So whoi are you,. where did you "com rfrom " and why are you into comics or graphic novels ?
i'm jjames .. i live in maryland and I'm a graphic designer.
I starting loving comic books after seeing ReevesSuperman movie asa child and then came swamp trhing.. transformers voltorn.. gi joe etc.. early 80's tv was FILLEd with fantasy toon everywhere So it just peakeeed my mind to find all i could. So now i do some drawing on the side when i'm not designing ads posters cd covers and such :)
Well this is a very short intro to who i am.. I am curious who our other Members are in the group...
i'm jjames .. i live in maryland and I'm a graphic designer.
I starting loving comic books after seeing ReevesSuperman movie asa child and then came swamp trhing.. transformers voltorn.. gi joe etc.. early 80's tv was FILLEd with fantasy toon everywhere So it just peakeeed my mind to find all i could. So now i do some drawing on the side when i'm not designing ads posters cd covers and such :)
Well this is a very short intro to who i am.. I am curious who our other Members are in the group...
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Mon, April 18, 2005 - 8:07 AMHello, I'm Devastator Jr.
I think the first comic I can remember was the old Dial H for Hero, I guess the second version, back in the early 80's. I also remember getting those DC digest compilations, it had the Alan Moore Swamp thing story in it where Swamp Thing gives his girlfriend a psychedelic tuber in a bizarre plant/woman love ritual.
I live in NY city and occasionally try to draw comics. My favorite stuff is sort of Vertigo style (though I don't read too many actual Vertigo books these days) superhero books, like The Ultimates and Planetary, and basically all those British guys -- Moore, Morrison, Ennis, Ellis. And also Love and Rockets and Anything by Mobius. -
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Thu, April 21, 2005 - 10:40 AMSan Francisco.
Cuz reading is FUNdamental.
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 9:06 AMHey, I'm in S.F., Started reading comics REALLY young. Richie Rich and all that stuff. Then I ran across an X-Men in a 7-11, it was that issue with the Starjammers and those spider looking aliens a little bit before the Brood epic. Too lazy to look up the issue number. Anyways, it went from there.
Eddie Campbell, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Seinkevichz (sp?). Hell there's LOTS. Tank Girl, the Mask, Concrete, Dark Horse Presents, Grendel, Top 10, Smax.
Don't collect anymore, been haulin' around 9 long boxes for YEARS now. Freakin' pain in the arse. But hopefully my son will enjoy them.
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Thu, May 12, 2005 - 11:28 AMI live in Hollwood and right around the block from my comic book store, Golden Apple. I read DC titles. I basically follows former Earth II heroes such as JSA, & Hawkman, plus Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Superman & Batman, the the new Infinity Crisis line of books. I started with the JLA/JSA cross-overs. I think it was in the original run of JLA around issue 70 or so with both Supermen fighting. I also loved Batman at the time but who didn't. It was on TV twice a week.
I love the revised CATMAN.
Currently, my favorite heros are Hawkman and Green Lantern.
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Thu, May 12, 2005 - 12:21 PMI live in Pasadena, CA, but was born in Michigan and grew up in a great 1920's house, with a walk-up attic. It was there that I discovered my Dad's couple of boxes of comics that he had collected when he was a kid in the 50's. It was mostly DC titles with a few independent titles thrown in. I got hooked on old issues of 'Action Comics', 'Superman', 'Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen', 'Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane', 'World's Finest' (guest-starring Batwoman), 'Metal Men', and 'Magnus - Robot Fighter'. Unortunately when we made the move to CA we left most of those comics behind, dangit!
I didn't develop my own addiction until a few years later, one of my first self-purchased comics being an Alan Moore issue of 'Swamp Thing' (at a time where comic books could still be found at most convenience stores). It blew me away! I became addicted immediately, rediscovering Superman and a bunch of other titles. I now have close to 30 long boxes sitting in my Mom's garage (no WAY could they fit in my one-bedroom apartment). Thankfully she doesn't seem to mind, but I'm not looking forward to the day when she decides to move to a smaller place.
I don't purchase nearly as many titles as I used to, but I'm attached to all my old issues - a 'packrat' mentality if there ever was one. -
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Sun, May 15, 2005 - 9:32 AMI can't remember the first comic book I picked up, but the first one I started collecting was ROM Spaceknight. I expanded to X-men, Alpha Flight and anything with John Byrne's name attached to it. Later I went on to collect the original TMNT and Alien Legion. Frank Miller and Batman led to my demise as I watched Batman get WAY to popular and Todd McFarlane burned out on Spider-Man.
Occasionally, I'll look at what's out there now, I picked up DK2 and Sin City because of my old attachment. Nothing new has really grabbed me, but I don't look to hard because I don't want the money trap of monthly buying to suck me dry. -
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 6:32 AMso if to many people like a comic it loses it's edge ? -
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 4:15 PMNo, I dislike the 'bandwagon' that oversaturates and diminishes something I enjoy.
A prefect example: TMNT. I cringe when people respond 'Oh, the pizza eating skateboarders? I love them! Cowabunga, dude!'
I nearly had a coronary when I heard there was a female turtle. There was an issue where the turtles had the realization that they were unique. A female turtle blows that to hell. Even Laird had resentment about it after the matter... -
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 4:23 PMOn that note, any good TMNT graphic novels you can recommend?
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Tue, May 17, 2005 - 4:08 AMI'm afraid not. I mostly bought single issues. When they released bundled editions, I grabbed them so I could preserve the single issues.
Anything from the first year is worth owning, as are the one-shot mini series they did of the individual turtles: the Raphael one was my personal favorite because Casey Jones was introduced. -
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Tue, May 17, 2005 - 4:18 PMEastman and Laird are a big success story. They kept the rights to the TMNT and made a mint. There was Turtles everything in the 80's, pizza napkins, toothpaste, condoms. And every couple of years, they can do a new version of the cartoon to another generation of kids. Would that all comics creators could be so lucky, or smart. -
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Tue, May 17, 2005 - 6:26 PMSuccess? Indeed. Merchandising was overkill nevertheless. And they are on their next version for the kids now: It's less juvenile, but it didn't grab me. I guess the black-and-white of the comic did something for me.
Fortunately Stan Lee is getting his. and McFarlane has done rather well himself. Perhaps not on the same scale, but Alex Ross. If you don't own Mythologies, you're missing out. -
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Sun, June 19, 2005 - 11:10 AMYeah..... I see the FF movie seriously fattening Stan "The Man's" wallet.... lol... -
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Mon, June 20, 2005 - 10:44 AMStan isn't getting phat stacks on the movies, its a relatively small amount. The court case gave him some back money as I recall that made a real difference though. -
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Fri, July 1, 2005 - 11:56 AMI imagine so, and rightfully so at that....... I imagine he was shorted some signifigant royalties.
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Sun, June 11, 2006 - 7:30 PMMy name is Robert.
I was born and raised in southern california, mostly urban areas.
I like art, I like stories. I grew up watching super hero cartoons like spiderman, x men, batman, and even the Tick. I developed a love for animated people and stories that push the imagination when a friend of mine reintroduced me to comic books a few years ago with stuff by Neil Gaiman.
I do stuff in photoshop for local bands. Flyers, cd covers etc but I am not a very good hand artist. I love comic books though and wish I knew someone who drew so I could write one. I've been plotting a story and outlining it. I want to make it but with out an artist I'm haulted.
