“T” commented on Legion of Super Heroes Overview, Part 3: “Wow, Jim, I’m sorry to hear about all the trouble you had while on Legion of Super-Heroes. I get the feeling Mark Waid probably went through something similar when he returned to The Flash. His LoSH run doesn’t read like it went through too much […]
JayJay here. Jim has written many wonderful and moving introductions and tributes to the people he has known over the years. Here are some more. Dave Cockrum When I first moved to New York City in 1976, as it happened, Dave had a room to rent and I needed a place to live. We didn’t […]
I thought these might be of interest. Each of the last two years, I was asked to write intros for all-time greats who were being inducted into the Overstreet Hall of Fame. It was an honor. Archie Goodwin Ask the average fan to name the greatest creators in the history of comics and the name […]
JayJay here. In 2007 Jim returned to DC Comics to write the Legion of Super Heroes again after 31 years. Unfortunately everything didn’t go as planned for the series. Here is the last part of the plot overview. Also… More and different stuff will be posted later today! (Continued from yesterday’s blog) SG checks the […]
JayJay here. In 2007 Jim returned to DC Comics to write the Legion of Super Heroes again after 31 years. Unfortunately everything didn’t go as planned for the series. Here is the second of three parts of the plot overview. Fans of the series may enjoy reading what his original intentions were for the series […]
JayJay here. In 2007 Jim returned to DC Comics to write the Legion of Super Heroes again after 31 years. Unfortunately everything didn’t go as planned for the series. But this week, we will serialize Jim’s overview for the story arc that he had planned. Fans of the series may enjoy reading what his original […]
When I was fourteen, I went on my first business trip. It was in June, 1966, soon after school ended for the year, and almost a year after I’d written the first Legion story DC bought. Fresh out of ninth grade, I was off from home in Pittsburgh to New York City to spend a […]
Herb Trimpe used to own a 1939 Stearman, which is an open cockpit biplane. When we worked together at Marvel, he’d often invite me to come upstate where he lived to go for a ride. Even after the Marvel days, sometimes, when we’d run into each other. I never got around to it. Always too […]
Here’s a tale from ancient days starring Bill Sienkiewicz. First, the origin. I’m sitting at my desk at Marvel one day, doing Editor-in-Chief stuff, whatever, and the phone rings. The receptionist asks me if I will take a call from someone named “Neal Adams.” Who? Yes, I will take a call from Neal Adams. Neal […]
Storytelling Lecture Series, Part 21 So, the inker has done his or her job, and now we have black and white images—usually with some halftone rendering, like feathering, hatching, stippling, drybrush, maybe even spatter technique. And even possibly with some Zip-a-Tone or other halftone applique, creating gray or grayish areas. At this point, the colorist […]