…always hard. As soon as I was legally free to do so, I started laying the groundwork for DEFIANT. One of the first things I did was meet with Steve Ditko. We met several times and had a number of conversations. One of them, the first DEFIANT related conversation, I…
Search results: "label/19 DEFIANT" Page 1 of 3
…intellectual progressive, maybe? Whatever. Don’t make too much of that assessment. I don’t mean to label the guy. The point is that his position was miles away from Steve’s. Which is not to label Steve a conservative or anything else. I wouldn’t attempt to categorize Steve’s point of view. I…
I first met Steve Ditko sometime in 1977. For the life of me, I can’t remember where. It might have been at Continuity, Neal Adams’ studio. Continuity was the crossroads of the comics industry. Besides the people who actually worked there, a lot of artists would show up looking for…
…of the Caribbean or EC’s New Trend Piracy. That label doesn’t do One Piece justice. It’s set in its own universe. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece#Setting> I saw DEFIANT and Broadway as being in the Japanese genre-bending tradition. Those lines would have become even more diverse over time. If I had to pick one…
…industry. Watch. The Beginning of the End? My second comic book company, DEFIANT launched the following August, 1993, the very month that industry sales fell off the edge of the table and began a plunge into the abyss. Industry sales volume fell catastrophically starting that month. DEFIANT did well for…
…for the first time since I knew him, he was getting proper recognition for it. He was a star! One evening, months later, he invited me over. We went out to dinner, then went back to his home for coffee. I was in the process of starting up DEFIANT. Almost…
…where we are honestly enough (if occasionally stupidly). The comic book industry has few friends as good as Steve Geppi. A Trip to Timonium I spent most of September 11, 2008 with Steve Geppi and Herman Rush. Sometime early on during my DEFIANT days, I was introduced to Herman Rush…
…had since Clint Eastwood. They gave me this tee-shirt as a thank-you. Oh, and a dinner. At which they made a pitch to represent DEFIANT.) Meanwhile, back at Marvel…. As explained yesterday, we had huge numbers of submissions pouring in. Interestingly, the Try-Out Book actually cut down the flow a…
…J.C. Debbie, JayJay, Joe and me…! There we were as in olden days, happy golden days of yore—at DEFIANT and Broadway Comics. Debbie and JayJay, of course, were with me at VALIANT, too. It’s always great to see them. Adam Phillips worked with me for a while at Marvel long…
Defiant 1 offered a link to a must-read article in this comment: Defiant1 has left a new comment on your post “Jerry Robinson http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/12/jerry-robinson.html?showComment=1324615552055#c4127676358749850686 Interesting blog post about Robinson teaching Ditko… http://blakebellnews.blogspot.com/2011/12/being-punked-by-jerry-robinson-other.html?spref=tw…