The issue wasn’t that they didn’t have enough, but they knew they were directly responsible for making a lot more. Do not doubt: the men who formed Image had, by and large, made a fair bit of money just off royalties paid by Marvel. Employment standards at Marvel have gotten worse, not better. The matters at hand in those heady years of Batman, boom and bust are still at front and center of our industry’s discourse. People still read those interviews because that period of time is generally judged to be a significant one. or at least, those rarified few wont to leaf through old issues of magazines about comic books in their spare time. Up there with the Kevin Eastman interview a couple dozen issues later, in terms of significance. Todd McFarlane gave one of the best interviews in the history of the print Journal, no doubt, but also one of the most adversarial. Certainly, the product on display at the time of the company’s formation found no purchase in these pages. ![]() The initial wave of Image was a movement, a genuine populist uprising in a traditionally hidebound industry. What does that and a nickel get you, at the end of the day? We’ve advanced to discussing that period in the forensic terms of the art historian. So, most interesting artist of the Image founders. Oh, that guy, you say, scratching your chin. ![]() That the most interesting artist of the seven original Image founders was Marc Silvestri. ![]() With deepest gratitude to Claire Napier, without whose friendship this essay could not exist.Īs I wandered along this distant beachhead of life on a discontented eve of sorrow, I was struck by a conviction which has come to dictate a not insubstantial portion of my thoughts.
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