Even back then infant into was one of my favorites because I was a DC fan, same for Frank Robbins.

@Crazecollector 9 ай бұрын

Thank you

@assignmentearth2899 Жыл бұрын

"Frank Giacoia would get his mom to make this beig hero 'sangwhiches'. " @11:38 Man, I love this stuff.

@anthonyperdue3557 Жыл бұрын

😎Was fascinated to watch this A!ex because Carmine's style for my #1 DC Silver Age hero The Flash along with Detective Chimp , Airboy/Heap , Elongated Man , the sci-fi back features , etc are simply top favorites of mine and I came away double fascinated because of the background history Carmine presented so simply and directly. You know I was thinking about George Tuska's interview and how he mentioned he got the job on Scorchy Smith because the syndicate didn't like the guy - Rodlow Willard - who was working on it but I did ; IMO the only artist who didn't fit the strip was the final one - John Mi!t Morris , his style was too cartoony for an adventure strip but was perfect for the single panel strip he took over from Oscar Hitt called Neighborly Neighbors. Like Gene Ahern's Our Boarding House Neighborly Neighbors was a single panel continuity strip , both really enjoyable features.

@walidhmd Жыл бұрын

rest in peace

@johnminehan1148 Жыл бұрын

Was it "National Comics" at that time or was it the last of All American?

@comicguy9611 Жыл бұрын

Never really lik his style. For me seems like all characters were females 😬 I can see he's not proud what he has crated/done artwise. Totally agree that it's a very lonely job, where you live in constant fantasy. But hey, I always tried to draw when I was a kid, but never had the discipline to sit there for hours. Great interviews, please keep them coming . Thx

@drmidnight680-kz2le Жыл бұрын

Comicguy9611Infantino made some of the all time best covers of the silver age, specially Batman. Jim Lee even made a figure of his cover for the book Batman from the 30s to the 70s. Great background specially architecture. The flash in the brave and the bold that brought back the superheroes and mystery in space issue 90. Publisher of DC comics probably one of the top of heap of comic pros.