Any Story Where the Artwork Got Lost in the Mail?
Kenneth M. Lin
numbers. (That was why you had to live near the publisher so you could hand
deliver the artwork.) Is there any interesting story where artwork got lost
in the mail?
Anim8rFSK
Well, I got turned down for working at Marvel by Jazzy Johnny Romita on
the "you have to be local" grounds. This was long ago and far away of
course. And he sent all my stuff despite them saying submissions
wouldn't be returned, and wrote a nice letter too. Stan autographed my
Spider-Man frontspiece.
Not quite what you were looking for, but it's all I got. :)
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iarwain
No, but I do remember Greg Brady losing his father's architectural
plans that he was hand delivering.
I think he got distracted by a young lady (what else?).
Duggy
wrote:
Probably happened. Could have happened lots... interesting depends on
what happened...
If they grabbed some paperboy off the street to redo the art and he
became the new big thing, that would be interesting.
If the comic was delayed or the artist was able to do new stuff, not
so much.
I think there was Robin art that had to be redone because the artist
lost it when he was hit by a bus. I think this happened in Ireland,
but it's a vague memory, and not really what you're looking for.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed may have some stories if there are
any interesting ones, but you'll have to check for yourself.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/06/23/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-history/
Peter Cushing's Ghost
I remember a story about Gene Colan either being mugged and getting art
pages stolen from him or accidently leaving the pages in a taxi for a 70's
Tomb Of Dracula issue that forced Tom Palmer to ink the pages from poor
quality photostats that someone had the smarts to copy of the pencil art
before it was lost.
I also recall art pages from one of the then-newer Marvel artists shipped
cross-country for one of their early 70's book getting lost during shipping
requiring a hastily drawn fill-in issue. I'm not sure of the artist, but it
may have been either Frank Brunner, Craig Russell or Barry Smith.
T.B.
Peter Cushing's Ghost
> In article <XOWdnWYbgtGIvI_W...@giganews.com>,
> "Kenneth M. Lin" <kennet...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I am sure artwork got lost all the time before UPS and FedEx had tracking
>> numbers. (That was why you had to live near the publisher so you could
>> hand
>> deliver the artwork.) Is there any interesting story where artwork got
>> lost
>> in the mail?
>
> Well, I got turned down for working at Marvel by Jazzy Johnny Romita on
> the "you have to be local" grounds. This was long ago and far away of
> course. And he sent all my stuff despite them saying submissions
> wouldn't be returned, and wrote a nice letter too. Stan autographed my
> Spider-Man frontspiece.
>
> Not quite what you were looking for, but it's all I got. :)
Very similar thing happened in my case as well.
Around '74 - '75, I got wind of Marvel opting the Godzilla character from
Toho Films for a comic series. I was still in High School, could draw
decently (but in hindsight was nowhere near pro level) and loved the idea
and submitted a few fully penciled and inked pages, cover comps and logo
ideas. The way I drew Godzilla and the overall tone was very dark and
Godzilla was based in equal parts of the '54 original and the '64-'65
version. Months went by and it looked like the series wasn't even going to
get off the ground. One day, all my art was returned (folded in a 8x10
minilla envelope) with a nicely worded rejection letter by John Buscema and
signed as well by Stan Lee. A "No Prize" envelope was included as well.
A few more months went by and the comic series started it's run drawn in a
far more cartoonish manner by Marvel longtimer Herb Trimpe.
I went on to become an aerospace/aircraft mechanic.
T.B.
Anim8rFSK
Hey, at least your story has a happy ending? Thanks for sharing. :)
whoswhoz
bouncing back several generation, George McManus, who did Maggie and
Jiggs, used to keep watch for stories about airplane crashes and
whenever one went down he sent a wire to the syndicate office claiming
his art was on that plane and asking them to use reprints for the next
week.
iarwain
I've always been curious about the exact nature of the no prize. I
had always assumed it was just nothing.
I suppose there was nothing in the envelope, right? But I didn't know
you would even get an envelope. Was it decorated? Could you describe
it?
YKW (ad hoc)
news:3bidnVPJgv1KjY7W...@giganews.com:
Joe Maneely lost both script and art pages when he danced with a subway
train.
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Anim8rFSK
<8c6d2523-9c6b-4292...@x16g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>,
iarwain <iarw...@hotmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_prize
William George Ferguson
wrote:
Originally, a no-prize was exactly what you supposed, nothing. But then
some smart-ass 'winners' wrote in that they hadn't received their no-prize
yet, so Marvel started sending an empty envelope labeled 'No-Prize'. This
was discontued when Perelman and Icahn were combining to ruin Marvel as a
company. It was later re-instituted. I believe they do it digitally
nowadays.
The one I got back in the early 70s was an empty envelope with
"Congratulations, this envelope contains a genuine Marvel Comics No-Prize
which you have just won!" printed on it. I don't remember exactly what I
got it for, but at that point, it was almost certainly pointing out an
error and a solution.
[google, google] Here's an image.
http://www.newsfromme.com/images2/noprize.jpg
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Patrick
"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM...@cox.net> wrote in message
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Real life "What If...?" If Stan gave you the job, where would you be now?
:)
Patrick
Anim8rFSK
"Patrick" <lodest...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Ooo, interesting question. Hmmm. Well, if I'd been connected in any
way over Spider-Man, I'd have quit over Sins Past, so the answer is "in
another line of work" :-D