Neal Adams Biographical Interview by Alex Grand and Bill Field 2018

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Today's episode features a very special interview with comic book writer, artist, and the legend Neal Adams. Co-Founder of Continuity Studios. Comic book lovers, don't miss the interviews...Alex Grand and Bill Field interview the chief comic book illustrator himself, Neal Adams. We discuss his life and times starting when he graduated from the School of
Industrial Art in 1959, his news strip and advertising work in the early 60s, his late 60s Superhero books, through the 70s with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and Superman Muhammad Ali, through his Continuity era during the 1980s and beyond. Who was Green Lantern and Green Arrow based on? Was Christopher Reeve his favorite Superman? How did Neal get his start?
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Video chapters
00:00 Neal Adams’s first comic art
00:51 Working with Howard Nostrand?
02:19 Bat Masterson to Ben Casey | Johnstone and Cushing
05:53 Advertising design, strips & illustration
07:00 Getting into DC comics | Carmine Infantino
10:05 Tales of the Green Beret by Kubert
11:54 The golden era came as a result of what I did
14:23 Green Lantern/Green Arrow | relevant comic books
19:03 Green Lantern/Green Arrow sales
21:57 Green Lantern/Green Arrow vs Steve Ditko’s Hawk and Dove
22:38 Restore Batman’s roots
25:59 Jim Steranko vs Neal Adams
27:50 Getting Siegel and Shuster credit
29:34 Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
32:29 Christopher Reeve as Superman
32:56 Continuity Comics, how it came to be?
35:57 Working in Advertising again
37:44 Artists need to diversify opportunities
39:12 Wrapping Up
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[@dukefl]

Neal was and still is in a dimension that only he inhabited as an artist and visionary....no one came or comes close to him. whereas most artist have an established vocabulary of poses and ways to do things Neal Adams was beyond all that. He always came up with new ways to express himself. For example Byrne, Buscema and Kirby had their standardized poses.....Neal never did. Always came up with new, fluid ways to draw a scene. A true Master whose legacy will inspire and live on forever. RIP Neal. You achieved far more than most can even imagine.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

Legend for life

[@Catweazled]

Rest in Peace maestro. magnificent legacy.

[@creme8338]

he's got a healthy ego, but if anyone's allowed to have one, it's neal. what a master.

[@mesolithicman164]

I think it's unbecoming. When you have all his achievements you don't really need to tell everyone.

[@floepiejane]

​@@mesolithicman164 yeah, playing coy is so much more chic.

[@mesolithicman164]

@@floepiejane Here's a lesson for you. Being modest is a state of mind, it's not a performance. But I think you've indicated exactly the kind of person you are. Buffoon.

[@floepiejane]

@@mesolithicman164 mansplaining so becomes you. Is that a whiff of sanctimony I smell? New cologne?

[@mesolithicman164]

@@floepiejane Jack Kirby was the humblest guy in the Universe. John Romita Sr and Joe Kubert, fantastic, talented and modest. But no one's allowed to comment on Neal Adam's inflated sense of self? I don't think there's any sanctimony in that, or in saying that modesty is a state of mind not something that you fake. Surprising that you can't understand those relatively simple ideas.

[@angelmanfredy]

He deserved to live longer, but man what a life well lived.

[@SuddenlyComics]

Great interview with a comic legend - good job in getting Neal's ego in the room !

[@jessepearson557]

Fantastic interview with a legend!

[@jessepearson557]

Rewatched this amazing interview again today - thank you again for posting this incredible interview with the legend - so sad he is gone now but his work will live forever! 😁🙏❤️

[@ComicBookHistorians]

Thanks Jesse! It was definitely a moment of history and connection.

[@AndrewReevesArt]

Absolute legend. Continuity Comics informed Image, McFarland Toys and so many great indie successes. RIP Neil. 💔

[@christophertomasello1227]

Neil Adams was at a comic book convention in San Francisco in 1975. Unfortunately I missed him somehow. I always regretted that. This interview kind of helps make up for it - thank you

[@ihategoogle6066]

lol Neal throwing shade @6:59

[@KandorArchives]

Love Neal. Thank you for this.

