Comments on: Goodbye Creig Flessel

By: Ger Apeldoorn

Ger Apeldoorn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:31:16 +0000

You are right. I have even seen his name on some of the unprinted stories in the big DC Implosion photocopy books (now available through download, although in pretty bad shape). But I have also seen Flessel’s plseudo Davis style from the late sixties somewhere in on eof the Mad imitators. I will have to dig for that.

By: BobH

BobH — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:54 +0000

Yeah, Flessel inked Grandenetti on at least PREZ #4 and FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL #10 (introducing the Outsiders) for Simon’s stint at DC in the mid-1970s.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:06:36 +0000

I asked Joe if Flessel did any Sick work but it sounded from Joe’s reply that he may not have. But Joe did say that he used Creig for inking Grandenetti’s pencils. That would be during Joe’s DC period on comics like the Prez. I have also seen some beautiful romance art from that period that I think owes most of its quality to Flessel’s inking.

Harry

By: Ger Apeldoorn

Ger Apeldoorn — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:58:30 +0000

Hi,

I never knew Flessel was ‘part of Joe’s crew’ at any period. Because he is mentioned together with George Tuska, my guess would be that was in the Sick period. Flessel started to branch out from the previously safe and well paying job at Johnstone and Cushing then. But I never recognized any of his work at Sick. I should have another look. Flessel did sometimes adopt a mock Jack Davis style when he was doing ‘funny’ work in the sixties and seventies. Maybe that could be a clue.