Comments on: Scorchy Smith! http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Alex raymond http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-611384 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:48:33 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-611384 Ooooooohhhh yeah! Dean Mullaney is the king of comics. The guy is a master and knows how to present the material in quality HC books. 11 x 11 Scorchy Smith with Sickles illustrations also...woooow, thats better doing than europeans. Cant wait for that babe. It is going to be a treasure to hold, read, and have standing nicely on my bookshelf. God, I would love to see Rip Kirby in the same 11 x 11 format! Two years at a time. Ooooohhh. Ooooooohhhh yeah! Dean Mullaney is the king of comics. The guy is a master and knows how to present the material in quality HC books. 11 x 11 Scorchy Smith with Sickles illustrations also…woooow, thats better doing than europeans. Cant wait for that babe. It is going to be a treasure to hold, read, and have standing nicely on my bookshelf.

God, I would love to see Rip Kirby in the same 11 x 11 format! Two years at a time. Ooooohhh.

]]> by: STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: November 1, 2007 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-493161 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:43:18 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-493161 [...] Scorchy Smith! from THE BEAT [...] […] Scorchy Smith! from THE BEAT […]

]]> by: pulphope http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-492331 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:05:50 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-492331 Hooray! It's about time! Sickles' work has been pretty hard to track down, you usually have an easier time finding old copies of Life or Readers' Digest with his illos in it than you do samples of his comics. I have random xeroxes from the old (was it?) Nostalgia Press edition? Plus a bit from the Kitchen Sink Steve Canyons... The Nostalgia Press edition is really fine. It has a really nice Caniff/Sickles prose portrait in there. I hope Dean gets access to the biographical materials as well--Sickles was wildly talented and extremely versatile. Matt Maxwell-- I doubt there will be a strip reprint glut any time soon. There is such little quality material being currently published that I reckon there will always be an audience for the good stuff. A manga glut is another matter though. Hooray! It’s about time!

Sickles’ work has been pretty hard to track down, you usually have an easier time finding old copies of Life or Readers’ Digest with his illos in it than you do samples of his comics. I have random xeroxes from the old (was it?) Nostalgia Press edition? Plus a bit from the Kitchen Sink Steve Canyons…

The Nostalgia Press edition is really fine. It has a really nice Caniff/Sickles prose portrait in there. I hope Dean gets access to the biographical materials as well–Sickles was wildly talented and extremely versatile.

Matt Maxwell– I doubt there will be a strip reprint glut any time soon. There is such little quality material being currently published that I reckon there will always be an audience for the good stuff.

A manga glut is another matter though.

]]> by: Leland Purvis http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-491408 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:42:47 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-491408 Sickles is one of those terribly under-appreciated artists, despite the huge impact he had on Toth and Caniff, among others. Definitely a book to pick up. Little known fact: The first printing of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was in LIFE magazine in Sept'52. It was accompanied by illustrations by Noel Sickles. Sickles is one of those terribly under-appreciated artists, despite the huge impact he had on Toth and Caniff, among others. Definitely a book to pick up.

Little known fact: The first printing of Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea was in LIFE magazine in Sept’52. It was accompanied by illustrations by Noel Sickles.

]]> by: Steve Taylor http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-490630 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:40:10 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-490630 Not only an influence on the great comics artists of his day but on artists of today as well!!!! http://www.angelakinggallery.com/taylor_detail_art4.php Not only an influence on the great comics artists of his day but on artists of today as well!!!!
http://www.angelakinggallery.com/taylor_detail_art4.php

]]> by: Matt Tauber http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-490578 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:56:24 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-490578 This is great news. For more info about Sickles check out R.C. Harvey's bio of Caniff, as their lives intertwined for quite awhile. This is great news. For more info about Sickles check out R.C. Harvey’s bio of Caniff, as their lives intertwined for quite awhile.

]]> by: Beau Smith http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-490140 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:43:28 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-490140 Scorchy Smith is amazing stuff by Sickles. As mentioned, Sickles is a major influence on so many of the great artists of comics like Don Heck, John Romita and many more. This will be a real treasure for anyone that appreciates comics and great art. With Dean Mullaney's love of the craft/design and IDW's incredible formatting this will be great. Beau Scorchy Smith is amazing stuff by Sickles. As mentioned, Sickles is a major influence on so many of the great artists of comics like Don Heck, John Romita and many more. This will be a real treasure for anyone that appreciates comics and great art. With Dean Mullaney’s love of the craft/design and IDW’s incredible formatting this will be great.

Beau

]]> by: Chet http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-489859 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:38:16 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-489859 I'm buyin' this for sure! I’m buyin’ this for sure!

]]> by: Patrick Dean http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-489540 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:18:43 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-489540 That one panel looks amazing. That one panel looks amazing.

]]> by: Matt Maxwell http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-489398 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:20:01 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/30/scorchy-smith/#comment-489398 Mea culpa. I'd never heard of this before (comic strips far from being an area of expertise or even awareness of mine), but it looks pretty irresistable. But how long until people start talking about the strip reprint glut...? Mea culpa. I’d never heard of this before (comic strips far from being an area of expertise or even awareness of mine), but it looks pretty irresistable.

But how long until people start talking about the strip reprint glut…?

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