Comics Artists: An Accidental Rediscovery

[dewline]

I didn't know until today that Herb Trimpe has a website now.

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[dewline.livejournal.com]

So, do we credit/blame Trimpe as one of Liefeld's influences?

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

I would, but then I'm a bad, bad person.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Anyone else want to weigh in here? Not on Lee's "bad/good person" status(we'll leave that to Lee's own LJ), but on the Trimpe/Liefeld angle.

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

I don't know where Liefeld got his influences from.

But I do know in the 90s an editor told Trimpe to make his art look more like Liefelds, telling him it would boost sales on the book and make him more popular.

He tried. To say the results looked horrible would be an understatement. His career as a comic artist was effectively killed.

He then became a teacher and now he's writing.

Oh and thanks for pointing this out Dwight, I'm now interviewing Herb Trimpe for next issues CollectorTimes.com :)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Glad to be able to help, Jamie.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can think of far better ways to depress myself than to ask THAT question on my blog :)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

We've now settled that question...and I'm not sure we want additional excuses for depression. Especially after today's Bad Signal installment.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

There was a Bad Signal today?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

In my inbox at GMail today, as of half an hour ago.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

Ah, the one called "So. Tired."? Got it late for some reason...