tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post5332396847070521080..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2226: Gone, yet still with usPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-43366395680423686322018-09-06T08:52:33.675-07:002018-09-06T08:52:33.675-07:00To all: it's very hard to say goodbye to anyon...To all: it's very hard to say goodbye to anyone whose life and work we have admired. But when a person has had a long career, and has left a lot to remember them by, then they seem to me to be here. The artists mentioned in your notes also have much to remember them by.<br /><br />Because time is relative to each of us, I was genuinely surprised when Wrightson died. Wrightson was my age, not like many of the other artists, who had outlived their biblical "threescore and ten" by a couple of decades. Then I zoomed back to reality. I'm 71! I've outlived that marker, also, if only by a year.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-6188323682705449172018-08-30T11:55:50.530-07:002018-08-30T11:55:50.530-07:00Yet another passing to note today, in fact two. F...Yet another passing to note today, in fact two. First was Marie Severin. Then we learned Gary Friedrich died too.Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-16664979189952371642018-08-29T22:22:00.332-07:002018-08-29T22:22:00.332-07:00One could be sure, almost from the very beginning ...One could be sure, almost from the very beginning of “The Mask of Drothor”, that the villain's face would be transformed by the mask; the only thing that one could not predict was whether he remove the mask and find his face transformed, or find that the mask itself had become his face. Actually, though, to be consistent, the visage of Drothor ought somehow to dissolve. <br /><br />In any case, what makes the story interesting is Ditko's art. For Marvel, he was an extremely able illustrator of dark tales of magic in the late '50s and early '60s, and in the case of Doctor Strange into the late '60s. Stan Lee would crank-out one predictable, formulaïc tale after another, but they'd be worth reading because of Ditko. He was then a first-rate illustrator of horror fiction, but drawing stories limited by the Comics Code and otherwise by the scripts or outlines that he was handed. <br /><br />But the other problem for him was that he came to embrace a philosophy that did not coëxist comfortably with supernatural fiction, and especially not with horror fiction. He was ideologically pushed or pulled away from work of the sort that he best did, into work for which he was <i>far</i> less well suited. Mind you that I have some sympathies for that ideology and think that Ditko even represented a more humanized variant of it. But he simply wasn't well suited to express that philosophy in the form of illustration. Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-82996062169954695282018-08-29T18:13:37.811-07:002018-08-29T18:13:37.811-07:00And the latest to leave us is the great Russ Heath...And the latest to leave us is the great Russ Heath. He was prolific through the fifties right up to almost the present.flashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05745217114700809891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-89592681390275060292018-08-29T07:37:35.230-07:002018-08-29T07:37:35.230-07:00Brilliant. Just brilliant stuff. There's not...Brilliant. Just brilliant stuff. There's nothing to add, old (reprinted) Atlas horror tales by 4 of the greats. Thank you!Brian Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-36827623134872963582018-08-29T02:46:06.415-07:002018-08-29T02:46:06.415-07:00Hi Pappy - Did you hear that Russ Heath died last ...Hi Pappy - Did you hear that Russ Heath died last week? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/russ-heath-dead-comic-book-artist-was-91-1137353Brad S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04859168410639247441noreply@blogger.com