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With 2013 Playmate of the Year Raquel Pomplun at Playboy and Gramercy Pictures' Self/less party during Comic-Con 2015 weekend at Parq Restaurant & Nightclub
TRIUMPH at TREBLINKA.
by Gary Friedrich; illustrated by Dick Ayers (pencils) & John Severin (inks).
New York, Bard Publishing Corporation [ie Marvel Comics), march 1968. issued as Sgt.Fury And His Howling Commandos 52.
a stupid story no matter how one looks at it but, wait, what's this amongst the ads?
in the mid-to-late'6os, Frank Zappa wrote, collaged, drew & pasted up a series of ads for albums that ran in several of the comics of the period (unknown where all they may've appeared). it seems to me that these may predate the Columbia Records Club ads that began occluding double-page spreads in comics with gluts of "pop" music (& which, to my memory, never seemed to have any Mothers albums included amongst the rabble). if true, it lends credence to the claim that Zappa was the first artist to utilize comics as an obvious demographic in which to advertise rock'n'roll.
"CLEANS YOU!
THRILLS YOU!
CLEANS & THRILLS YOU!"
WOW!
if i didn't already own the stuff, i'd run right out & "buy all of these products
NOW!"
[note 1967 date & New York address: this'd've been made during Zappa's residency at the Garrick Theatre.]
Please allow at least 14 days' notice for ordering. Email brian@retrobakerylv.com for details and pricing.
RETRO BAKERY
In the mid 70s, during the height of the kung fu craze, and shortly after Bruce Lee’s death, my favorite comic book was Master of Kung Fu. Actually, I only liked the issues drawn by Paul Gulacy.
Issue number 40, Murder Agency, was the finest example of Gulacy’s work on the series. When I first opened its pages it absolutely blew my mind. I had never seen such precision work, nor so much detail.
It was one of only two issues that Gulacy was able to ink for himself. Normally he only did the pencil artwork, and somebody else would apply the ink. Gulacy’s work was often so detailed, most inkers were not up to the job. But when Gulacy inked himself on this issue, it took a dramatic leap.
Notice the extreme cinematic quality to the frame progression, the “camera angles” and the attention to detail and realism. The wood grain, the shadows, the lines on faces, the cracks on walls, and hands rendered with the care of Michelangelo. This was amazing stuff back in the 70s, and still holds up today.
I scanned all seventeen pages of Murder Agency and painstakingly restored the artwork. I had to essentially repaint almost everything. I groove on the detail work. It's my form of meditation.
Alas, the lettering is still messy, because I just don't have the time, or interest, to do that. Not enough art involved, and it wouldn't be fun. Besides, I only have so much free time, and I wasn’t getting paid for this.
I tried to keep it true to the original colors, but comics were colored by hand back then, and mistakes and imprecision were rampant. I tried to correct those kind of things, and some times it necessitated a color change.
Comics were printed on crap back then, as you can tell by the “before” versions. My intention was to make the art look better than it did when it was in mint condition. Unfortunately, I didn’t have mint condition versions to scan. There was a lot of bleed through from opposite sides of the paper, and it was all quite yellow.
All seventeen pages originally appeared on Paul Gulacy’s web site, but I hadn’t done a very good job and it was bugging me, so I undertook this more involved version. If you go to Gulacy's web site, you can see all the pages.
At ease. My geek moment is over now.
Erin Curry
unnamed comic book made within 24 working hours on translucent mylar with ink, graphite, whiteout tape, tape, nontext and bubbles
14" x 11"
2012
This comic was begun on a truncated 24 hour comic day in October at The Sequential Artists’ Workshop in Gainesville, FL and finished two months later in December. The number of pages was fixed and the marks layered until they started to suggest a sense of fitting in place and then were worked on until they did.