Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: EVANGELINE news Message-ID: <3536@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 05:25:29 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3536 Posted: Fri Aug 9 05:25:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:28:14 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 32 > From: fluke!moriarty (really Henry Vogel) > Mentioning Comico > and books they have lost, if you liked Evangeline (I did) and are waiting for > it to appear somewhere else (I was) you may be in for a disappointment. The > woman who does it (her name slips my mind at this time) Judith Hunt drew it, and her husband Charles Dixon wrote it. > has not got that great a reputation > in the business right now. If you remember, she claimed that Comico > had all the pages from her for the third issue but just weren't printing > it. That, of course, if just plain rediculous! No publisher sits on an issue > of a book that is selling extremely well for them! Comico responded to those > accusations by saying that they had hardly seen any of the artwork and kept > being put off. It turned out that the woman wanted out of her Comico contract > and had hopes of getting more money elsewhere. However, her antics blew it for > her and, most likely, Evangeline. No comic company wants to have someone who > will pull what she did as soon as it looks like they can get more money else- > where! So, it looks like she has rather successfully ruined her career - at > least for a while - in comics. That's really too bad. She was quite a good artist. If memory serves, she did the first "Mark Thrust" back-feature story as well as ROBOTECH DEFENDERS, or whatever that silly mini-series was from DC. But, maybe this will teach her not to pull shenanigans like this again. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA