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Dan Adkins
BobS:
--- Quote from: JVJ on August 27, 2010, 12:42:30 PM ---Always glad to help, Bob,
hat or no hat, it's wonderful the stuff you can find on the web if you look - well, at least I'm constantly amazed by it. Rudy Franke was a local guy (San Jose) and we used to run into each other at the shops. He sort of introduced us to Corben and that's how we got him involved in Promethean. Same with Jonny Chambers. Man, those were wonderful days.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I have original Biljo White art of the Eye, from Voice of Comicdom. It was done like a newspaper comic strip and VOC also had strips by Ron Foss, etc.par
The first Corben art I ever saw was "Monsters Rule" in VOC. That story attacks anti-miscegenation by having human - alien sex. I have always been amused by the bestiality aspect of Corben's Rowlf. (I'm poking Yoc and Narf now for partially gagging me.)
I still have multiple copies of Promethean Ent. #5, if mem. serves the one with R. Crumb interview and foldout Robert Williams cover painting. IMO Prometh. Ent. #5 was probably the best fanzine of all time.
Since I'm in a poking mood, Jim, do you think R. Crumb's Comics and Stories was autobiographical? Do you think that maybe Sandra Crumb's anger/hate of her brother R. arose from event like that in R. Crumb's Comics and Stories? Crumb was here in Richmond a few months ago, but I didn't go because I didn't want to PAY to see him, and I wasn't happy with the format of the discussion -- one of his friends asking him questions. I wonder if anyone ever asked him my question above.
I saw Ken Kesey at VCU (Richmond) at no charge. He seemed to indicate regret that excessive pot (etc.) use might make folks lazy and stupid.
I saw Arthur C. Clarke (accused by some of having been a pedophile -- he was openly bisexual) at VPI (Blacksburg VA) back circa 1968. He had been invited by a fellow colleague, a physics prof at VPI / Va Tech. Clarke answered questions about his sf and was very congenial. At that talk I met Steve Rasnic Tem only then he was (if mem. serves) Steve Rasnick. Rasnic Tem showed me an original Vaughn Bode drawing someone in N3F had GIVEN him!
I vaguely remember another fanzine associated(?) with Voice of Comicdom, if mem. serves published by Bill Dubay....
Peace and mischief!
Bob
JVJ (RIP):
Lots of memories, Bob,
and thanks for the compliment.
As for your questions, I can answer them all with "You actually READ comics?" and "I find that the less I know about the private lives of artists, usually the better off I remain." I just like to look at the pictures, man.
ps. I'm willing to bet that Bud Plant still has unopened BOXES of PE #5.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
BobS:
--- Quote from: JVJ on September 08, 2010, 06:43:07 PM ---Lots of memories, Bob,
and thanks for the compliment.
As for your questions, I can answer them all with "You actually READ comics?" and "I find that the less I know about the private lives of artists, usually the better off I remain." I just like to look at the pictures, man.
ps. I'm willing to bet that Bud Plant still has unopened BOXES of PE #5.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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I've been reading 'em since 1958, and I probably read (or at least looked at the pictures) Sunday comic strips from earlier.
If comic books are to be accepted as (occasionally) art then questions of lives of artists need to be asked.
Also Crumb probably started the autobiographical comics thing, and has made public some of his dirty laundry.
Also dirty laundry of other members of his family, and probably hurt feelings very much of members of his family because of his thoughtless invasions of THEIR privacy.
Drug use likely released Crumb utterly from his inhibitions. Head Comix (1970) is a good anthology of Crumb's earlier more uninhibited stuff.
I think he's trying to be slightly more 'respectable' these days. The Genesis book is maybe an example of
the more 'mature' (IMO self-consciously serious) Crumb.
Peace and disgruntledness (poo on John C. -- there's no censor like a fundamentalist Christian censor, except maybe a fundamentalist Islamic censor),
Bob
John C:
--- Quote from: BobS on September 09, 2010, 04:27:45 PM ---Peace and disgruntledness (poo on John C. -- there's no censor like a fundamentalist Christian censor, except maybe a fundamentalist Islamic censor),
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Bob, if you want to invent a background or motive for me or if you have a problem with me, you take it up with me personally; my personal e-mail address is right there to the left where it always has been. If you want to, pardon my language, bitch about people in public, take it to a forum where people might care.
We're here to talk about comics. You want to talk about someplace else, open your own forum and you can talk about whatever you like. Next time, you're banned from the system. Call it censorship if you want, but if you know what the word means, you know you're a liar. You have the right to publish, not to BE published.
I fully support your right to spew ignorant hate, and would go to bat for you if someone tries to close down your personal soapbox someday, but you won't be doing it in any private space where I have a responsibility to keep people comfortable. Same goes for anybody posting porn, spam, television reviews, or math proofs, and if you don't understand that, you have my sympathies, but no apology.
narfstar:
Dang Jon I'm teaching Geometry this year and thought you all would love me sharing some proofs.
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