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Monday, February 25, 2008
Random Mondays?
Yeah right, this whole weekend I was running around like a madman covering WonderCon for both Newsarama and Publishers Weekly Comics Week. I didn't have any device granting me wi-fi either. I had to walk back and forth from the Moscone Center to Sony's Meteron a.k.a. The Disney Version of Blade Runner to get on-line. No random Mondays today because I'm tired as Hell. Maybe you'll get a Random Tuesday.
It was hard work covering the convention but fun (although in my quest to be timely in my coverage there re some bone-headed mistakes in some articles. Nothing too bad but still...) The highlight for me was getting my hands on a copy of Mark Evanier's book Kirby: The King of Comics. Goodness what a package! If you're any fan of Kirby your eyes will turn into diamonds scanning all the gorgeous art in this book. I haven't even gotten to reading Evanier's prose but I know there are plenty of fun anecdotes running around that man's head about Kirby and beyond.
I'll reprint this one from my own coverage of the Kirby panels (and yeah I know, it's Sgt. Fury not Sgt. Rock):
“I was at Bob Kane’s funeral,” Evanier said. “There were only four people from comics there: me, Stan Lee, Mike Barr and Paul Smith. A whole bunch of Batman toys were put into Kane’s coffin and they were lowering it down. As the Kane was being put into the ground Stan turned around to me and said ‘Steve Ditko was the best inker Jack Kirby ever had.’” Evanier admitted that Lee didn’t have the best attention span.
Oh to live a life where you can tell a tale such as that.
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That's the most amazing comics story I've ever heard!
# posted by Frank Santoro : 2:21 PM
Thank you for one of the best Stan Lee quotes (via Evanier) ever.
# posted by QATim : 8:52 PM
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