tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post7339784535878697777..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1420: Jay Disbrow and the Tarzan homagePappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-47742126922405443172013-08-18T22:16:04.693-07:002013-08-18T22:16:04.693-07:00I just discovered The Aroc site with the Flash Gor...I just discovered The Aroc site with the Flash Gordon type of character. Is Jay Disbrow still around? I tried to e mail the site and it came back undelivered. I do enjoy the retro style and wish there were more artists with his sense of design. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815290575131943001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-41749539168570324342013-08-18T02:30:01.603-07:002013-08-18T02:30:01.603-07:00rnigma, as an artist, Disbrow's work does seem...rnigma, as an artist, Disbrow's work does seem "fixed" in a time and place. I'm not complaining, since I like that time and place, but I wonder if his style just would have been too old-fashioned for readers who did not remember Alex Raymond's <i>Flash Gordon</i>.<br /><br />As you say, even Raymond moved past his <i>Flash Gordon</i> style with <i>Rip Kirby</i>. An artist like Al Williamson, who loved that earlier style and could replicate it well, also realized that the world had moved on.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-22453508303605843572013-08-16T16:42:00.318-07:002013-08-16T16:42:00.318-07:00I recall a CBG article Disbrow wrote, basically st...I recall a CBG article Disbrow wrote, basically stating he idolized Alex Raymond but did not care for Milton Caniff's style. Yet Raymond did not draw "Rip Kirby" in the same manner he drew "Flash Gordon;" he knew that a private eye saga demanded a different treatment than a space opera.<br />"Flames of Gyro" just screams "Flash Gordon pastiche" (though a loving one, I'm sure). I wonder if Jayson tried to interest King Features in letting him draw Flash.rnigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01370724366178429029noreply@blogger.com