Man, pro tips from Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, that’s worth the price of admission right there! Love to see you guys cover more of his work and/or an interview! Also, really happy to hear you guys talk about political cartoonists, once again I’m just gonna say it: Pat Oliphant. Nobody else can compete with his drawing skills, his range of style, and his razor wire wit and humor. His compilations ‘Just Say No!’ and ‘Fashions For A New World Order’ are great places to start. He invented the modern political cartoon as we know it today and his work is an education in not just drawing from a master’s master but also in politics. You’ll be glad you discovered him!
Alcala was drawing Voltar in the Philippines as early as the 1960's. An early American appearance was in the all-Alcala magazine Magic Carpet, published by Comics & Comix, no doubt capitalizing on the Conan work. Voltar stories were serialized in Warren's The Rook, which featured a couple of pros who knew how to get the best out of black and white: Lee Elias and Alex Toth. There was a Voltar portfolio put out by Schanes and Schanes in the late 70's. And Alcala also published his own how-to book: Secret Teachings of a Comic Book Master.
I first saw a panel from Alcala's Voltar in the excellent World Encyclopedia of Comics (editor Maurice Horn - get this if you don't have it!) when I was a kid in the 70s. I was blown away. Finally acquired Magic Carpet #1 (1977, the first US appearance) about a month ago.
A new collection of Alcala's Voltar is about to be published in Brazil, apparently with a lot of previously unreprinted material, which is just being scanned by Alcala's son in the Philipines. Supposedly, this Brazilian edition will be used as a basis for future reprints of Voltar around the world. Who knows, maybe it will be published in the US soon.
I remember an artist sharing that the Flintstones dailies were up for sale. They are some amazing cartooning and wish we could get a collection of them. I'm shocked more shows didn't find a great artist and let them loose. Especially with the internet? Also, the sports one looked a lot of fun and I'm not a sport's guy.
Fascinating, just checked out a copy (expensive here in the UK). There is also hot tips from Top Comics creator Graphic Novel (no idea how good that is) but this top top tips looks excellent
I remember the strip being lampooned in a collection of parodies as "Dondi of The Dead" with Dondi as a flesh-eating zombie - not much change in the depiction required.
Whoa! I don't remember the cover but so many of those images trigger childhood memories. I guess I had it as a kid and stupidly got rid of it. I guess I'll have to read it again via the video!
Mike Grell's Warlord was way better than the Conan clones DC churned out in the 70's and had a good run well into the 80's. His creator owned Sable is some of his best work
OK-- gutter-talk aside.. thank you for posting this-- plenty of great tips to gleam from this book. Wonder how many comics are gonna come out with you two in the thank-yous ---TC
Richard "Dick" Rockwell was the nephew of Norman Rockwell. The younger Rockwell worked for Milton Caniff as an assistant and basically did the underdrawing (initial pencil) for Steve Canyon for the last few years of its run. I'm not a fan, to be honest. Those late period Steve Canyons are weak -- Caniff/Sickles turned to smudge.
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8:48 - I'm in the midst of watching this, and I'm just buggin' at y'all no-selling the fact that Bill Melendez the man behind the Peanuts specials! :D
Man, pro tips from Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, that’s worth the price of admission right there! Love to see you guys cover more of his work and/or an interview! Also, really happy to hear you guys talk about political cartoonists, once again I’m just gonna say it: Pat Oliphant. Nobody else can compete with his drawing skills, his range of style, and his razor wire wit and humor. His compilations ‘Just Say No!’ and ‘Fashions For A New World Order’ are great places to start. He invented the modern political cartoon as we know it today and his work is an education in not just drawing from a master’s master but also in politics. You’ll be glad you discovered him!
I'm definitely going to pause the video on that Alcala "How to" page. Gotta learn the secrets.
Alcala was drawing Voltar in the Philippines as early as the 1960's. An early American appearance was in the all-Alcala magazine Magic Carpet, published by Comics & Comix, no doubt capitalizing on the Conan work. Voltar stories were serialized in Warren's The Rook, which featured a couple of pros who knew how to get the best out of black and white: Lee Elias and Alex Toth. There was a Voltar portfolio put out by Schanes and Schanes in the late 70's. And Alcala also published his own how-to book: Secret Teachings of a Comic Book Master.
I'm all here for CK secretly turning into a lettering channel
I loved Mell Lazarus growing up. Also, Bill Melendez gave us the Peanuts specials, so he could keep the stache
seeing Gene Hazleton's work for the first time had me drawing single comic strips on 19 X 24 sheets of Bristol for a summer in my early 20s
I first saw a panel from Alcala's Voltar in the excellent World Encyclopedia of Comics (editor Maurice Horn - get this if you don't have it!) when I was a kid in the 70s. I was blown away. Finally acquired Magic Carpet #1 (1977, the first US appearance) about a month ago.
A new collection of Alcala's Voltar is about to be published in Brazil, apparently with a lot of previously unreprinted material, which is just being scanned by Alcala's son in the Philipines. Supposedly, this Brazilian edition will be used as a basis for future reprints of Voltar around the world. Who knows, maybe it will be published in the US soon.
Fun! I looked for years for a copy of this book to no avail, nice to see it spotlighted.
Very cool book. Thanks for showing us this book.
I remember an artist sharing that the Flintstones dailies were up for sale. They are some amazing cartooning and wish we could get a collection of them. I'm shocked more shows didn't find a great artist and let them loose. Especially with the internet?
Also, the sports one looked a lot of fun and I'm not a sport's guy.
Fascinating, just checked out a copy (expensive here in the UK). There is also hot tips from Top Comics creator Graphic Novel (no idea how good that is) but this top top tips looks excellent
A good friend of mine, Jason Sylvestre is actually an artist in CARtoons magazine!
Dondi always creeped me out as a kid for exactly the reasons Ed says. I look forward to seeing Dondi in Red Room.
I remember the strip being lampooned in a collection of parodies as "Dondi of The Dead" with Dondi as a flesh-eating zombie - not much change in the depiction required.
I had this book as a kid, but I'd forgotten about it!
This book is FREAKING AMAZING!!
Whoa! I don't remember the cover but so many of those images trigger childhood memories. I guess I had it as a kid and stupidly got rid of it. I guess I'll have to read it again via the video!
love these vids
Mell Lazarus was the bomb.
CK Please do a show on your video set up, equipment, lighting, intro animation...
Great vid
Alcala worked on Voltar back in the Philippines during the 60's, BEFORE Conan was ever in comics.
I think Bill Melendez and his brother were assistants to Charles Shultz and they had a lot to do with animating Peanuts
Mike Grell's Warlord was way better than the Conan clones DC churned out in the 70's and had a good run well into the 80's. His creator owned Sable is some of his best work
Is there a digital copy of this?
IME "Stripping" comes BEFORE "Gagging"... but these guys are the experts!
OK-- gutter-talk aside.. thank you for posting this-- plenty of great tips to gleam from this book. Wonder how many comics are gonna come out with you two in the thank-yous ---TC
anyone got a pdf of this?
Richard "Dick" Rockwell was the nephew of Norman Rockwell. The younger Rockwell worked for Milton Caniff as an assistant and basically did the underdrawing (initial pencil) for Steve Canyon for the last few years of its run. I'm not a fan, to be honest. Those late period Steve Canyons are weak -- Caniff/Sickles turned to smudge.
Hmmmm. someone should scan it and make a pdf available. :)
How can you totally ignore Bill Melendez?
Nice.
I found one online for 150 bucks😬