- Bob Haney Presents: Before Watchmen.
- Frankly, it’s not a complete waste of time, because that’s an amazing look for Medusa.
- Rick Veitch Swamp Thing & Arcane commission – pencils and final inked product.
- Pal Dorian points out a slight resemblance between Kevin Keller in a particular outfit with a certain plastic gentleman of no small amount of fame.
- Pal Andrew has been celebrating High Febrolutionary Month, and this particular example is my favorite so far because of its sheer Gil Kane-ness.
- I meant to link to this forever ago, but I never did…are you quite ready to be blasted by knowledge regarding…CHARLIE BRO?
- You probably heard about Gary Friedrich owing Marvel a good chunk of change after a bit of legal hoohar. If you want to help the guy out, here’s where you can do it.
- I sure read a lot of Cracked when I was a kid…sure, it was a Mad knock-off, but man, it had John Severin in every issue and he was the best. He could do caricatures of famous folks like nobody’s business, and it was genuine cartooning, not just tracings of publicity stills. And more recently, on that Witchfinder series he did for Dark Horse, I’d keep showing it to people and saying “the guy who drew this is nearly 90 years old, and just look at it…it’s amazing!”
John Severin passed away recently at the age of 90. So long, John…you were one swell artist.
I interviewed at Cracked years ago, as a staff writer. Sadly, the magazine folded shortly thereafter. Er… I make no connection whatsoever between those two statements.
One thing I remember about Cracked from when I was a kid (mid-70s) is that they were shameless about mash-ups: Star Wars is popular, Dukes of Hazzard is popular, ergo “Star Wars Meets Dukes of Hazzard”!!!
I’m wondering if they did a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover that you were speculating we’d see. Why wouldn’t they?
Capt. Spaulding – Actually, they did! It was their “Star Wars 2” parody (long before EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) that ended with Kirk and Spock showing up in the last panel, if I recall correctly. Also by Severin, again, if I recall correctly!
I meant explicitly billed as “Star Wars Meets Star Trek” like the other shameless mash-ups where the Fonz would fight King Kong or whoever.
I remember a Close Encounters Meets Star Wars (also, probably, by Severin) where two minutes after the end of CE, Dreyfuss learns that the ship is piloted by the gang from Star Wars who need his help. The only thing I remember is that they sneak onto Vader’s ship Trojan-horse-style dressed as giant chocolates.
Any merit Cracked had was almost entirely Severin (and Bill Ward Nanny Dickering).
I also remember one of my first exposures to nerd rage was a letter to Cracked complaining that they were cheapening Star Wars by constantly doing parodies of it.