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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: Ketchup Comments #2
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 08:23:09 EDT
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> From:	ucla-cs!rick           19-Sep-1984 15:15:33  

> I used (read: > 5 years ago) collect comics, primarlily for the art work.
> I haven't kept up much on what has happened the last few years. Does anyone
> know what the following artists are doing now:
>    1) Neal Adams
>    2) Barry Smith
>    3) John Buscema

(1) Neal Adams has mostly been doing commercial art for the last 10 years or so,
as well as running Continuity Studios. He's pretty much kept his hand in the
comics, though, with the occasional cover here and there. In the last couple of
years, he's written and drawn two *dreadfully* written, though elegantly drawn,
comics for Pacific Comics: MS. MYSTIC (2 issues) and SKATEMAN (1 issue -- Praise
the Lord!). Currently, he produces and edits Continuity Comics, of which the
first title, an anthology comic called ECHOES OF FUTUREPAST, has had two issues.
He has a Frankenstein/Dracula/Wolfman strip in ECHOES, but it's pretty much just
a touch-up of material he did for a European publisher years ago.

(2) Barry Smith (now known as Barry Windsor-Smith) quit comics after he gave up
CONAN, and put most of his energy into doing limited-edition prints for his own
Gorblimey Press. He's recently returned to comics, and has done some work for
Pacific's PATHWAYS TO FANTASY and Marvel's EPIC ILLUSTRATED, MARVEL FANFARE,
MACHINE MAN mini-series, and THE X-MEN. He also did a Cerebus the Aardvark story
(and the cover) for SWORDS OF CEREBUS #5.

(3) John Buscema has pretty much done nothing but Conan for the last 10 years,
though he has done the occasional this and that.


> From:	dartvax!mwm           22-Sep-1984 09:44:12  

> the old timers i;d like to hear about are people like jim steranko, of capt.
> america/shield fame... he's the same vintage as these guys, but he dropped
> out in the early 70's and hasn't been heard from since except for one graphic
> novel in the mid-70's....
> the true old-timers are the dead artists for the most part..... wally wood,
> lou fine, etc....

Steranko is busy publishing MEDIASCENE PREVUE, formerly MEDIASCENE, formerly
COMIXSCENE. It's a pretty low-grade film/comics/books magazine. Why he bothers,
I'll never know. He also does the occasional cover, and wrote and drew one of
the stories in SUPERMAN #400.

And there are still some of the *real* old-timers alive and kicking! Will Eisner
is still doing work for Kitchen Sink's WILL EISNER QUARTERLY and Milt Caniff is
still plugging away at "Steve Canyon" (though I hear that he'll be retiring
soon. Joe Kubert is also practically from that vintage, and he's still doing
comics.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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