Comments on: Quote, Unquote http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:43:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Julia Waymon http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/comment-page-1/#comment-550802 Julia Waymon Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:18:37 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/#comment-550802 Hi! I would like to convey that I love all your publishing style and that I want to check your blog often from now ;) Keep writing! Hi! I would like to convey that I love all your publishing style and that I want to check your blog often from now ;) Keep writing!

]]> By: Michael Esposito http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/comment-page-1/#comment-472448 Michael Esposito Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:36:18 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/#comment-472448 There have been a number of articles online that have cleared up the misconception that Vince Colletta erased huge amounts of Kirby's pencils. It turns out that there were a few examples, no more or less than the norm for most inkers, that became ammunition for a few Colletta-bashers. Through the efforts of uninformed posters like James Van Hise, rumors and outright lies become legend instead and that's a shame. Colletta was a professional in the business for thirty or fourty years and deserves better than slop like this. There have been a number of articles online that have cleared up the misconception that Vince Colletta erased huge amounts of Kirby’s pencils. It turns out that there were a few examples, no more or less than the norm for most inkers, that became ammunition for a few Colletta-bashers.

Through the efforts of uninformed posters like James Van Hise, rumors and outright lies become legend instead and that’s a shame. Colletta was a professional in the business for thirty or fourty years and deserves better than slop like this.

]]> By: Mr. Williams http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/comment-page-1/#comment-445131 Mr. Williams Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:52:31 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/#comment-445131 Mr. Van Hise is a typical Kirby-phile who has toed the party line regarding Colletta. Anyone who says that Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta's Thor books weren't the best of the best comics have ever had to offer is partially blind. If you showed Mr. Van Hise a nice Kirby-Colletta page he would say Yuk just as Republicans still feel that GW Bush has been a competent president. Ignorance can not be repaired or removed, unfortunately. Mr. Van Hise is a typical Kirby-phile who has toed the party line regarding Colletta. Anyone who says that Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta’s Thor books weren’t the best of the best comics have ever had to offer is partially blind. If you showed Mr. Van Hise a nice Kirby-Colletta page he would say Yuk just as Republicans still feel that GW Bush has been a competent president. Ignorance can not be repaired or removed, unfortunately.

]]> By: James Van Hise http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/comment-page-1/#comment-354475 James Van Hise Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:01:44 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/#comment-354475 Vince Colletta did very good work (Thor) and very bad work (on FF). Unfortunately by the 1980s many artists refused to allow Colletta to ink their work if they had any say about it. John Romita Sr. in particular considered this to be a perk of being art director at Marvel--he could keep Colletta off his art. He was so unpopular with artists at Marvel in the 1980s that only his friendship with Jim Shooter kept him getting work. Colletta was pretty much forgotten after he died until JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR began printing uninked Kirby pencils and then showed how the pages looked after Colletta inked them, showing that Vince had erased characters and backgrounds from Kirby's art. This cannot be defended no matter how much you think Colletta was a fine artist and a great guy. Vince Colletta did very good work (Thor) and very bad work (on FF). Unfortunately by the 1980s many artists refused to allow Colletta to ink their work if they had any say about it. John Romita Sr. in particular considered this to be a perk of being art director at Marvel–he could keep Colletta off his art. He was so unpopular with artists at Marvel in the 1980s that only his friendship with Jim Shooter kept him getting work. Colletta was pretty much forgotten after he died until JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR began printing uninked Kirby pencils and then showed how the pages looked after Colletta inked them, showing that Vince had erased characters and backgrounds from Kirby’s art. This cannot be defended no matter how much you think Colletta was a fine artist and a great guy.

]]> By: DK http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/comment-page-1/#comment-353054 DK Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:48:56 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/03/30/quote-unquote-46/#comment-353054 ...man, I knew so many people who were working on EPIC submissions when the whole thing got killed... …man, I knew so many people who were working on EPIC submissions when the whole thing got killed…

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