I have a Fantagraphics best of HC, but it's missing a bunch of stuff obviously. That Brand strip is gorgeous, nice inking as well as all the fancy panellology. Doesn't Ware do the thing with dada captions too? Such a drag that this failed, I think after this Woody was mostly broken. The early Frazetta is fascinating, some interesting inking choices, love Mari's hair especially. Grace is perfect to describe Jones, so lovely and elegant.
It’s almost a shame that Jones and Frazetta became such great painters because they had so many more beautiful comics to draw. I forgot Ware did that in the “Superman” story in Raw. That Brand strip is so much more experimental than anything I’ve ever seen by him. Kinda sad he didn’t go down this path.
Odious politics aside, The Neutralist is friggin' slick Ditko. Some visual precursors to Ozymandias' arctic fortress in The Avenging World. You've got to give it up the old weirdo, the Zap guys needed powerful psychedelics to draw the kind of stuff Ditko saw when he closed his eyes.
If Ditko ever dropped acid, I guarantee he’d have a bad trip. “The gray! Everything’s turning gray!” It’s funny how all the beatniks and hippies that he despised were such big fans of his “trippy” art.
The Morrow strip is magnificent, I think it's painted but just a guess. Reese and Kirchner are proof that assisting Woody in the 70's would make you a great cartoonist with a rocky career. What to say about the Poe-Frazetta piece? Two of the most influential artists of all time. There's another one page Ditko gag strip in issue twelve, equally bad, unpublishable even in the last issue of Plop! There's some early Zeck in the later issues, including a fantastically weird ink-wash horror thing called "Care and Feeding of Geks" written by Nick Cuti, great stuff. Hope you feel better, I'd offer medical advice but I used to treat the flu with MDMA, so obviously don't listen to me
It’s worth a try! I think my favorite Zeck is that Charlton era, and it’s been all downhill since then. A Ditko funny animal comic would be a horrorshow. He couldn’t draw funny and he couldn’t draw animals. Frazetta could draw funny animals, angry animals, sexy animals, bi-curious animals, animals in fresh linen panties… sorry, I lost my head there for a second! I think assisting Wood might make you an alcoholic gun nut as well.
@@HerculesPetix Isn't there a Chaykin funny animal strip in Quack? I think he wrote it at least, I wanna say Kupperberg drew it... terrible. I loved Zeck's Punisher mini, but I was 14 and haven't seen it since.
I have a Fantagraphics best of HC, but it's missing a bunch of stuff obviously. That Brand strip is gorgeous, nice inking as well as all the fancy panellology.
Doesn't Ware do the thing with dada captions too?
Such a drag that this failed, I think after this Woody was mostly broken.
The early Frazetta is fascinating, some interesting inking choices, love Mari's hair especially.
Grace is perfect to describe Jones, so lovely and elegant.
It’s almost a shame that Jones and Frazetta became such great painters because they had so many more beautiful comics to draw. I forgot Ware did that in the “Superman” story in Raw. That Brand strip is so much more experimental than anything I’ve ever seen by him. Kinda sad he didn’t go down this path.
Odious politics aside, The Neutralist is friggin' slick Ditko. Some visual precursors to Ozymandias' arctic fortress in The Avenging World. You've got to give it up the old weirdo, the Zap guys needed powerful psychedelics to draw the kind of stuff Ditko saw when he closed his eyes.
If Ditko ever dropped acid, I guarantee he’d have a bad trip. “The gray! Everything’s turning gray!” It’s funny how all the beatniks and hippies that he despised were such big fans of his “trippy” art.
@HerculesPetix Ditko would not find that funny, but "the gray" is spot on.
well, i'm jealous. cool stuff!
My comic collection is better than yours, I’d teach you, but I’d have to charge!
@@HerculesPetix quite the cache indeed
The Morrow strip is magnificent, I think it's painted but just a guess.
Reese and Kirchner are proof that assisting Woody in the 70's would make you a great cartoonist with a rocky career.
What to say about the Poe-Frazetta piece? Two of the most influential artists of all time.
There's another one page Ditko gag strip in issue twelve, equally bad, unpublishable even in the last issue of Plop!
There's some early Zeck in the later issues, including a fantastically weird ink-wash horror thing called "Care and Feeding of Geks" written by Nick Cuti, great stuff. Hope you feel better, I'd offer medical advice but I used to treat the flu with MDMA, so obviously don't listen to me
It’s worth a try! I think my favorite Zeck is that Charlton era, and it’s been all downhill since then. A Ditko funny animal comic would be a horrorshow. He couldn’t draw funny and he couldn’t draw animals. Frazetta could draw funny animals, angry animals, sexy animals, bi-curious animals, animals in fresh linen panties… sorry, I lost my head there for a second! I think assisting Wood might make you an alcoholic gun nut as well.
@@HerculesPetix Isn't there a Chaykin funny animal strip in Quack? I think he wrote it at least, I wanna say Kupperberg drew it... terrible. I loved Zeck's Punisher mini, but I was 14 and haven't seen it since.
@@HerculesPetix Bi-curious animals in fresh linen panties, isn't that Omaha the Cat Dancer?