The Murphy Anderson 1998 Shoot Interview by David Armstrong

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David Armstrong interviewed Golden and Silver Age great, Murphy Anderson in 1998 on set at San Diego Comic Con about his entry into comic books in the 1940s, working with Harry Chesler, Jerry Iger and Jack Burne, then in Fiction House with Ruben Moreira, drafted into the army, working on the Buck Rogers comic strip, working at DC Comics, then Ziff-Davis with Jerry Siegel, the science fiction comics of DC with Julius Schwartz, Dan and Sy Barry, bringing back superheroes in the mid 1950s, the Atomic Knights, Mike Sekowsky, first depicting Snapper Carr, covers for DC, his favorite movies, his contract with PS Magazine and if drawing comic books was a meaningful profession.
Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong.
Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.
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📜 Chapters
00:00 Background
00:21 Reading comics
00:44 Starting drawing
00:58 First work published
01:33 What got you into comics?
02:08 Business in New York
03:18 Harry Chesler, Jerry Iger, Jack Burne
04:11 In the Fiction House
04:51 Ruben Moreira
05:23 Into the army | Radar test
06:39 After service | Buck Rogers
07:57 Did you still comics during this time?
08:34 Going into DC Comics
09:15 Working for Ziff-Davis
09:49 Julius Schwartz
10:21 Science fiction works in DC
11:00 Dan Barry & Sy Barry
11:58 In the 50's superheroes gone
12:26 Reestablishing some of the heroes | Julius Schwartz
14:05 Back to Buck Rogers
14:17 Back to DC | Inking
15:58 Atomic Knights
16:52 Mike Sekowsky | Justice League-Snapper Carr
17:46 Doing covers
18:19 Long-term relationship with artists you ink
19:15 Missed any deadlines
19:39 Movies influenced
20:56 Comic book's lifespan then and now
21:45 Current works
22:02 Any retirement plan | PS Magazine
23:19 My life was a dream come true
23:38 Outro
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@edfurnez6134 Жыл бұрын

The best inker at DC Comics in the 1960s hands down! I loved him on Infantino. Thank you David and Alex!

@apexcomix3200 Жыл бұрын

Murphy Anderson was so down to Earth

@DelightLovesMovies Жыл бұрын

I inherited my dads comic book collection from the 60s 70s and 80s. Shows like this make me appreciate it a lot more. Mr Anderson is a lovely gentleman.

@cha5 Жыл бұрын

I really loved his early raw Fiction House work he did on Planet Comics, He was at a panel at Comic-Con Int back in the early 2000's and I was able to get him to sign a Planet Comics #36 of mine, and at this stage of his life he was still able to do some beautiful Lou Fine inspired work such as the comic covers he had done for an Overstreet Price Guide which was for two covers, One a homage to DC's Silver Age heroes and another for Quality's Golden Age heroes, a truly unforgettable artist.

@carlbonasera9780 Жыл бұрын

A true gentleman and a fine artist!

@cordellsenior9935 Жыл бұрын

The great and unsung Murphy Anderson! Wow! What a treat to see and hear this man. I want to thank the channel for these "Shoot" videos. I've marked all of the ones I see for a "Watch Later". I want to commend whoever had the wherewithal and insight to capture these time-capsule interviews with so many of my Silver Age graphic / comics arts heroes and legends. Thanks for ALL of these videos. Murphy's work HAD to have been an inspiration to Brian Bolland (or it's just coincidence). What man with an inkwell. I think I first saw his inks on Joe Kubert's Hawkman pencils, long before I knew whom either of them was. Look at this guy. He reeks of "America's Greatest Generation". I always think of the work he did on DC's "John Carter of Mars adaptation and it was great work that he penciled and inked, I believe. His inks could lift an inferior penciller's job. Thanks again for revealing these heroes to me. So many of these legendary workers are now deceased, but still very much alive in these interviews. And these interviews seem to ask so many of the "right" questions. Kudos to all!!!

@ComicBookHistorians Жыл бұрын

Thanks! check out the bios of each with their backstory and content. David Armstrong had that insight and recorded them, by shooting them on a real set roughly 20 years ago. Then in the past 6 months through coordinating with David, I (Alex) did the remastering, editing and media construction of the presentation interviews you're watching. Look out for a special "making of" video with David and I coming soon. cheers.

@RogerFusselman 5 ай бұрын

Great to hear from this legendary artist! I am glad to learn that lightboxing from newsprint was a thing with many artists. Genius is lots of hard work with lots of tricks to make things cool. You don't have to be Isaac Newton with a pencil or a brush. Jump in and do it.

@anthonyperdue3557 Жыл бұрын

😎Loved Murphy's work and in 1973 I started reading The Menomonee Falls Gazette which published Murphy's Buck Rogers , my #1 spaceman strip. Calkins , Yager , Anderson , Tuska ; ALL did Buck proud! I was such a fan of the Buck Rogers serial which got reedited into a 90 minute film that played on TV. In the 1970s one of my local channels would usually schedule the film on an early morning Saturday around 2:00 or 3:00 and whenever it was on the TV listing I would set my alarm clock ten minutes earlier so I could fully wake up and properly enjoy my favorite spaceman on screen. It was simply great hearing how much Murphy enjoyed contributing to Buck Rogers.👍.

@ComicBookHistorians Жыл бұрын

That’s great, Anthony. Murphy’s eyes light up with Buck Rogers. I love hearing him say that he was in hog heaven when he did that strip!

@josephbarbera9220 Жыл бұрын

I was a big fan of his work on Superman back in the early 70s along with Curt Swan.

@FirstnameLastname-my7bz Жыл бұрын

Swanderson predicted Henry Cavill essentially.

@jamescutler2486 Жыл бұрын

One of the best from the Industry! Great interview!

@johnminehan1148 Жыл бұрын

Great artist, very talented. Not only a great inker but a great layout man (as seen by his Hawkman and John Carter work). I thought Quality was in Hartford, Conn at the time (the "Quality City').. .

@johnminehan1148 Жыл бұрын

Sy Berry was the only inker who really did justice to Anderson's pencils. We think of Infantino and Anderson as being the DC "House Look" but it seemed like a lot of that was Toth/Berry on Sensation Mystery in the early 1950s.

@johnminehan1148 Жыл бұрын

I liked the work he did with Kirby on Jimmy Olson. There are panels where he really did a good job taking what Kirby did in pencils into inks, just as Sinnott did. It's a shame that he did not work more closely with Kirby. I'm not sure Kirby was absolutely happy with it, but Sinnott, Wood and Anderson might have been his best inkers along with (oddly enough) Neal Adams.

@bigdavethornton2086 Жыл бұрын

Just found these interviews on KZfaq and they are just superb! All the guys who were drawing/writing/editing comics when I first discovered them in the early seventies. Are there any interviews with guys who came in 70s/80s/90s?

@ComicBookHistorians Жыл бұрын

Yes here: CBH Interview Series kzfaq.info/sun/PLcJ4JJkHSvBMryEHXFWGGOy_GwBe1cafT

@FirstnameLastname-my7bz Жыл бұрын

Interesting that he died like Siegel's father from heart failure (which inspired George Reeve's version of Pa (Eben in that version) Kent to check out before Sarah, who I think was named after Siegel's mother).