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Brian Rhodes
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That is phenomenal. The cover, alone, would have been quite a find.
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Peter Martin
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I first read this book when I was 11, I think -- a time when I was NUTS about Marvel and just couldn't get enough. I readily took on big John's advice on how to construct a figure.
It's amazing that you have the whole thing all together. What an acquisition!
Edited by Peter Martin on 26 November 2014 at 9:34am
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Roy Johnson
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A great piece of comics history -- that isn't a comic.
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Daniel Gillotte
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Amazing!
I had this book as an aspiring artist and it helped me immensely. Even today when I draw for fun I am often thinking about aspects of Mr. Buscema's lessons. I bought a copy a few years back again and will use it with my daughter as she learns to draw.
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Peter Hicks
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I have loaned this book to many people who wanted to learn how to draw. I tell them to disregard the comics aspects of it, as it is just a great foundation for any sort of drawing.
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Andrew W. Farago
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As comics have gotten more "sophisticated," a lot of them have shifted toward the rejected pages that were used as demonstrations in this book. You know, the pages with very traditional camera angles, relaxed poses, conventional perspective, and emphasizing realism instead of dynamism. I'd like it if more artists today did their first pass on the layouts, then went back and amped everything up, classic Marvel style.
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Aki Himmanen
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JB wrote:
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The description and examples of the "scribble" method had a major impact on me. Not an artist, but whenever I draw (I have to complete a commission for my sister's 40th!), that's more or less how I go about it.
Edited by Aki Himmanen on 26 November 2014 at 4:00pm
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Peter Martin
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I'd like it if more artists today did their first pass on the layouts, then went back and amped everything up, classic Marvel style.--------------------------- This is an element of the book -- perhaps more than any other -- where the emphasis is on how to draw comics the MARVEL way. The hyper-dramatic angles and poses are horses for courses -- perfect for super-hero comics, but not so much for other genres (Big John and Stan never suggest in the book that this is anything other than the Marvel style, of course).
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Andrew W. Farago
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That's a big part of the fun of the book. "This boring layout would be just fine for a book by our Distinguished Competition, but over here at Marvel, we'd throw a guy out the window for trying to pass this off as a real comic book."
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Eric Ladd
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Complete? Wow!
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Bill Sandefur
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I still have my hard cover edition of this book that I've had since 1980/81. I got it for Christmas and it was my favorite gift that year. I read it and reread it, and practiced all the lessons over and over. I still never got good enough to turn pro, but I really enjoyed the process of trying.
Still one of my all-time favorite books. Congratulations on your amazing acquisition.
As a side note: It should be mandatory reading for some of today's so-called "pros". They could learn a lot from a true comic art master like Mr. Buscema. |
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Mark McKay
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Curious, do you think Buscema lightboxed his iterations from the rough layout through to the final pencils? Or maybe he did the rough layout after the fact?
I don't see any of the pencil marks from the rough layout making it into any of the later versions.
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