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Dale Gonsalves
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Has anyone read it yet ?

In between wedding plans and booking hotel room for the honeymoon etc. I read through my copy of Secrets in the Shadows: The Art and Life of Gene Colan.

Now I started reading comic books voraciously in 1983, before that I read them when I got them from my mother, which was regular enough, but in high school with lunch money (most of it went into comics) i could buy whatever I wanted.

I've always been and still am a DC nut, on average I will purchase 35 books (comics and magazines) and out of all of that I get 3 Marvel titles regularly (DD, Black Panther and Captain America) so I only knew Gene Colan from ....

BATMAN

He was doing Batman and then switched over to Detective Comics swapping with Don Newton, so I was getting Newton who I adored and Gene Colan who I didnt outright love at first, but had a serious fascination with. I later realised that he had a long career at Marvel in the late 60s early 70s, but I never really went out of my way to get his earlier work.

I though the two series that he did with Don McGregor was great (Nathinel Dusk I and II)

Saw an interesting conversation that took place between Gary Groth and John Byrne re: Gene Colan, his art and the reason why Shooter was correct in firing him from Marvel in one of the chapters.
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Dale Gonsalves
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oh

and I thinking of picking up the Tomb of Dracula BW Essentials soon.
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Honestly, Colan is considered one of the greats, but his artwork never really appealed to me, at least none of the super-hero stuff.  Tomb of Dracula was much more his style.
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Eric Kleefeld
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Colan's art in The Essential Howard the Duck is great. The Essentials have
been great for appreciation of his work, as you get to see it in black and
white.
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Paul Greer
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Haven't heard of this. Is this a biography or a magazine dealing with Colon's career?
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Anthony J Lombardi
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I bow at the feet of the great one
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Jason Schulman
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Colan's art with Tom Palmer on DOCTOR STRANGE in the late 60s is absolutely stunning. Up there with the Adams/Palmer AVENGERS issues.
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From www.twomorrows.com
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Troy Nunis
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I've long felt Colan's Super-Hero work was weaker compaired to other stuff he was more suited to, ie. Tomb of Dracula, etc . .  .but looking at his early Dr. Strange work in Essentials, it looks really really good -- so perhaps he just suffered from poor inking later on when it seemed too murkey.  But definately a great artist who has inspired many others.
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Gerry Turnbull
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yeah, that interview with JB and Groth was interesting.

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Andrew Kneath
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I like Colan a lot but his style is only really suited to "Night" characters - Daredevil, Batman, Dracula etc.

Although I have not really seen that much of it, I loved his work with Tom Palmer on Daredevil.
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Seeing Colan's pencils online has been a revelation for me, as I said on another thread about 'artisits we have come to like' or someuch title...it is immediately obvious why his inkers struggled to translate his work accurately, since it works with suggestions and shade in a very subtle manner...I think I would agree with many who find his super-hero work less appealing than his work on Dracula, although I do have a soft spot for his Iron Man, which pretty much defined the character for me growing up..and his work was always in b&w for me growing up in Blighty
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