Saturday, April 11, 2009

New Feature Every Wednesday: HUMP DAY Q&A


Beginning Wednesday, I'll be posting a new feature, HUMP DAY Q & A, a quick-and-dirty interview with a cartoonist or comics-industry professional. You can be sure that this will be a mix of alternative cartoonists, Marvel and DC veterans, and up-and-coming indy cartoonists. Speaking of which....

.....Here's a tasty morsel. It's the original art for the cover of the first issue of THE HUMAN FLY, an underrated second stringer series from Marvel's Bronze Age which lasted 19 issues and featured the freewheeling, love-it-or-hate-it style of the inimitable FRANK ROBBINS, fellow penciler LEE ELIAS and inker FRANK SPRINGER, who passed away last week (essentially, THE INVADERS crew). DON PERLIN, MIKE ESPOSITO and STEVE LEIALOHA also contributed to HUMAN FLY, which was the subject of my very first article in BACK ISSUE! magazine (issue # 20; see www.TwoMorrows.com for the 4-1-1). This art comes courtesy of its artist, AL MILGROM. Thanks, Al, it's a "dazzler" (get it, Springer fans?)!

2 comments:

Javier Hernandez said...

WHOA! The original cover art to HUMAN FLY #1! What a scoop! That's got to be about one of the best cover illos ever made. All the dazzle and drama of the Human Fly in classic Marvel-style (too bad Joe Que Pasa doesn't remember this stuff...)

CARTOON FLOPHOUSE is quickly becoming the web's #1 source for Bronze Age Gold!!

Greenblatt the Great! said...

Thanks, Javy!

Imagine if THE HUMAN FLY were in print today, Javy... with those lousy monthly numbers that got it canceled at # 19, it'd rank today as....THE NUMBER ONE BEST-SELLING COMIC BOOK IN CIRCULATION!

More Bronze to come......