An "Epic" Collaboration

In 1978, I had a show of original drawings of my comics at the prestigious Lucca Festival in Italy. In three days of being there, I managed to meet and socialize with some of my comics idols: Joe Kubert, Dino Battaglia, José Antonio Muñoz, Bobby London, Les Lilley, Sergio Toppi, and Hugo Pratt. I also had the pleasure of meeting a few comics editors/publishers, among them Rick Marschall.

Soon after, in 1979, Rick founded a new magazine titled “Epic Illustrated,” published by Marvel Comics. In the first issue of the magazine, published in the Spring of 1980, he published three of my comics, and that’s how our collaboration started. Despite my 40-year hiatus from drawing comics, we’ve still stayed in touch over all this time.

 

“Mary Perkins, On Stage”

Recently, I acquired this slightly beaten-up and folded page from the comics “Mary Perkins, On Stage” by Leonard Starr from 1975. This is not his most exciting composition of the page, but his brushstrokes are exquisite. It’s amazing to see how easily he’s drawing all this. 

The comic came with a vellum cover with a color break.

 

”Modern Times” Design Documentary

I am pleased to share with you this episode of the 2023 documentary television show “Moderna Vremena” (”Modern Times”) authored by Dubravko Merlić. The series aired in 2023, but I didn’t get this link to share it with you all until now. This is the sixth episode, dedicated to design in the 1980s in Croatia. The segment about my work begins at 30:50.

Unfortunately, the show is in Croatian, so my Croatian viewers will have to deal with being able to understand what I’m saying.