by John | Apr 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Anyone can get a divorce—at the last minute. But smart potential divorcées plan ahead. Act now and get three divorces for the price of two!
↓ TranscriptSCENE: One woman talking to another.
WOMAN: Sure I invested wisely! This dress got me dinner, jewelry...and half off the lawyer fees on my next two divorces!
Art by Vince Colletta Studio
by John | May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
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How Fast is Fast?
Dick Giordano started his comics career at the Iger Studios and was such a fast inker that some of the other artists asked him to slow down.
The Iger artists were paid by the hour when they took work home. By turning out pages so quickly, Dick made it look too easy.
Later, though, when Dick started working at Charlton Comics the staff artists were paid by the page. So the faster they drew, the more they made.
Dick was “dazzled by the speed of the more seasoned staff artists.” One artist could pencil eight pages a day. Dick could “only” manage two — which was still darned fast!*
“I’m kind of fast. Anybody from my generation…is usually a little faster than the people who’ve come up recently because…the only way you could get a decent salary in the ‘50s and ‘60s was to do a lot of pages…
“You had to learn to cut through the unimportant stuff, to make only the important lines show up so you could do a few more pages.” —Dick Giordano in an interview by John Lustig, 2001
*Info in the first four paragraphs is summarized from Michael Eury’s Dick Giordano: Changing Comics, One Day at a Time
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↓ TranscriptPANEL 1, SCENE: Mitzi Muffet is standing next to a hospital gurney looking shocked. On the gurney is a body covered by a sheet. Standing on the other side of the gurney is a nurse.
NURSE: ...too late! He's colder than an Eskimo's outhouse!
MUFFET: This is awful! (Sob!) He didn't even get a chance to buy me any jewelry!
PANEL 2, SCENE: Cut to Mitzi sitting on a bed. In the background is an old man in a wheelchair.
CAPTION: "I dated a lot of men that week! At least, I think they were men!"
OLD MAN: This is just a disguise! Don't tell anyone, but...I'm really Britney Spears!
by John | Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
So, maybe there is something better than chocolate?
↓ TranscriptMAN (hiding a string of pearls behind his back as he talks to someone who is off-panel): Well, no! I don’t have a giant, chocolate egg for you, but...
1960 Pencils: Charles Nicholas Color: Allen Freeman
12.2.6.3
by John | Feb 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Original art from First Kiss #19 (1961) by the Vince Colletta Studio:
↓ TranscriptWOMAN (in front of mirror): I wish the phone would ring! It’s been days since anyone gave me any jewelry!
