Redartz: Good day, everyone! Last week I mentioned a followup to the story about meeting heroes. Well......the dreaded deadline doom caught up with me (sorry Edo!). For today, once again the onus is upon you to pull a discussion topic from your fevered thoughts. As to next week, stay tuned for a discussion about meeting heroes and meeting friends, long drives and long lines, and plenty of fun...
Redartz: Hello again; back at the keyboard after a week away visiting in Arizona. Had the pleasure of spending time with my youngest son and his family, and the additional pleasure of taking my grandson to his first comic shop (he's only a year old, but he was all smiles).
As if that wasn't great enough, I found an unanticipated treasure there: a 1986 first printing of Will Eisner's semi-autobiographical graphic novel "The Dreamer". On the shelf for little over cover price. And who'd believe it, when I opened it there was a signed bookplate by the comics giant himself!
Will Eisner was an idol of mine, right up there with Stan and Jack. Regretfully I never had the opportunity to meet the man, but stumbling across a signed book is a pretty fine consolation. Have any of you had the experience of meeting one of your true heroes, or acquired a memento of one? Oh, and a bit more on this subject next week...
Ok, story time's over for now. Time for you to posit a topic for the day; let the discussion begin!
Redartz: Hi folks! Here it is, another Tuesday at BitBa, and you know what that means. Another opportunity for you to set the topic, start the discussion. frame the agenda! First come, first serve; operators are standing by!
Oh, and here's another little tidbit for you to chew on. Last weekend I bought a stack of vintage comics at an estate auction; many of them were late 60's-early 70's Archie books. While going through and researching them, I discovered that several had stories inked by Marvel's own Joltin' Joe Sinnott. It seems he worked on numerous Archie titles between 1969 and 1974. Below are a few pages from "Reggie and Me" 53 (Jan. 1972); with Sinnott inking stellar Archie penciller Al Hartley. Looks like Joe's talent shows on humor as well...
