“I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude Marvel superheroes cartoons which basically consisted of taking stacks of the comic book art, taking parts of the art, pasting it down, extending it down into drawings and occasionally a new piece of art to bridge the comic book panels and limited animation and lip movement.” ArtBookTodayPiecesMovementMetsStandardsHollywoodLipsDrawingComicBridgesComic BookCartoonSuperheroAnimationMikeCrudeExtending Author:Mike Royer
“There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.” IfsBookDifferentLateDirectComicComic BookDealerPrima DonnasDirect Sales Author:Mike Royer
“I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she'd have me ink it.” IfsMenYearsHeartSaidStillsFactsTalkingNiceChangedPersonalityYears AgoComicBlessComplimentPlasticInkOnly Time Author:Mike Royer
“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.” PeopleWantYearsProblemKidsTogetherNextGamesEventsTelevisionHugeGoes OnIndustryInternationalComicToysTicketsMarketplaceNext YearDimesMotion PicturesComic ConAdmittanceTelevision Industry Author:Mike Royer
“I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.” PeopleKnowsLastsFoundTheaterTablesMajorityOpeningComicFeaturesComic Con Author:Mike Royer
“I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil] Seuling's conventions for something like three years in a row from '70 to '72 and I remember at the '72 luncheon with the Academy of Comic Book Artists and talking with John Romita about the kind of brushes he used. Pros ask pros the same questions that fans do. "What kind of pens do you use? What kind of brushes do you use?" I was so amazed that the wonderful work John Romita was doing was accomplished with a Windsor-Newton series 7 Number 4. Not a 2 or a 3, but a 4.” PeopleWayYearsKindBookUseRememberUsedArtistThreeAsksNumbersTalkingWonderfulFansMetsLuckySeriesComicAccomplishedPensThree YearsConventionsComic BookAmazedBrushesAcademyNewtonWindsorNumber 4 Author:Mike Royer
“I learned early Jack Kirby favorite movies were the Warner Brothers from the '30s. When you look at Jack Kirby's comic books, or at least when I do, I can make an instant connection. When he said he loved those movies it was like, "Of course."” LooksSaidI CanBookCoursesBrotherConnectionsComicInstantComic BookWarner BrothersInstant Connection Author:Mike Royer