These comic book creators SLAP (Podcast)

[@Jokesama]

Great episode. Now we need someone to make a blueprint of this museum.

[@ShatteredTrousers]

"Comic books is a beautiful tapestry of art made by many different people." Mood, Joel. Big mood. 😀

[@CapedJoel]

thank you :)

[@Togaman4b]

Completely agree that Bill Finger needs the respect

[@cubencis]

Watched live. Commenting for the algorithm

[@JimmiMiller1]

Putting notifications on for this channel, I actually feel terrrrblleeee that I missed this ,

[@ericturczynowsky3243]

This was one of my favorite EE episodes...really eye opening conversation about comic creators influence on the industry as a whole, and I would love to see an episode for Editor HoF/Mt Rushmore

[@michaelthethird702]

I think that the Mt. Rushmore of comics should include: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, and Garner Fox. I feel like Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Marv Wolfman could be alternates or a second monument.

[@crisis98]

I'd have Simon or Schuster, Lee, Kirby, and Moore. I feel bad about leaving Eisner off, but I just can't bring myself to cut someone from this list. It's the people that created the superhero genre and the people that modernized it.

[@MrPink-qf1xi]

Will Eisner Stan Lee Jack Kirby Alan Moore (I am perfectly sure about the first 3 but I can't find anyone else to put in here other than Moore) These would be my 4, their work is always great and always will be. They are the most influential and iconic ones. I think you have to put both Lee nad Kirby on here cause both did a lot of work in their fields, Kirby maybe worked more but Lee was the representative of comicbooks for everone outside of comics, today everone is familiar with his face and I believe he earned it, he was always a beacon of positivity and joy. Without even one of these 4 I think comicbook industry and everything about it or connected to it would not be the same.

[@MCLegoboy]

As I was listening to you guys talk when this was originally on the main channel, it sounded more like it would less be a Mt. Rushmore and more an Age of Ultron Credits CG Marble Sculpture. Each individual section would look kind of cool but altogether it would just be a big hodgepodge. Then you mentioned more and more just every subtheme and subgenre of some sort gets its own wing in a museum and there's a bunch of individual statues. Yeah, that sounds a lot better.

[@SpiralSine6]

This is a good point. Choosing only four to stand above everyone else is a tough choice for anyone.

[@patrickkinghan3213]

Man, I'd love a sequal to this where you discuss your layout to a comic creator museum!!

[@jonahi1304]

Simon & Schuster (Washington), Will Eisner (Jefferson), Stan Lee (Roosevelt), Jack Kirby (Lincoln). you can swap the last two but yeah...my simple list

[@spheremode3271]

Really fun discussion. My Mt Rushmore would be: Artists: Eisner, Infantino, Adams, Kirby Authors: Eisner, Lee, Moore, Miller I should note that this is for western superhero-adjacent comics only. It would be exceedingly difficult to do one for the entire medium of comics. I also based the lists on influence on the industry, not on my personal enjoyment of their work (although I really like all their work).

[@orangepalette8264]

My mount rushmore would absolutely be Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Alan Moore or Neil Gaimen and maybe either Will Eisner or Bill Finger

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

It took me way too long to realize "SLAP" is a slang term for something good...

[@flywheelshyster]

Same

[@Israel_hans]

I didn't know what it was until I saw your comment, "OH it's a good thing"

[@Dusty_B]

Ditto lol

[@nolannolannolan]

That's OK, you still slap.

[@someokiedude9549]

If it were me, I'd have Alan Moore, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Moebius, I could go on, on a comics hall of fame.

[@Doddser]

Great episode! Let's get that algorithm beat

[@Sicod79]

What about this legendary comic book creator Sal Crivelli. I hear he has like more than one comic you can buy on Comixology. Is that not epic?

[@daelen.cclark]

I keep forgetting that Superman was co-created by a Canadian, and I adore that he was.

[@InsaneLeader]

COMICPOP FOREVER!

