Scorchy Smith!
Tom unearths the wonderful news that a Scorchy Smith collection is underway as announced by Dean Mullaney on a mailing list:
On the subject of future projects, since we’ve already sent the solicitation info to our book distributor, I can announce that in June 2008, I will release an oversized, 11″ x 11″ hardcover: SCORCHY SMITH AND THE ART OF NOEL SICKLES through IDW. It will contain the complete Sickles Scorchy for the first time ever, plus about 60 pages of Sickles’s magazine and other illustrations.
SCORCHY SMITH was a popular aviator comic strip of the day, and Sickles was a studio mate of Caniff’s whose “chiaroscuro” style was hugely influential on artists of the period.