[@PeterPalmiotti]

Great interview. Neal is always a trip.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

I was more ofa devotee of his BATMAN and Sword and sorcery work, which was always wonderful! REST WELL, NEAL and THANK YOU!

[@AComicBookworm]

Fantastic interview, Bill! Great meeting you through TheGreyMan and Kyle! Take care and Happy New Year!

[@supernova1969]

Thank you for this excellent video. What a great man! What a great career! The greatest artist!

[@jimsantiago6017]

Laughed many times during this interview. Wished I’d of come across this b4 his death. He is so refreshing. I met him about 10 years ago in Red Bank, New Jersey. Very nice guy… enjoyed my time with him very much. Thanks for work Neal. Thanks to CBH for posting.

[@johnminehan1148]

Neal Adams, of blessed memory, requiescat in pace . . . .

[@demetriusdillard2863]

R.I.P. Neal Adams. He will definitely be missed. All in all, this was a highly entertaining interview.

[@Crazecollector]

Thank you

[@billpliske]

I love Neal's work ... he's always been my clear favorite. But RIP ... the dude is clearly the opposite of humble. It's off-putting to always be praising himself so much ... and not needed! Everyone LOVES this guy's work, and we praise him often. I just never understood his attitude on this. Oh well. There will never be another one like him. The best.

[@mesolithicman164]

Jack Kirby was always humble. It befits a true legend better than someone blowing their own trumpet and trying to diminish people like Carmine Infantino. In another video he mocks how another inker, a Japanese, said "bwush". Not just once, he keeps repeating it. I think there was a side of Neal Adams that was not likeable.

[@scottvandenboogart5390]

Holy Cr#p Bat-Man, Neal looked just like 1970s teen idol Bobby Sherman at the 28:55 mark in this video! GREAT VIDEO BTW!

[@melbea03]

I became aware of Neal Adams with the reprints of his work on the X-Men

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

Adams had the right attitude towards conflict. More litigators should think that way.

[@noahvansciver5661]

I love this channel!

[@ComicBookHistorians]

Thanks Noah!

[@fadbinger]

I really wanted a full view of that poster behind Neal.😢

[@johnminehan1148]

Wrightson was a good inker for him . . . .

[@rbiznezz2]

One of the all time greats. Rest well king. What kind of mics did you use for this interview?

[@johnminehan1148]

This is interesting. John Broome's GL was probably closer to Denny O'Neil's GA. I wonder how much O'Neil's GL was based on having GA and GL being different and how much it was based on O'Neil not getting the character (despite writing it).

[@garywright3523]

To clarify the Cavill moustache, it was the Mission Impossible producers/studio that kiboshed the razor.

[@ComicBookHistorians]

It was Joss Whedon’s decision to film that scene

[@T.R.R.Jolkien]

He sure loves his work, just like the rest of us… 🧐

[@StruggleoftheOutsider]

Great guy.. Rest in Peace.. but idk.. I've seen those old Batman comics from the 40's and 50's when I was a lil kid...but I don't remember ever shaking in my Jordans... so I'm never fully clear what these guys are talking bout.

[@ComicBookHistorians]

The adult themed ones are pre-1942. Look at Batman #1 1940 and read the first appearance of Joker. Amazing

[@writerartist6306]

Miss his unapologetic honesty 😂

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

GL/GA and New Gods tended to "fall off the trucks."

[@artdingo]

Neal Adams has done well for himself and for other cartoonists. A fine bit of comics history. His thoughts of himself as a fighter, as a boxer was pretty funny.. Neal even at his best couldn't be a boxer. Stick to drawing Neal.

[@RainyDayBlue8]

Dude in the back creeps me out

[@LoreLord-]

Why that guy soo angry next to him lol

[@mediaguy6891]

good interview but Neal is to sure of himself, the others are bad, I‘m the best. not very sympathetic....

[@mesolithicman164]

He was a great artist but I find his lack of modesty quite unappealing. And I wish he'd have occasionally washed that blue shirt.