[@simonstoten4819]

Comic legend without enough credit for the statue bill finger, Jack Kirby, Jerry Robinson, Marc Sylvestry

[@SpiralSine6]

For me, it would have to be Lee, Kirby, Eisner, and then there’s a host of people fighting for fourth place: Claremont, Miller, Moore, etc. It’s hard to separate “writing absolutely amazing stories” and “fundamentally creating/changing the comic book industry”.

[@monitor-mindtheover-void6712]

My list: 1) Grant Morrison 2) Neil Gaiman 3) Alan Moore 4) Geoff Johns Also, how did either of you not talk about Neil Gaiman?

[@johnnydeazvedo414]

Andrew Jackson the president who did the trail of tears is not on Mount Rushmore, and the presidents who are on there Washington, Jefferson, Teddy, Lincoln each did great things as president

[@comicpopreturns]

Yeah we realized that, thanks for the tip!

[@johnnydeazvedo414]

No problem just wanted to point it out so people wouldn’t be misinformed

[@comicpopreturns]

Don't worry, there's literally no possibility of that happening.

[@markallen6284]

I personally feel like you need to encapsulate certian eras, and that's the most important part of this. Leaning towards: Will Eisner Stan Lee Frank Miller Tod MacFarlane (or another Image guy)

[@Mikey.N5714]

One of my favorite elseworlds exchange, had to save the video

[@simonstoten4819]

Diktto, Curt Swan,Archie Goodwin, Dan Jugens

[@ItsOver9000Productions]

lmao. i love that title.

[@simonstoten4819]

Paired on the mountain should be Seagle & schuster, Stan & Jack, O’Neil and Adam’s

[@ProfessorKB]

After Lee, Kirby, and Eisner it becomes hard for me to pick a fourth most likely it would be morrison because they represent the modern comic for me.

[@daelen.cclark]

Bill Finger: Batman’s true creator

[@dertitan4870]

Hey, will you stream future episodes of EE still on Comicpop or now on the new channel?

[@stankovicf]

I think all of the live streams will happen on the main channel, but the videos themselves are gonna be uploaded here.

[@TheRealZubes]

So for now, the live show will be streamed/recorded on the main channel on Fridays. Then they episode will be uploaded here the week after. Eventually we would like to have the show streamed from this channel to keep it all in one place.

[@dertitan4870]

@@TheRealZubes Thank you!

[@TheOverLook]

Keep it up!

[@galvatron3323]

John Wagner, Morrison, Kirby, Stan.

[@azurecomet86]

Just wanted to give Brian Azzarello some love. ✌

[@matyG101]

Thinking about this and John Romita Sr should have probably been in this discussion

[@MrFtpforlife]

Forgive my ignorance but what’s a NFT?

[@SpiralSine6]

It’s a new cryptocurrency gimmick

[@benbastian3011]

So sal when is the big bloated event where comic pop fights there arch nemesis THE ALGORITHM

[@zionharris9432]

Glad this show has a home now, hope you guys get monetized👌🏾

[@poonda2840]

Slap

[@jennsolomon5547]

Hey guys u should make your own comics

[@christianndukwe8994]

😂

[@HollowGolem]

I feel like any creator too associated with a single publisher shouldn't be considered. Which, interestingly, means no Stan Lee, no Bill Finger, no Marston, etc. for me. Eisner gets in because he's sort of the OG, and because he kept innovating as an independent creator for decades (up to and including early Graphic Novel _A Contract with God_ which came out in the 70's). Kirby gets in because he was there early doing Captain America, then did so much for 60's Marvel and 70's DC. Even though he's newer, I feel like McFarlane gets it for Marvel and Image stuff, in terms of really shaking up the industry. My 4th is probably Alan Moore. Like it or not, he brought a literary sensibility to modern comics that elevates the medium in a way that informs several (I think better) subsquent creators, like Gaiman and Morrison. And while he's MOSTLY known for stuff he did at DC, his most celebrated work is Watchmen, which is only tangentially (and retroactively) in the DC multiverse. And there's worthwhile non-Big-Two books like _From Hell_ that are worth celebrating.