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JVJ (RIP):
Actually, my memory fails me again.

Malan's source was a list from Bill Briggs updated by Hames Ware (and me only indirectly). The credit in Malan's book is "Bill Briggs, Hames Ware, Jerry Bails and others.", a cast worth mentioning by all accounts. The list I shared with Malan was nowhere near as complete as the Briggs/Ware list (my copy of which is even more complete than what appears in Malan's book or on the website).

I have SO much data just stashed in binders, books, folders and on note cards here, narf, that finding the time to write such a book might tax even my ability to grasp at informational straws. I spoke to Hames tonight about the possibility of conspiring on such a definitive project and we both gasped at the magnitude of the research necessary and the organizational skills we'd have to throw at the task.

Who knows? Hames has notes and correspondence with people like Raphael Astarita, the second artist hired by Chesler in 1936, and Hames claims that he had a photographic memory. We're wondering if we might not HAVE to do it, since no one else really has access to the resources. Where does one find the time for such a project? We have TAPES of conversations with Astarita and who even HAS a reel to reel recorder/player any more. Even technology is conspiring against us.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

JVJ (RIP):
ps. Bill Jones wrote a book on CI that is probably as up to date as anything yet done. And FWIW, the second version of The Adventures of Cellini (C.I. 38) is drawn by Italian artist Dino Battaglia. I don't know if that has ever been officially recorded anywhere. I confirmed it when looking at some Battaglia reprints in Paris two years ago.

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narfstar:
As you say Jim but if not you who. There may be a college that will give credit to students who would help you undertake such

Yoc:
Interesting idea Narf.
Something like Cat Yronwode did with Eisner for her complete Eisner listing only times 1000.
;)

narfstar:
Narrative fills space and makes more pages and takes longer to write. An encyclopedia would not be a "fun" read but would present all the information factually. Another option would be an error report. There are lots of books on comics with good facts but some errors. Crawford's appears to be so poor it would take a book to fix but others have better and a few fixes would help to stop perpetuating the fallacies. The more I think about it the more I think that would do the most to end the fallacies. Does that sound like an easier task Jim? A book or web posting "Fixing the Fallacies: Error Correction from Comic Book Histories"

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