We're almost done with our review of MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED, THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, which uses examples culled from the pages of Marvel comics to illustrate different points of film theory. This was a ubiquitous tome among comic book artists in the mid-1970s. A trio of IRON MAN panels from Johnny Craig lead off this final section. … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Six
We're back with more of this early 1970s reference volume which illustrated points of filmmaking through the use of examples culled from Marvel Comics. I find this chapter interesting, in that it instructs in the use of sound in a motion picture by using examples from a medium that doesn't have any sound. Some George … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Five
Continuing our look through MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, a 1973 release that explained assorted filmmaking techniques and terminology by using visual examples culled from then-recent Marvel comics. A Johnny Craig sequence from IRON MAN opens this chapter. Panels by John Buscema and Jack Kirby Some more John Buscema here. A Barry Smith CONAN sequence … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Four
Continuing back with our look at this 1973 release that explained elements of filmmaking storytelling and composition by using visual examples selected from contemporaneous Marvel comic books. This was a volume that could be found in many an artist's drawing space during the 1970s. A sequence illustrated by Larry Lieber. Here are two sequences by … Continue reading MOVIEMAKING ILLUSTRATED: THE COMICBOOK FILMBOOK, Part Two
My brother was at this time still continuing to buy CONAN THE BARBARIAN, who had become one of his passing fancies. And so ultimately he picked up this issue when it was released. Eventually, the book would wind up in my eventual possession. CONAN was a huge series and a huge character for Marvel throughout … Continue reading BHOC: CONAN #98
This next issue of THOR got back to the business at hand after four months of fill-ins. It kicked off a long, sprawling saga in which writer/editor Roy Thomas attempted to integrate Jack Kirby's Eternals into the continuity of the Marvel Universe. This is akin to trying to drive a square peg into a round … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #283
It was an exciting day when this Fantastic Four-themed MARVEL TREASURY EDITION showed up at my local 7-11. Because of their size, the Treasury Editions were racked with the general magazines rather than by the comic book spinner rack, meaning that you needed to know to go and look for them. As FANTASTIC FOUR was … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TREASURY EDITION #21
I come from a family of readers, and so every time we'd go out to the mall or to another shopping center on the weekends, as typically happened most Saturdays, we almost always stopped into any bookstores that happened to be around. Our main destination, the Smith Haven Mall, had three if you can believe … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK POCKET BOOKS Volume 2
As I indicated a bunch of entries back, at around this time my younger brother Ken had become passingly interested in CONAN THE BARBARIAN. So he'd bought issue #97 at our local 7-11 and seemed to like it well enough. At some point, on one or another shopping expedition, our family must have ended up … Continue reading BHOC: CONAN THE BARBARIAN #96
From time to time, my younger brother Ken would become interested in one comic book title or genre or another, and for a brief period of a few months read and collect it. I'm not entirely sure what caused his attraction to CONAN THE BARBARIAN at this particular moment, but for the next couple of … Continue reading BHOC: CONAN #97
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