Alex Raymond INVENTED The SUPERHERO Aesthetic!

[@joeanderson9045]

Man, I love it when you guys have Warren on the show, he is like a national treasure. Please pass along our thanks to him for being gracious enough for sharing his incredible collection with the community.

[@abh623]

"He is like a national treasure..." So very true!

[@pretorious700]

I'm good friends with Alex Raymonds' daughter Judy. She has an unbelievable collection of his work.

[@kerektor]

Is she the one in the photo, one wonders?

[@fuzmanchu]

yeah Alex Raymond is the king of 'm all. I don't know anybody who does that classic comic brush line look better than he did in later life.

[@SeanWickett]

That plate of the guy with the revolver, I used to have a T-shirt with that image printed on it. Surely pirated, as the signature was removed. I didn't know it was Raymond's art at the time, but I was so attracted to the art, I had to have it. Raymond's work is just so good, even if he lifted from someone else. Illustrative comic art is so much finer than what passes for superhero art today.

[@peterm.fitzpatrick7735]

Alex Raymond. A mystery in itself.

[@XAVIERCUERVO]

i love it when uncle Warren visits

[@Rob.S-]

I just watched the one when you were at Warren's house last night. Weird

[@thisisowen]

Love the old Phillip Morris ad at 16:50 😂

[@warrensmith6214]

I've been hit with a strike by IG for a Big Little Book featuring Flash Gordon!! Censorship sucks.

[@JeetHeer1]

Great episode -- really covered a lot of ground. I especially like the point about the change of Raymond's approach in early years towards a more cinematic style. The early strips aren't so much like theater as they are of illustrated books (I think Frank Boothe and Howard Pyle were influences). As in illustrated books, each panel was a singular frozen moment. the move to cinematic stuff was surely influenced by Crane and Caniff. On the question at point 25:0) -- yeah, some syndicates (particularly I think NEA) sold package deals (which is why they had a diversity of strips -- domestic, kids, sci-fi, crime, sports -- so the package could work for any paper). A lot of small town papers bought the package as an easy way to get a bunch of strips that appeal to lot of people. But the bigger papers didn't need to do that, they could buy from a bunch of different syndicates. The two people who would know about this are Tom DeHaven (who wrote a novel about a syndicate comics salesman!) and Rick Marschall.

[@猪武者]

this artist is so good I can't believe it

[@TerryParr]

Oh what an amazing episode. I love Alex Raymonds artwork so much... please bring Warren back with some more stuff.

[@theswan1852]

9:00 Sheldon Moldoff was the first Hawkman artist. He was an imitator and copied Raymond's style. You'll remember he later had to dumb it down to draw Batman in Bob Kane's style.

[@toddtyler4499]

I love these videos when Warren Bernard stops by! I am still on a buzz from a visit a couple of weeks ago to both Small Press Expo (thanks Uncle Warren) and Baltimore Comic Con. I have to come up for air from reading all my new books to watch Cartoonist Kayfabe!

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

Always appreciate the episodes with Uncle Warren. I always learn a lot. Keep ‘em coming!

[@carcaroth]

Fun fact: in Brazil, X-9 became synonym for snitch because of the Secret Agent X-9 strip :D

[@kerektor]

Another fun fact: in Sweden, X9 gave the name to the longest running detective comics anthology monthly. comic. It had stuff like Corrigan by Williamson, Kirby by Raymond (and Prentice/Dickenson) and Modesty Blaise (especially the ones drawn by the incredible Jim Holdaway). It would be interesting, by the way, to see Cartoonist Kayfabe dive into some European action/adventure comics of yore at one point. Several incredible artists well worth looking into that might be fairly unknown in the US.

[@dwaynemuth8775]

Before I got into comics I read comic strips and always love a deep dive especially in B&W early to mid 20th century Warren never disappoints!👍🎯 Craftsmanship of brushwork and spotting of black is amazing! And the color pops 80+ years later! Thanks 😎! Keep reading and making comix!👋

[@robertmckay2274]

PS please disambiguate "nightingale line" cool phrase but idiosyncratic and not searchable.

[@jeffhotchkiss]

Found it: falsemachine.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-review-of-strange-death-of-alex.html. First paragraph under "The Useful Part"

[@buckysinister]

Man... The Flash Gordon stuff is great, but those Rip Kirby strips are amazing. I was especially fascinated by those strips they're looking at around the 24-minute mark. I can see a lot of the figure and face work from that in David Lapham's stuff.

[@donaldsmith6814]

Quick mention; Raymond served as a combat artist in WW-11, in the Marine Corps. Semper Fi! Brother Marine!

[@c.a.t.732]

What is a "combat artist"?

[@kirtburdick]

Amazing!

[@jimfern802]

A lag in your day. Well put

[@jimhallsun]

Wow those final plates throw a Sin City vibe from Miller

[@kerektor]

HOLY SHIT! That promo Rip Kirby folder, oof! Pity that the IDW reprints were lacking in clarity, imo. There MUST be better source material.

[@andersbrnserud6692]

Great one! I'm surprised that you don't mention 'Sin City' when you show off those last plates, the lady especially ;-)

[@terribled]

You should review John Byrne's OMAC mini from 1991.

[@ottobulut]

I give up. What is a nightingale. It's un-google-able.

[@jeffhotchkiss]

Found it: falsemachine.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-review-of-strange-death-of-alex.html. First paragraph under "The Useful Part"

[@Aginor27]

It's too bad that those IDW/LOAC books of his stuff are out of print

[@xrisfractal]

Amazing!