WIZARD 55 - "Comics Are In Trouble!" Can Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld Help?

[@zethrofax5879]

at 50:55 the reference model is Cindy Crawford

[@TheHomeOfGraphicLiterature]

The manga and specifically Hideaki Anno segment of this episode was really interesting. Hearing Blue Blazes mentioned was cool, though its not about a baseball mangaka haha, its about Kazuhiko Shimamoto who was the protege of Shotaro Ishinomori. His comic Blazing Transfer Student got a really great OVA adaptationn from Gainax and he made a badass Ishinomori tribute comic called The Skull Man that we got in the US in 2007. He does do a lotta sports stuff but its never focused on a specific sport really. That show was really formative for me, and got me immensely interested in Gainax as well. If you haven't seen Nadia Secret of Blue Water or RE Cutie Honey (based on the Go Nagai comic) i recommend those especially to see some really awesome animation. Definitely check out Gunbuster too, one of my favorite animated features of all time, heavily based upon a tennis anime from the 70s too! Anno always wore his influences on his sleeve. The guy even got married in a Kamen Rider suit. What a character!

[@teetoo3790]

I love these Wizard videos.

[@STASHdadtv]

That pokemon thing came out to be true. When oen of them tried to sell a bunch of the same card to a comic store

[@derektyler5817]

On Rob Zombie yes he drew that stuff and was at one point was actually going to do the artwork for a White Zombie comic that Marvel was supposed to publish for the Marvel Music imprint. If you flip through the booklets for the White & Rob Zombie cds/albums you'll find artwork he did in those.

[@TerryParr]

Rob Zombie also painted the set for Headbangers Ball in 93.

[@BryceStradling]

Also directed and did the art for the tripping segment in Beavis and Butthead do America

[@palchristianandersen9086]

If you want to see the transformation of Chris Bachalo into an absolute beast, you have to read his and Peter Milligan's run on Shade the Changing Man. It's like he's a completely different artist when it ends.

[@bennyblanco89]

Looking forward to see you guys go over Kingdom Come

[@fingerbo]

Thanks for the mention, guys!

[@donaldglass2421]

i love eating cereal and watching a wizard episode on a Sunday morning.

[@jamesstewart8500]

I remember when this channel only had a couple thousand subscribers. It's been awesome to see it grow. Well deserved

[@rhiltonfineart]

The artist on THE DREAMING was the great Peter Snejbjerg who also had runs on STARMAN and BOOKS OF MAGIC. I think he’s now a storyboard artist.

[@soulcraft_84]

I was subscribed to X-men and Wolverine at this point. Around this time they sandbagged Professor X during Onslaught and turned Wolverine into a jello brained buffoon, and I sort of dipped out. I also wasn’t digging a lot of the art and the gaudy computer coloring around this time. One of Rob’s Captain America’s was the last I bought off a spinner rack at Walden Books.

[@andykuhn9798]

Great video, guys. Speaking of Denis Rodier, what an amazing artist! He inked Mike Zeck on an amazing crime story called DAMNED, written by Steven Grant. He brought a life to Zeck's work that most other inkers didn't, or couldn't.

[@austinenglish3892]

glad you're getting to this specific era, probably the moment in comics I was most insanely focused on, bought and read Dreaming, Blood Pool, Astro City, Medieval Spawn/Witchblade, Waid Flash, etc. and thought way too deeply about all of it,.

[@schizoidembolism]

Super stoked to hear Minimum Wage and Scud getting mentioned. Two of my favorite series.

[@pjbrown4736]

I think DC having the agreement with Neil Gaiman is based largely upon how DC fucked up with Alan Moore.

[@scubanimals]

When exactly did the spinner racks disappear from grocery stores? My last memory of seeing one was around 2003 maybe? I vaguely remember being at the Fred Meyers in Seattle and picking up an Astonishing X-Men off a spinner rack. I don't think I've seen one since then.

[@bracketbasher]

Last book I remember was uncanny x-men 275 at a Walmart. But I’m sure they kept making newsstand books

[@grape811]

Did it have something to do with Marvel going exclusive distribution? Seemed it was after that that you stopped seeing comics in grocery stores, gas stations, etc

[@stevedave106]

Great job guys! Love seeing old school wizard!

[@1971thedoctor]

Broadway comics is a Valiant comics 2.0, but Star Seed was the most interesting to come from this short lived company . Probably should have made everything mini series and see what gets the most interest and slowly continue from there.

[@carminedawg9506]

There was something magical about watching bootleg anime on vhs

[@sammcbride2149]

This is right about the time when I started getting back into comics.

