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Monday, January 10, 2005
The Fabulous Baker Sketch
Here's a cool thing on eBay. Rich Johnston is auctioning off an original colorized sketch by Kyle Baker. Baker is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the best living cartoonists and is currently writing and drawing one of the best superhero comics out today, Plastic Man. Johnston's got a baby on the way so you know the money here is for a good cause.
There's a neat little story to this sketch. It was Baker's sign of gratitude because Johnston supplied the cartoonist with a copy of Elseworlds 80-Page Giant. You might remember that was the comic that DC President Paul Levitz had pulped so even the talent involved like Baker didn't get a copy. People in Britain did get a few so Johnston was good enough to send a copy to Baker. The sektch is a parody of Action Comics #1 featuring a baby Clark Kent, the star of Baker's Elseworlds story (which eventually found its way into Bizarro Comics), with Levitz running away in the foreground. I think it's a cute joke at the expense of Levitz's bizarre and distressing habit of censoring DC content (see also: Cobweb and The Authority). It's like he's the opposite of the CBLDF! Oh wait...
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