Continuing our look at THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, a fan comic book produced by writer Kurt Busiek and artist Scott McCloud while they were in high school together.
Sorry, for some reason Page 17 is missing in the copy I got this all from.
Cameos from what I assume were Kurt and Scott’s circle of friends.
While it’s still not quite up to professional levels, you can see Scott in particular improve on his storytelling the further into teh book we go. That said, he’s still putting too many panels on each page, and his page flow is often haphazard and confusing. But he is making strides here.
Believe it or not, this only takes us up to about the halfway point in teh issue. So more to follow soon.
The Tom Brevoort Experience 
“Cameos from what I assume were Kurt and Scott’s circle of friends.”
A.k.a. “the audience.”
And yeah, we can’t find the original to page 17. Somewhere, we have a slide of it, and somewhere we have Xeroxes. But they’re…somewhere.
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I’m impressed by how ambitious this is, and the sustained effort that clearly went into it. I know from experience that these kind of fan projects often start out with a great deal of enthusiasm, then tend to peter out the longer they take. Kurt, do you recall how long this took, start to finish? Did you write a full script and then hand it off to Scott, or was the process more organic?
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It took three years, as a spare-time thing.
And it was very much “Marvel-style.” I did a very rough outline, and we’d flesh it out as we went along. I can’t remember if we talked things through and then I wrote up plot notes or if we talked them through and Scott would just draw them from there. Maybe some of each.
We did have a blast, plotting the action by walking through the settings we’d be using, and going, “Okay, Mr. Fantastic wraps an arm around that pillar, but Iceman comes down from over there…” blocking it out like a movie. The characters were fictional, the sets were real.
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Oh, and I should add: We thought it was going to be 15 pages long, and we’d finish it in a few weeks.
We had a lot to learn. And we did!
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The fun you guys were having definitely shines through in the finished product. Thanks for the peek “behind the scenes”.
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