[@tomorrowsclassic505]

What a great resource these videos are! Keep up the good work, guys :)

[@nick_a60]

Marc Decascos, the Crow TV actor, was also the lead in the Crying Freeman live action movie also directed by the Brotherhood of the Wolves director.

[@mr_eman]

The Death ad in this Wizard is for Time of your Life which took place before Bachalo had his run on Generation X. He later came back to do High Cost of Living which has his more “polished” style. Sort of prefered his sketchier work on the original mini series.

[@duranarts]

How have I been missing out on this channel?!

[@SethMcFartlane]

10:00 That _Loaded_ drawing is Greg Staples work.

[@juanf5391]

(6:12) I agree. I haven’t been on social-media ( except KZbin and dating sites) since 2012.

[@hsatin20]

I agree with your final comments. I stopped collecting comics through this period also. The "dissatisfied" feeling you describe from reading mainstream comics was the same for me during this time. I had felt excitement for image but I quickly dropped most of their title except Spawn from my comic box at my comic shop.

[@nickjanecke6688]

Evangelion is my favorite anime to this day.

[@levierickson7321]

Bob Layton on vacation. True headline today at time of this vid

[@jamesschulziii9098]

Kay Fabe in effect yo!! 💯

[@oldmandavid7944]

greg capoolo has said an inspiration for his art is Looney toons and when you hear that , you can really see it in his work imo

[@HelloMisterJAMWAH]

The first Cap comics I ever bought were Heroes Reborn and it was initially fun but soon I fell off. When Waid and Garney came back I jumped on board for a couple years (even though Garney left within the first year) and even went back to grab the first run. In retrospect, Garney was way more my speed than Liefeld.

[@bigstefan]

Image put out a trade of Cry For Dawn stories called Angry Christ Comix, I picked it up a couple of years ago. The art's great but it's very dense and the writing is pure 90s edgy goth/punk post-Crow sorta stuff, some of the strips have dated better than others. Less Vigil-style hyperviolence/gore and smut, more nihilist philosophizing/social commentary and adult themes. Some symbolic fantasy type strips, some horror, some grim/gritty slice-of-life. Somewhere between Kabuki, O'Barr and the Northstar horror books in vibe

[@keithperkinsart]

Denis Rodier has a youtube channel. And, yes he's french

[@keithperkinsart]

@@kerwinjohnson1349 thank you

[@chevon5707]

Love it when Ed can’t contain his enthusiasm… you should finish watching evangelion man!

[@Hum0ng0us]

Can you guys do a nice long video about Leinil Francis Yu? I love that guy.

[@thisisowen]

Hitman is fantastic, definitely worth a read. Some of his best work in my opinion.

[@levierickson7321]

Sidebar at the end is 💯

[@davideking]

I think I liked Gunbuster more than Evangelion. I think there's a new blu-ray of Gunbuster out now (or soon)

[@benjaminsmall8446]

Jim ed you guys are the bomb

[@buckminster076]

It would be awesome if you guys did a 90’s Minimum Wage Fantagraphics episode! Fingerman is super prolific, but his 90’s Fanta run will always hold a special place for me. A gateway drug to indie books of the time (Clowes, Cooper, Ware, Matt, Seth, Doucet, etc.). Great, b&w, edgy, cartoony-but-Moebius-clean-line, episodic, underground, NYC, Seinfeld-as-a professional adult cartoonist book. Fantagraphics Books 1 & 2 (10 issue run) are burned into my mind from reading, but the individual issues are gold with a (acrylic?) painted cover by Fingerman and a back covers by greats: Mignola, Cooper, Nowlan, etc. Highly recommend!

[@fingerbo]

Thank you! A friend just hipped me to this mention, which is a nice surprise.

[@thxlopez]

I think 35:00 pee wee big adventure actress (Dottie) EG Daily at time bf is the one that sadly die Jon-ERik Hexum was also in voyagers classic tv series sadly lasted one season

[@eddieblake4039]

They fucked that juggernaut art up!

[@drawrobot]

Could not wait for the bad girl trend to fade out. Hated it.

[@kaudsiz]

Speak for yourself!

[@andarien]

Liefeld and his amazing feet drawings

[@eddiee8478]

wizard!

[@SamNoir-w1b]

Chris Bachelor did not complete the 2nd Death miniseries. Mark Buckinghm took over art chores and finished the series.

[@virnard]

The Captain America cover is 'iconic'? Really? I think you guys need to look up the meaning of the word, as it absolutely doesn't apply to that drawing. 🙂