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Andrew Bitner
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JB, if you could go back in time (any year) and be hired on as the artist or artist/writer to get one character or team started, who (or what) would it be? Similarly, is there any writer or artist, living or dead, with whom you always wanted to work but never had the opportunity?
Edited by Andrew Bitner on 11 January 2013 at 9:00am
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John Byrne
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(a) If my present day self could ink the first thirty-odd issues of FANTASTIC FOUR (skipping 5 and departing when Sinnott returned) I would not be unhappy!(b) Joe Kubert.
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Andrew Bitner
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cool! thanks!
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Andrew Bitner
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makes me wonder what it would look like, your inks over jack kirby. *that* would be a powerhouse team-up.
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Brian Miller
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That happened in FF 236.
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Andrew Bitner
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thanks, brian! man oh man, totally slipped my mind. now i'm imagining JB inking the galactus saga... =woo!=
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John Byrne
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The John Byrne who inked Kirby in FF 236 was not the present iteration, nor was Kirby the same artist who illustrated those first thirty or so issues of the magazine.
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Brad Brickley
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The amazing thing about Joe Kubert to me is the man was better at 85 than he was as a young man. Not many artist look better at the end than as a younger man.
My two sketches I have from the last five years before his death are fantastic. Just wonderful. The comics he drew were still powerful. Just a great artist to the end.
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Aaron Smith
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When I read BATMAN/ CAPTAIN AMERICA, I found myself wishing that JB and Joe Kubert could do a Captain America/ Sgt. Rock team-up, maybe a miniseries where they'd co-write and alternate between the penciling and inking parts of the job.
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Shaun Barry
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It's really too bad about those Dick Ayers inks... I want so much to love the art is those early FF issues. You can still make out the dynamics of Kirby, of course, but the inking is just so sloppy-looking... But once Joe Sinnott kicks back in... look out!
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David Plunkert
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It's really too bad about those Dick Ayers inks... I want so much to love the art is those early FF issues. You can still make out the dynamics of Kirby, of course, but the inking is just so sloppy-looking...
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Obviously one's milage will vary....I consider Dick Ayers and Chic Stone great Kirby inkers.
If anything FF inking before Sinnott suffers from the inconsistency of many hands (Rule, Sinnott, Ayers, Wood, Roussos, Stone, Colletta) but there was solid good stuff in there amongst the rushed.
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Peter Martin
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Really interesting answer. JB's inks over those first 30 FF issues is a tantalising thought.
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