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Assistants

Assistants

Tony Mortellaro assisted John Romita by inking the backgrounds on some issues in the ’70’s. He liked to work his name into the backgrounds on billboards, building and water towers. etc. This is an example from issue #119, page 8. To see the entire page,...
Wanted To Buy!

Wanted To Buy!

This is page 11, from Captain America #248 by John Byrne and Joe Rubinstein and I have been looking for the original art since it was first published in 1980. It’s a special page to me as I’ve been a Commercial Artist my entire career. I have experienced...
Merchandising Art

Merchandising Art

In the image above, the black and white drawing on the left is the original artwork. It was originally drawn to promote the ASM newspaper strip. Since then, it has been used countless times in ads, pin-ups, posters and even the cover corner box art on the ASM comic....
Heroes Con

Heroes Con

Trudy and I made our first visit to Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC in June. We had a great time and will certainly go back next year. It was a big-time con, with a small-con feel. The list of creators was quite varied and excellent. We did not run out of things to...
San Diego

San Diego

While I haven’t been to the con since 2005, I’ve been fortunate to attend a few, the first being in 1995. That year I read in the CBG that Gil Kane was going to be attending and I really wanted too meet him. Gil was the artist when I first started reading...