Todd McFarlane's Facts & Illusions

[@loneangler9063]

Jim Lee is great, but people really need to look at Todd McFarlane for Comic book advice. He has so much love and knowledge in comics.

[@RockandrollNegro]

Acid washed mom jeans, no belt and a mullet? Yep, this is 1993 for sure.

[@bcash1994]

Pants hiked up past your belly button, wrist watch. Oh yessssss. The good old days

[@123612100]

This style is back in fashion.

[@misterkrogan8837]

@@123612100 it is actually

[@TeatroGrotesco]

Yup, don't need to check the creation date or the copyright date, the year is lit up on center stage.

[@robertritchey1210]

Love McFarlane's passion & how he tries to broaden others also.. his Spider-Man is Classic!!!

[@ChadTownsend]

I still have the entire VHS collection of these Stabur ComicBook greats vids. I wish he kept making them. Now that they’re on YT I listen to them while I draw just like I did as a teenager

[@amedeomodigliani4389]

Todd really loved Rutabaga-Man back in the 90's

[@RockandrollNegro]

Legend has it that the industry imploded in the nineties due to the hype surrounding Rutabaga Man Issue 75, the "Death Of Rutabaga Man." That issue sold well, as did the follow up, "Funeral For A Vegetable." But then retailers ended up ordering way too many copies of the "Return of Rutabaga Man." Then they dragged things out by having four different Rutabaga Men in "Reign of the Rutabaga Men" and none of them ended up being the real Rutabaga Man. That was personally when I stopped reading.

[@loneangler9063]

0:38 bruh they introduced him like he's getting ready to do a stand up comedy set lmao!!! I'd love to see Todd doing stand up, and just tell a bunch of Spawn Jokes😂🤣🤣

[@barahng]

It's like the Tonight Show you're right 😂

[@JasonBiggart]

I have this on VHS still in the box. I showed it to the CGC guys at SDCC this year and none of them had seen it before it's a VHS packaged with Spawn #1. Thanks for sharing now I don't have to open it.

[@newatlantisrepublic6844]

I’ll pay you 5k for it.

[@SiddharthBishnu27]

really really awesome, inspiring and informative... thank you for putting this up 90's comic book nerd... :)

[@extremecomicbooknerd]

+Siddharth Bishnu No problem bud. I love these old videos.

[@zionleach3001]

I wish I was born in the 90's. Compared to his business suit in the animated show. This caught me off guard.

[@anthonycarlisle6184]

Lol 22:00😆 I like Spawn BECAUSE of the environments and world details. It's called story telling, and not all of us liked the cop drama, the "action", blood, guts, & satanic shit Todd forgets some kids back then liked Spawn because the comicbook paper was fantastic and wouldn't crap out- like pages rip, paper so weak it breaks off the spine like marvel & dc back then. I just liked the quality of the overall product as a kid, the stories were "mature" & the world looked lived in, especially the back alleys.

[@IGRETRO]

Thanx, I really admire Todd, his energy and his work

[@monadamus42]

This is amazing! Thank you so much 90's comic book nerd! Your amazing! I love Todd so much, he's more brilliant than the world understands.

[@loringbush1455]

I don't see anyone leaving Marvel or DC these days to start their own comic book company! Today it would cost millions! Tod had to be 26 years old when he filmed this amazing art lesson! Today he has to be approaching 50!

[@DinosaurKing]

These days you don't NEED to start a comic book company to get your work published, and working for Marvel/DC today is the new slumming it lmao

[@robd1329]

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[@miamimagicians]

Same thing with Eastman and layered the creators of the ninja turtles

[@jlevans1985]

Today you have more options to either self publish in physical or digital format

[@saramations]

this is such timeless advice the biggest change now is that you can't dogpile editors for a job. social media and the internet kinda ruined that since it's so easy to send your work now, you'll just end up getting buried and ghosted if you pester them too much. 3:59 bookmarking

[@Goggalor1990]

Yes! I keep saying this, that the way Todd keeps telling people he got a job at Marvel is just not realistic in today's publishing world. You try to send them a ton of packages and stuff it's all going in the trash before anyone even opens it.

[@michaelsimkins7078]

That sounds like a assumption saramations! How do you KNOW that for SURE? I myself am trying to get into the Comic Book Industry, but I'll send my samples to everyone except Marvel and DC! Give me some up-to-date facts to correct that assumption of yours or SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[@loringbush1455]

Back then comics were 1.95 an issue today there 5.99 an issue! I only buy back issues from tbe 90s!

[@grantirwin7769]

I need one of those spawn baseball caps that shit is 🔥🔥🔥

[@joeblows4694]

Talking to them kids like they're veterans of comics 😂 they're still wetting the bed!

[@saramations]

😂 😂 i really like it. personally, i probably would have liked this style of talk at the age of...9 even if i didn't get all the jargon, because it's his confidence in his voice that's the selling point.

[@loringbush1455]

Yes I still have this 📼 tape with my #1 issue of Spawn! Wow! This is amazing and totally rad dudes!

