Because of this, there won't be a full Gone&Forgotten this week, so in the interim I bring you this exceptionally accurate two-page depiction of the life of a comic artist, from Marvel's classic inside-baseball parody mag Not Brand Echh...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Artists Alley, Table D-15, you'll be checked for weapons at the door ...
It's the Emerald City Comicon this weekend, and Your Humble Editor has been busy stitching up the moth-eaten holes and washing out the bloodstains on his best Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes for his first event appearance in many a moon.
Because of this, there won't be a full Gone&Forgotten this week, so in the interim I bring you this exceptionally accurate two-page depiction of the life of a comic artist, from Marvel's classic inside-baseball parody mag Not Brand Echh...
Because of this, there won't be a full Gone&Forgotten this week, so in the interim I bring you this exceptionally accurate two-page depiction of the life of a comic artist, from Marvel's classic inside-baseball parody mag Not Brand Echh...
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...Yikes. Funny, but also dispiriting as heck.
The image in panel two splashes about in the mud of my memories, as if it's a parody of some other artist's iconic self-portrait--in fact, I know it is, I can remember the artist in the original is holding a pipe to his mouth with that right hand--but I'm damned if I can place it.
NO SLEEP FOR ME TONIGHT
I was under the impression that it was a parody of the Norman Rockwell "Looking for a few good artists" ad for the Famous Artists School that was popular on the backs of comics at the time ...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3591990934_8463631fc3_z.jpg?zz=1
BUt, looking at it, no it's probably not...
Is this Will Eisner? Because now I'd swear the image I'm thinking of is Eisner's work. If it's not a self-portrait, then perhaps a character in one of his Spirit stories...
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