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Thanks for the review, Harry. I’m really looking forward to getting a copy of this. I agree with you about the size of the book.
Here’s a link folks can use to buy the book through Amazon, where Amazon will provide a percentage of the purchase price to the Kirby Museum: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401225934/ref=nosim?tag=jackkirbywebl-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=1401225934&creative=373489&camp=211189.
Looks like this one should be out in stores this week, looking forward to seeing it. Glad to hear you had a part in the covers, and that they’re improving as they go along on the interior restoration.
For the Amazon affiliate account by the way, I’m still tweaking it but I’ve added some Kirby items to this “astore”, which will have all the affiliate code if you order them from the links:
http://astore.amazon.com/jackkirbywebl-20
In particular this subpage will have any S&K books
http://astore.amazon.com/jackkirbywebl-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=20
there was no excuse at all for the terrible ‘sandman’ book. It was not welldone and it’s just being cheap not to do whatever it takes to make it look like new. I don’t want cheap scans of old yellowing comic books with a little recoloring of word balloons. that’s ok if you charge me ten bucks I guess. Marvel is right , the older D.C. archives looked GREAT. then came the monstrosities “starman volume 2″, and simon and kirby sandman” these looked like a good example of a sad excuse for publishing. D.C. needs to go back to the older way they published archives; like the great first volume of golden age sandman! now that looks great , if they can’t do it like that anymore then they shouldn’t even bother.
Mike,
Obvious we are coming from different view points. If you say that Marvel is right, then you really do not care about the actual artists who created the original work. I am much happier with scans then reconstructed art. Fortunately only Marvel continues that sad practice. You are unhappy with DC’s approach but with a rare exception (Daring Mystery vol 2) I stopped buying Marvel archives some time ago. And even in the case of Daring Mystery v. 2 I only bought it with reluctance.
I worked on many Marvel books and never traced anyhthing.
Chris,
Nowhere in my post did I mention anything about tracing. That is only one of the reconstruction methods used for Marvel archives. It is the whole reconstruction approach that I consider outdated. Only Marvel continues those practices. I prefer the original artists work to what amounts to a re-interpretation by modern artists. Therefore I have for the most part stopped buying Marvel reprint volumes. Recently I made an exception for Daring Mystery vol. 2 and found the reconstruction pretty accurate but still a re-interpretation. I reported on it in //kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2641.
If its not tracing you object to – what exactly do you object to?
Chris,
Oh please, you know very well what I object to. We have discussed this on the Marvel Masterworks list. I object to anything but completely accurate restoration of the line art. Every Masterwork volume that I have check with the original comics all had inaccuracies. You were part of the discussion where my restoration of a splash from a Vision story was compared to Marvel’s. As I keep repeating I am not interested in getting a modern artists re-interpretation of the original artist’s work. Scanning and printing technology have improved to the point where accurate scans can be published and Marvel’s method can be called out-dated.
Well Harry, say what you want – but I don’t know how you can argue with Marvel reprinting material from original film rather than from scans of books.
Chris,
There you go again, we have covered this in our previous discussions. Of course there is nothing better than good stats, original art or original film. But Marvel has very little of that for pre-Silver Age or even most early Silver Age material. Perhaps their policy has changed, but none of the Marvel reprint volumes that I have say what is based on such material and what was reconstructed.
Yes, and I believe I have corrected you several times, but I’ll give it another try. Cory Sedlemeier took on the project of sorting through Marvel film stored in three locations. In the process, he discovered almost all original film for the Silver Age and earlier.
That’s not to say old issues of Masterworks from years ago were not redrawn or traced – some Golden Age certainly where, both at DC and Marvel in the early stages of these reprint lines.
Take it from me – Marvel is not paying enough to hire an artist to redraw 220 pages of Tales to Astonish. Before the best film was found, guys like me would retouch reprint film from Monsters on the Prowl, etc.
I did a few full Theakstonizing stories when the film was too weak, but I had to drag approval out of Marvel – these books don’t sell more than a few thousand copies, as I’m sure you are now aware. Even at that higher page rate which comes to around $10 an hour, every book would be deep in the red.
Chris,
If that were true why is it that every pre-Silver age Masterwork volume that I compared closely with the original comics showed inaccuracies. See my recent post about the recently released Daring Mystery vol 2. The amount of work published by Marvel using original film seems to be greatly exaggerated.
Yes early DC reprints used reconstructed art just like Marvel, but they have abandoned that technique for a more accurate approach. I do not expect Marvel to do the same but I am not going to be buying Masterworks until I can be absolutely sure that I am getting the original artists and not what amounts to a reinterpretation by a modern artist.