Comic book artists, processes and techniqes

gvondruska @ 2006-01-26T20:02:00

2006-01-27T01:04:46Z

Wow. there's some great Gil Kane art here http://www.amazingcomicart.com/pages/My.html
and here's a scan from His Name is Savage (an interview published in the mag) It's a sketchbook page that Kane did. He was continuosly studying and drawing..

and this great page from amazing comic art

gvondruska @ 2006-01-23T18:48:00

2006-01-23T23:53:15Z

Cool article on Gil Kane Green Lantern drawing process.
http://dialbforblog.com/archives/211/
and a great Don Heck page...

gvondruska @ 2006-01-22T08:20:00

2006-01-22T13:21:33Z

I had transcribed most of this yesterday and it just disappeared. So I'm scanning it. I found it interesting that Heck used Col-Erase pencils (two different shades) and I enjoyed reading his discussion of his thumbnails...

gvondruska @ 2006-01-21T22:13:00

2006-01-22T03:10:56Z

Don Heck...

2006-01-21T02:12:57Z

Don Heck week continues

2006-01-19T02:10:48Z

I was perusing the 5 for a buck bin at my local comic shop, GreenShift, when I saw this and so of course I had to get it:(from 1982)

Upon closer inpection the mag featured this:

and I thought wow, I've never read a Don Heck interview. I don't think. Not in the tons of comics journals or comic book artist magazines I've read.

Lots of things are revealed about Heck's process and career. Richard Howell interviews him. Here's an excerpt

Howell: Do you ink mostly with a brush?
Heck: No, I ink mostly wiht a pen in fact.
Howell: Really?
Heck: Yeah, I use a brush for the juicy blacks that are put on, like the wrinkles and stuff like that. That's all brush.
Heck: Yeah, well, I use different types of pen-points. I don't necessarily always use any certain one. I have an Estabrook one that I picked up years ago-in fact, I probably wouldn't be able to replace it-but I got a couple of gross at the time. And it's one (with which) you can put down a real fine line, and you can also dig into it at the same time, y'know. It's a fairly big point. It was called a Professional A-1, and I wish I had bought about four or five more boxes, because they were selling it at Sam Flack's in the city for two dollars a gross (laughter). THis was about seven, eight years ago.
(more interview excerpts to come)

Don Heck and X-Men 41

2006-01-18T00:51:10Z

It's my first entry here and I thought I would write about Don Heck as I just recently read an interview with him. What a tremendous draftsman he was! Reading about him made me harken back to the first Don Heck comic I got. I was 10 and visiting my cousins in Brooklyn. It was 1983 and lo and behold they gave me this great comic, X-Men 41, in all it's cracked and broken glory. It was the first comic with a 12 cents price on that I had owned.

and behold this glorious page from within the book. I love the little dog in the first panel, the whole composition of it. Also, the third panel is great with Angel's concerned expression amidst his blonde bombshell's puffy lips and arched eyebrows.