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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 23, 2022 4:38:43 GMT -5
Jean van Hamme (83) is no longer publishing dozens of books at once, but he did write a Largo Winch spin-off and an issue of Blake&Mortimer last year.
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 23, 2022 5:45:22 GMT -5
I don't believe there were too many teen-agers starting their careers in comics until the 1960's when Cary Bates, Mike Friedrich, Jim Shooter, etc. entered the scene. That's not true at all. Stan Lee, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, Murphy Anderson, Harvey Kurtzman, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Lily Renee, and a whole lot of others were all in their teens when they launched their careers, some of them while still in high school (Heath was only 14 when Fiction House published his firt pro work). The wartime manpower shortage left the industry scrambling to hire talent too young, too old, or too unfit for military service.
Cei-U! I summon the history lesson!
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 23, 2022 7:40:00 GMT -5
If you want a good explanation of what NFTs are and why they are terrible, Dan Olsen has made a documentary about them called "Line Goes Up".
It's long, at over 2 hours, but it is well-researched and annotated and has links to specific chapters in the description. It includes how the Economic Crisis of 2008 and the introduction of Crypto Currencies lead to this, how NFT's work and the various problems with them.
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Post by berkley on Mar 23, 2022 9:52:15 GMT -5
If you want a good explanation of what NFTs are and why they are terrible, Dan Olsen has made a documentary about them called "Line Goes Up".
It's long, at over 2 hours, but it is well-researched and annotated and has links to specific chapters in the description. It includes how the Economic Crisis of 2008 and the introduction of Crypto Currencies lead to this, how NFT's work and the various problems with them.
hanks, will give it a look - a chapter at a time, perhaps.
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 23, 2022 11:04:12 GMT -5
after the early 40's, I don't believe there were too many teen-agers starting their careers in comics until the 1960's when Cary Bates, Mike Friedrich, Jim Shooter, etc. entered the scene. That's not true at all. Stan Lee, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, Murphy Anderson, Harvey Kurtzman, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Lily Renee, and a whole lot of others were all in their teens when they launched their careers, some of them while still in high school (Heath was only 14 when Fiction House published his firt pro work). The wartime manpower shortage left the industry scrambling to hire talent too young, too old, or too unfit for military service.
Cei-U! I summon the history lesson!
But Stan Lee started in 1941; Infantino and Lily Renee in 1942; Kubert in 1943, Murphy Anderson and Colan in 1944. I was curious about the period from about 1945 to the 1960's. " after the early 40's, I don't believe there were too many teen-agers starting their careers in comics until the 1960's when Cary Bates, Mike Friedrich, Jim Shooter, etc. entered the scene." Only Russ Heath and Alex Toth began after the early 1940's.
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Post by MDG on Mar 23, 2022 11:27:46 GMT -5
That's not true at all. Stan Lee, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, Murphy Anderson, Harvey Kurtzman, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Lily Renee, and a whole lot of others were all in their teens when they launched their careers, some of them while still in high school (Heath was only 14 when Fiction House published his firt pro work). The wartime manpower shortage left the industry scrambling to hire talent too young, too old, or too unfit for military service.
Cei-U! I summon the history lesson!
But Stan Lee started in 1941; Infantino and Lily Renee in 1942; Kubert in 1943, Murphy Anderson and Colan in 1944. I was curious about the period from about 1945 to the 1960's. " after the early 40's, I don't believe there were too many teen-agers starting their careers in comics until the 1960's when Cary Bates, Mike Friedrich, Jim Shooter, etc. entered the scene." Only Russ Heath and Alex Toth began after the early 1940's. Post war 'til '54 or so there was Williamson, Ditko, Davis, Buscema, Krigstein... probably others. After the code and the market dried up, not many new artists came into the biz and many left. As far as writers, Archie Goodwin is the only one who comes to mind, though I'm sure there were others.
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 6, 2022 15:29:57 GMT -5
Tom Orzechowski is 69 and still the best freelance letterer around.
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Post by DubipR on Apr 6, 2022 16:52:05 GMT -5
John Workman is 71/72 and still lettering.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 6, 2022 17:33:56 GMT -5
Todd Klein is 71 and I believe he is also still lettering.
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