It became harder and harder for Chapman to see the positive side of the Korean war.
Showing posts with label Werner Roth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Werner Roth. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
War Is Hell (But Necessary) 11
Chapter 11
It became harder and harder for Chapman to see the positive side of the Korean war.
It became harder and harder for Chapman to see the positive side of the Korean war.
Saturday, July 25, 2015
War Is Hell (But Necessary) 7
Chapter 7
Russ Heath.
George Tuska.
Werner Roth.
Joe Sinnott.
Paul Reinman.
Robert Sale.
Dave Berg.
Bernie Krigstein.
Syd Shores.
Sam Kweskin.
And (probably) Mort Meskin.
If you follow the link you will find more from each of these artists.
Yesterday I looked in some more detail at the story Truck Convoy. What this story shows, is not only Chapman's grim pessimism
about the war. It is also extremely well told. I don't know if Chapman saw or
read Harvey Kurtzman's war comics. But his use of sequential panels with little
more than sound effects is similar and disproves the numerous claims that this
device as unique to Kurtzman and that he was the only one using it. Of course,
one could try to argue that it was not Chapman doing this, the he was merely
the writer. Harvey Kurtzman sketched his lay-out and his artists followed them
meticuously. Hank Chapman merely worked with a typewriter.
He did this sort of tiers with Joe Maneely.
Russ Heath.
George Tuska.
Werner Roth.
Joe Sinnott.
Paul Reinman.
Robert Sale.
Dave Berg.
Bernie Krigstein.
Syd Shores.
And (probably) Mort Meskin.
If you follow the link you will find more from each of these artists.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Crop of the Creme
Friday Comic Book Day.
Common knowledge has it that Stan Lee wrote all of the stories in Menace because he wanted a book of his own. If that is true, these three stories from Marvel Tales #113 may have been the impetus. They are from the same creative period with job numbers slightly before those of Menace. And as with those titles, he only used the best artists for himself: here he works with Mike Sekowsky, Werner Roth and Russ Heath.
Common knowledge has it that Stan Lee wrote all of the stories in Menace because he wanted a book of his own. If that is true, these three stories from Marvel Tales #113 may have been the impetus. They are from the same creative period with job numbers slightly before those of Menace. And as with those titles, he only used the best artists for himself: here he works with Mike Sekowsky, Werner Roth and Russ Heath.
Saturday, September 07, 2013
Romancing the Style
Friday Comic Book Day.
For some years in the early forties, somewhere between the bullpen days of the late fifties and the production line rushjobs of the late fifties, the Marvel (or rather Timely) romance books used most of their regular artists for often surprising results. Here are some of the big names moonlighting in romance. I have added an early story by J. Scott Pike, because his early style was so much more impressive than his later work and because of the name of his protagonist.
For some years in the early forties, somewhere between the bullpen days of the late fifties and the production line rushjobs of the late fifties, the Marvel (or rather Timely) romance books used most of their regular artists for often surprising results. Here are some of the big names moonlighting in romance. I have added an early story by J. Scott Pike, because his early style was so much more impressive than his later work and because of the name of his protagonist.
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