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  • August 17th, 2013 6:36pm

    artofcomicbooks:

    And I have often wondered – of what point is resistance? Of what use is such struggle? Bleak thoughts that are with me always, the coldest logic. The blackest celestial math. A vice grip from which there is only one relief. To remember – to recall what it was to stand among them. To know their fear. Their pain. The struggle that is their resistance. To feel the warmth of life’s joy. To stand in awe of its beauty. To stare into the darkness…

  • May 8th, 2013 5:39pm

    seanhowe:

    “I remember the straw that broke the camel’s back. I had drawn a double-page spread in one of the Strange Tales sequences featuring Nick Fury on trial by Baron Strucker and the agents of HYDRA. I had something like a hundred figures in the background, all individual figures. I wrote a note to the colorist, Stan Goldberg, saying, “Stan, color all these men individually.” Stan would probably put a sheet of blue over the whole thing, and that seemed criminal, because—although it might look good—after all I had done all that work putting in all those figures, I didn’t want them all obliterated.

    I took the story up to Marvel, and Stan looked at it and said, “I’ve had it, Steranko. Do it yourself. Take it away. I never want to see you again; just take the stuff away and color it yourself.” So I started coloring all my material at that time, at $2.00 per page; later it went to $3 per page. I could only color about ten pages a day, so you can see I was losing a lot of money. I could have just been penciling for two or three times as much; but the strip emerged a more perfect marriage of concepts as a result. So I was willing to take less money, by using that time to color and thereby make the story come out better.”

    —Jim Steranko to George Olshevsky, 1977