Today's Meskin contribution is an odd one. First of all, it is in black and white since that is the only format that it is available in at the Digital Comics Museum I use for most of my comic book scans. In fact, I see that they don't have some of the later issues which I myself just sold before scanning them - I wish I had. Anyway, The Changeling is something of a mixed collaboration, probably featuring Mort Meskin. The Grand Comics Database says the inking is by Meskin and Harry Mendrick's Black Magic checklist does not mention meskin but says George Roussos did the pencilling. I see none of Roussos' typical faces and no inking by Meskin - but I do see Meskin in the underlying pencils and suspect Bill Draut was involved in the inking and finishing up.
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Monday, October 09, 2017
Not What It Seems
Sunday Meskin Measures.
Today's Meskin contribution is an odd one. First of all, it is in black and white since that is the only format that it is available in at the Digital Comics Museum I use for most of my comic book scans. In fact, I see that they don't have some of the later issues which I myself just sold before scanning them - I wish I had. Anyway, The Changeling is something of a mixed collaboration, probably featuring Mort Meskin. The Grand Comics Database says the inking is by Meskin and Harry Mendrick's Black Magic checklist does not mention meskin but says George Roussos did the pencilling. I see none of Roussos' typical faces and no inking by Meskin - but I do see Meskin in the underlying pencils and suspect Bill Draut was involved in the inking and finishing up.
Today's Meskin contribution is an odd one. First of all, it is in black and white since that is the only format that it is available in at the Digital Comics Museum I use for most of my comic book scans. In fact, I see that they don't have some of the later issues which I myself just sold before scanning them - I wish I had. Anyway, The Changeling is something of a mixed collaboration, probably featuring Mort Meskin. The Grand Comics Database says the inking is by Meskin and Harry Mendrick's Black Magic checklist does not mention meskin but says George Roussos did the pencilling. I see none of Roussos' typical faces and no inking by Meskin - but I do see Meskin in the underlying pencils and suspect Bill Draut was involved in the inking and finishing up.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Valentine's Stunt
Friday Comic Book Day.
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a couple of romance storie by the underrated Bill Draut. For the real fans I have included one of his earliest comic book stories from Harvey's Stuntman #1.
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a couple of romance storie by the underrated Bill Draut. For the real fans I have included one of his earliest comic book stories from Harvey's Stuntman #1.
Friday, January 31, 2014
No Draut About It
Thursday Story Strip Day.
From the same paper as the Paul Norris illustrations I got several samples of Sargeant Stony Craig. A marine comic strip that seems to have run from late late thirties, so evenbefore the Second World War. Hete are a couple of scattered samples from early 1945, together with the first week of Bill Draut. He did the strip after leaving the army himself until somewhere in 1946. I have some samples of his work for army papers and even there he had adopted a faux Caniff style. Later on, he would become one of the more succesful and prominent Caniff style practitioners in comic books, mostly for companies such as Prize and Mainline, ofteen for or in the company of Jack Kirby. In the late fifties he moved to DC, where his style became more mainstream. he ended up losing most of the (interesting) Caniff touches while doing romance books for DC and later even Marvel. His development as an artist is the most typical example of a young artist influenced by Caniff ending up in what could be called mainstream American realism of the seventies - before it got blown away by the more showy art of Neal Adams and those more like him.
Here is the first week of his version of Stoney Craig and an interesting article about Draut and the strip from two months into his run.
I hope te be showing more.
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From the same paper as the Paul Norris illustrations I got several samples of Sargeant Stony Craig. A marine comic strip that seems to have run from late late thirties, so evenbefore the Second World War. Hete are a couple of scattered samples from early 1945, together with the first week of Bill Draut. He did the strip after leaving the army himself until somewhere in 1946. I have some samples of his work for army papers and even there he had adopted a faux Caniff style. Later on, he would become one of the more succesful and prominent Caniff style practitioners in comic books, mostly for companies such as Prize and Mainline, ofteen for or in the company of Jack Kirby. In the late fifties he moved to DC, where his style became more mainstream. he ended up losing most of the (interesting) Caniff touches while doing romance books for DC and later even Marvel. His development as an artist is the most typical example of a young artist influenced by Caniff ending up in what could be called mainstream American realism of the seventies - before it got blown away by the more showy art of Neal Adams and those more like him.
Here is the first week of his version of Stoney Craig and an interesting article about Draut and the strip from two months into his run.
I hope te be showing more.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Mort Meeskeen
Sunday Meskin Measures.
The next installment in this littlerun of stories Mort Meskin did for Prize Comics Western in the mid fifties, is one of a few stories he did with Bill Draut. Like Meskin, Draut was an alumnus from the Simon/Kirby studios and their styles fit very well together. Since Meskin could do the whole job himself, it is not clear why he (or the editor) farmed this one out. It looks to me as if the two really worked togter here, with Meskin pencilling and Bill Draut inking and possibly adding to the pencils where necessary. The resut is a much slicker Meskin job than some of his others. With the added pleasure of it being unreadable because of the pidgin Spanish the hero of the story uses...
The next installment in this littlerun of stories Mort Meskin did for Prize Comics Western in the mid fifties, is one of a few stories he did with Bill Draut. Like Meskin, Draut was an alumnus from the Simon/Kirby studios and their styles fit very well together. Since Meskin could do the whole job himself, it is not clear why he (or the editor) farmed this one out. It looks to me as if the two really worked togter here, with Meskin pencilling and Bill Draut inking and possibly adding to the pencils where necessary. The resut is a much slicker Meskin job than some of his others. With the added pleasure of it being unreadable because of the pidgin Spanish the hero of the story uses...
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