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Post by berkley on Aug 13, 2021 13:34:17 GMT -5
I always thought of Mooney as a solid though unspecatular penciller. He did a fair amount of work on Steve Gerber books like Man-Thing and Omega, so I saw it quite a bit, since I was reading everything I could find by Gerber at the time. His low-key style was a good fit for Gerber's off-the-wall stories.
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 13, 2021 16:33:53 GMT -5
He was also an inker that made everyone look good. I think his inks on Romita in Spider-Man were as close to Romita's own as you would see. I think it may have been one of the George Olshevsky "Marvel Comics Index" books that actually broke down the work on the era to an alomst obsessive degree.
Simply put, when Romita & Mooney were working on ASM, you almost never had 2 issues back-to-back where they did exactly the same amoutn of work. Sometimnes, Romita did full pencils, Mooney did inks; sometimes Romita did rough layouts, Mooney did PENCILS and inks. And usually, whatever the case was, Romita would go back and touch up faces.
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #1 (the B&W magazine), I could tell just by looking at Gwen & MJ that Mooney was doing full pencils. That issue was the single time they most began to remind me of Veronica & Betty.
It was also crazy when Don Heck worked on ASM. Romita would do layouts, Heck would do pencils, Mike Esposito would do inks, and Romita would touch up the faces. It was really a waste of Don Heck's talents to be wedged in between other artists like that.
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 13, 2021 23:03:39 GMT -5
He was also an inker that made everyone look good. I think his inks on Romita in Spider-Man were as close to Romita's own as you would see. From the original pages i've seen, Mooney never tried to impose his own style on Romita's. It was more of Mooney trying to maintain what had become the defining look of the art/title, so he did not go as far as say, Shores over Kirby. That's the likely reason Mooney's inks seemed to look like Romita's over his own pencils.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 14, 2021 8:15:01 GMT -5
He was also an inker that made everyone look good. I think his inks on Romita in Spider-Man were as close to Romita's own as you would see. From the original pages i've seen, Mooney never tried to impose his own style on Romita's. It was more of Mooney trying to maintain what had become the defining look of the art/title, so he did not go as far as say, Shores over Kirby. That's the likely reason Mooney's inks seemed to look like Romita's over his own pencils.
Thanks. That explains the very Romita-like inking on those issues. Though both did use a lusher brush stroke, so their styles meshed. He was a vast improvement on the Mike Espisito inked issues.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 14, 2021 8:33:19 GMT -5
Mooney was never comfortable working Marvel-style so Gerber wrote full scripts for him on Man-Thing, Son of Satan, and Omega.
Cei-U! I summon the secret to a great collaboration!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2021 20:12:29 GMT -5
a little bit of comic book collector humor... -M
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 24, 2021 7:24:49 GMT -5
On the 89th anniversary of the birth of Jim Aparo, here's a photo of me and Chris Khalaf meeting our favorite artist in 1992:
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 24, 2021 10:02:33 GMT -5
On the 89th anniversary of the birth of Jim Aparo, here's a photo of me and Chris Khalaf meeting our favorite artist in 1992: You're bald?
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Post by james on Aug 24, 2021 11:46:17 GMT -5
I always thought of Mooney as a solid though unspecatular penciller. He did a fair amount of work on Steve Gerber books like Man-Thing and Omega, so I saw it quite a bit, since I was reading everything I could find by Gerber at the time. His low-key style was a good fit for Gerber's off-the-wall stories. I was never a Jim Mooney fan but I will say his art on Spectacular Spider-Man 25-31 was some of my favorite and that storyline remains my favorite Spider-Man run
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Post by Confessor on Aug 24, 2021 17:55:54 GMT -5
I was never a Jim Mooney fan but I will say his art on Spectacular Spider-Man 25-31 was some of my favorite and that storyline remains my favorite Spider-Man run I agree. Jim Mooney is a very underrated artist and inker. Loved him him on the various Spider-Man titles in the Silver and Bronze Ages and on Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-In-One.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 24, 2021 19:15:05 GMT -5
Mooney provided a stability in Spider-Man providing great links over ALL pencils for Spidey. Whether pro or rookie he made them all look good. Not as slick or overpowering as Joe Sinnott on FF, Big Jim had a darker and grittier ink style which was well suited for the city/street level heroics for Spidey and DD.
I could spot Mooney inks instantly and it was guaranteed satisfaction knowing that his inking was between the covers!
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Post by Bronze age andy on Aug 24, 2021 19:23:24 GMT -5
One of the fun things about Jim Mooney is his bibliography. He worked on nearly every Marvel character in the 60's and 70's and it's always interesting to see his work pop up in so many different titles, if only for an issue or two.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 25, 2021 11:39:48 GMT -5
I agree. Jim Mooney is a very underrated artist and inker. Loved him him on the various Spider-Man titles in the Silver and Bronze Ages and on Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-In-One.
I thought he made a good mesh with Gerber on the series they worked with together. I'd love to have seen him work on Eisner's Spirit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 9:46:22 GMT -5
Another episode of Alex Toth in depth is up, this time on the essentials of character design.
-M
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 28, 2021 10:04:42 GMT -5
Another episode of Alex Toth in depth is up, this time on the essentials of character design. It continues to amaze me. With very few exceptions (" Bravo For Adventure"), I NEVER really cared for Toth's comics work. But then many years after-the-fact, I found out he was one of my FAVORITE people in TV animated cartoons!
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