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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: bminor on July 19, 2017, 05:21:51 PM

Title: Nifty MATT BAKER!!! Article!!!!
Post by: bminor on July 19, 2017, 05:21:51 PM

http://yesweekly.com/piedmont-born-comic-book-pioneer-matt-baker/

Title: Re: Nifty MATT BAKER!!! Article!!!!
Post by: crashryan on July 19, 2017, 10:39:22 PM

Thanks for the tip. Excellent article. I still wonder how Baker wound up pencilling for Vince Colletta's Charlton shop at the end of his life. I wonder if his health was already failing and he knocked out what he could get.

Title: Re: Nifty MATT BAKER!!! Article!!!!
Post by: erwin-k on July 20, 2017, 08:17:58 AM

Nice. Much more detail than most comic artist's bios.


Side note: The first comic I ever scanned, Northwest Mounties #3, had nice Matt Baker art.

Title: Re: Nifty MATT BAKER!!! Article!!!!
Post by: Yoc on July 21, 2017, 10:08:14 AM

Thanks very much for the link.  Some great, nice and big too, pictures there.  I haven't read the Amish bio yet so this is the first I've ever heard that Baker was gay or bi-sexual as mentioned in the last paragraph.

-Yoc

Title: Re: Nifty MATT BAKER!!! Article!!!!
Post by: Poztron on July 21, 2017, 09:00:45 PM

bminor,
Thanks for the pointer to the article on Matt Baker. Baker was always one of my favorite artists. I first was turned onto him in the late '60s - early '70s, when I used to pick up funky copies of Fiction House comics for a buck apiece at comic and SF cons of the era. Sky Girl! Yes!!  Anyway, I later learned that some of what I thought were Baker babes were more likely Iger pseudo-Baker house style strips, but it is still impressive that there was a studio house style devoted to aping his style. It is tragic that he died so young. May he belatedly get all the recognition he deserves.

Title: Re: Nifty MATT BAKER!!! Article!!!!
Post by: CBpop on July 28, 2017, 08:28:15 PM

Excellent, thanks for the link