CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART SEVEN OF FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Monday, 20 May 2013

PART SEVEN OF FOOM COVER & IMAGE GALLERY...

Images copyright MARVEL COMICS

Well, here we go with yet another whistle-stop-tour through a couple of issues of FOOM - this time #s 15 & 16, the latter of which features an interview with Mirthful MARIE SEVERIN, sister of JOHN and power-packed penciller, inker, and colourist in her own right.

As you can see, there's not a lot of images from #15, but, truth to tell, some later issues of MARVEL's Magazine for fans don't really have too much that's worth posting (in my opinion), so it's going to be a bit of a mixed bag, contents-wise, in future instalments of this series.

However, as there are only 6 issues to go before you've seen all 22 mags anyway, I'm sure we'll find something of interest to make up a post or three. Keep watching or you might miss something!

7 comments:

TwoHeadedBoy said...: Love those floorplan pictures, any idea who they're by? Looks like something I've seen in MAD Magazine at some point...; 20 May 2013 at 23:42
Kid said...: Looks like Marie Severin's artwork to me, THB.; 21 May 2013 at 00:31
TwoHeadedBoy said...: And a quick bit of research tells me it was her BROTHER who worked on MAD, although she did do stuff for EC.

Talented siblings there!; 21 May 2013 at 00:40
Kid said...: John indeed did work for Mad, but later he became more associated with Cracked, Mad's most successful rival.; 21 May 2013 at 00:43
Comicsfan said...: In hindsight, I probably should have maintained my subscription to Foom magazine, because this is all very interesting to me. And considering Severin's description of the in-house staff--"Stan, Sol, Flo Steinberg and me [were on staff in 1965]. Kirby and all the rest of the growing bullpen worked free lance, as most of them still do now. Nobody was really here nine-to-five, except Stan, Sol, Flo, and myself."--her depiction of a busy and crowded "Bullpen" is certainly indicative of the faux impression of it that Stan wished to cultivate.; 21 May 2013 at 01:07
Anonymous said...: Kid, you've done it again! Good stuff, but seeing Howard on the campaign trail again, as an American I think we made a mistake not electing that duck president, even if he is fictional.; 21 May 2013 at 01:24
Kid said...: Glad you're enjoying this little series, CF. Yeah, there was a day-to-day Bullpen - it just consisted of a different group of players than the one Stan created.

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Anon, I'd vote for Howard if he ever stood for Prime Minister. I'd rather have the Duck up than the 'f*ck-up' we've got now.; 21 May 2013 at 02:16

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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