Tag Archive | "Steve Bissette"

Tyrant in Slumberland – print coming soon

Saturday, April 21, 2012

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This is the first printed bit of Steve Bissette’s Tyrant we’ve seen for a fair few years. A collaboration with Chuck Forsman: the Tyrant In Slumberland print. Ordering details coming soon from Bissette’s website. It’s good to see his Tyrant back!

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Steve Bissette’s Tyrant returns…. sort of…

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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Steve Bissette’s Tyrant was meant to be a huge, huge series. The complete life story of a T-Rex done by an artist with a lifelong passion for the subject. Sadly, Bissette never made it past issue 4, and since then it’s been often talked of as one of those series we’d all like to continue. [...]

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Bissette on “co-creation”, Kirby, Ditko, Marvel and Stan Lee….

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Steve Bissette’s wise words on the recent jack Kirby issues (see here) are now leading to an exploration into what it means to be a creator or co-creator of a character. Using the examples of the characters that were created for the Image 1963 series, where writer Alan Moore, and artists Rick Veitch, Bissette and [...]

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Kirby and Marvel – Steve Bissette has an idea…..

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Last week the courts in the US ruled that Jack Kirby’s Estate have no claim on any of the characters Kirby created under work for hire agreements at Marvel. Quick reminder, just some of those characters include: The Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, The Silver Surfer, The X-Men, The Black Panther…. and we [...]

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Dave Sim & Bissette – the epic letter fest concludes….

Sunday, January 23, 2011

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I covered Steve Bissette and Dave Sim’s continuing correspondence here on the blog a few weeks ago. Since then it’s been continuing in the same, highly entertaining and enlightening fashion and has, as far as we know finished (although you can never really tell with Sim). The final post (#15) on the subject is at [...]

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Bissette & Sim having a little chat….

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Actually, considering it’s up to 9 parts already (all parts linked here), each one filled with something interesting, and is showing little signs of stopping, it’s hardly “a little chat”. Dave Sim, as is his way, is doing it all through fax. Steve Bissette is then putting the faxes and his responses and continuations up [...]

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Steve Bissette’s Forgotten Comic Wars concludes

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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(Steve Bissette and his last Swamp Thing cover for DC, Feb 1987: note the “suggested for mature readers” label) Steve Bissette’s most enjoyable and informative series of posts about the comic ratings troubles of the 80s concludes over at his blog with “How Angry Freelancers Made It Possible for A New Mainstream Comics Era (Including [...]

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Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It’s fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette’s subtitle to the series of posts [...]

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Three Interviews for your Sunday entertainment: Bissette, Talbot & Seth.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Bissette, Talbot & Seth – possibly the strangest legal firm in the world? It’s Sunday morning and you have nothing to do all day. Well, how about spending a while with three fantastic interviews: Steve Bissette: The artist and publisher talks about the lifetime of work, the bad days at DC, Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, [...]

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