CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH...

Saturday, 23 January 2016

THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH...

Images copyright DC COMICS

JACK KIRBY, great as he was, wasn't always consistent from panel-to-panel, as can be seen above. The woman next to the older man in the first pic is, in the second, suddenly alongside the younger man who was on the other side of the old guy.

This continuity lapse was corrected for reprints over the years, meaning that, unless you own the original ish of NEW GODS #1, you've never seen that panel as Jack originally drew it. A trivial thing to be sure, but I thought you might like to know.

(And in the reprint below, the blank space left by the deleted 'continued' panel hasn't been fully filled in. Tsk, tsk - how careless of them.)

2 comments:

Rip Jagger said...: I never noticed this and I have New Gods #1. Learn something everyday. Speed kills continuity.

Rip Off; 24 January 2016 at 07:16
Kid said...: I noticed years ago, but never thought it was a piece of trivia I'd put to use one day. Thank goodness for blogs, eh?; 24 January 2016 at 12:50

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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