[@landofthesilverpath5823]

Whatever happened to the Spawn Mobile!?!?

[@Narumi4918]

Does anybody know if that hat is still around? I love the embroidered logo on white, would pay a pretty penny for one.

[@carca227]

Maybe you can post the CNN Impact 1997 Todd Mcfarlane special video? Todd inking at home in 96 is seen there. Thanks!

[@appidydafoo]

29:29 - Is it real? No. Does it look cool? You betcha it does

[@loringbush1455]

Shadowhawk is my favorite comic book from Image comics! I'm surprised that they never did a Spawn Shadowhawk cross over! Yes he did a Spawn Batman cross over written bye Frank Miller!

[@michaelsimkins7078]

"bye" does not mean the same thing as "by" or "bi", every word has it's OWN definition and meaning! That's common knowledge in Japan, EVERYTHING has meaning to it! Don't be a street person, be a Smart person!

[@Handle...This.]

23:00 I first saw this a few years ago and got really pissed off because Todd never even let the lil dude ask a question. This whole panel was shamelessly used to persuade parents that comics aren't bad for kids. Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with every point he made, but it could've been executed a little better. I think Rob should've held that panel because he is more relatable and presentable. Todd just came off and sometimes still comes off as a used car salesman, but he is intelligent...I will give him that!

[@russiangravy3870]

I don’t agree that Todd McFarlane presents like a “used car salesman,” but I agree those interviews were less about the kids and more for their parents.

[@ShotOfSelf]

True, he’s a businessman at heart. Think all of the Image guys were since they gave up on their books pretty quick.

[@RockandrollNegro]

These videos were produced by Stan Lee, and he encouraged the same hucksterism in these videos that he always projected. "Don't get too technical," Stan told Whilce Portacio. "If they want to learn how to do a technical job, they can plunk down another $19.99 for _How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way_ and be the next Buscema."

[@michaelsimkins7078]

"Please answer this to the Nation"! YOU TELL 'EM TODD MCFARLANE! STOP BLAMING COMICS AND RUINING SHIT FOR OTHER PEOPLE!

[@Kinobambino]

19:54 I wanna know if he made it

[@ChadTownsend]

I had the same thought.

[@Aaron_Jason]

I think his name is saleem crawford, and seemed to work up until like 2001 in comics. Worked for image too looks like.

[@calebxcuyugan]

I want a rutabaga-man comic & figure line

[@AF-Twice]

I wonder if there were any future successful comicbook artists in that crowd.

[@nh8444]

Man, you used to have to buy these on VHS, now we get to see them for free. I get such a Homer Simpson vibe from young Todd.

[@sephirothxer0]

Wait, so... they drew the pages first, then wrote a script to go with them?? That explains a lot of the 90s

[@Kinobambino]

Right?

[@puppeli]

thats just the "marvel method"

[@noahmactutus1520]

They did the same in the 60,70s,80s

[@norrin_falk]

That technique was done way before the 90's, Stan Lee used to receive the comic pages done byt steve ditko and romita sr and then add the wording

[@Clay3613]

@@puppeli Cept Stan Lee and others could actually write beyond boobs, blood and guns.

[@benkenobi5128]

Unpopular opinion... I prefer Rob Liefeld as an artist.

[@joseescobar1406]

Wrong , about 1 thing as a youngster those bazookas were fresh , but I appreciate exquisite architecture. Spawn cover art always reminded me of graffiti murals the lettering and adding dimension for detail.

[@JLSComics]

Todd reminds me of Happy Gilmore here

[@andrewsteele9165]

Imagine flicking channels and seeing this back in the day, fascinating and educational vs the endless crap we get now.

[@needfoolthings]

But Todd. The kids in the audience don't have those leg muscles yet...

[@TimothyTimPSP]

lol he got mad because they kept clapping. Ok guys. GUYS! GUYS!

[@loringbush1455]

Is Chance Wolf still lettering comics?

[@saramations]

Wonder where these kids who were on the mic are now.

[@needleman08]

24:03 well todd you've kept reasonably the same price now for twenty some years, so "a buck 95" aint bad in todays world

[@Noizedas]

That spawn hat tho.. so sexy

[@m1herrmann160]

24:31 what the hell did Todd mean about "dont leave any spare chamge around...." makes it sound like the kid Todds talking to is a thief.

[@Noizedas]

Wonder if they’ll ever re do that spawn movie tho

[@Ada-zg2qb]

20:32 Yess...

[@Araqnidm]

Seeing a comic creator giving a lecture to a room full of eager young kids is really how you know this is from a bygone age. Modern American comics are so dull and static, all the kids moved on to manga 20 years ago and never looked back.

[@Hyperion_Studios1]

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[@vanesarochellygutierrezcas7518]

😎😍😍

[@nerfherder9796]

LEARN TO DRAW FROM COMICS!!!! TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN!!!!!!

[@russiangravy3870]

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