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$9.95 in the USA ™ CELEBRATING THE GREATEST FANTASY ARTIST OF ALL TIME A TwoMorrows Publication No. 19, Winter 2019 Plus: The Savage Brush of JOE JUSKO and the Reinvention of TOM GRINDBERG Death Dealer TM & © the Estate of Frank Frazetta. 5 5 5 3 0 0 8 5 6 2 8 1 Cover painting by Tom Grindberg Winter 2019 • The Frank Frazetta Issue • Number 19 TABLE OF CONTENTS th WOODY THE BARBARIAN Ye Ed’s Rant: Goodbye to old friends and hello to 2019 (and TwoMorrows’ 25 !) ......... 2 CBC mascot by & © J.D. KING COMICS CHATTER About Fleener in the Forefront: Mary’s Busy as a Bee. Part two of our jaunty interview Our Cover with the great cartoonist Mary Fleener from her mini-comics work to Weirdo to Slutburger to her current-day debut, with Billie the Bee, as graphic novelist........... 3 Painting by TOM GRINDBERG Comics in the Library: Rich Arndt selects some of the best war comics available .... 15 $9.95 in the USA Ten Questions: Darrick Patrick finds out about artist Greg “Chevy Man” Land ........... 16 ™ CELEBRATING THE GREATEST FANTASY ARTIST OF ALL TIME A TwoMorrows Publication No. 19, Winter 2019 Hembeck’s Dateline: Fred throws light on Steve Ditko’s Shade, the Changing Man . 21 Plus: The Savage Brush of JOE JUSKO and the Reinvention of TOM GRINDBERG THE MAIN EVENTS Art God: An Interview with Frank Frazetta. In 1984, writer/comics historian Steven C. Ringgenberg visited the great fantasy artist at the then just-opened Frazetta Museum, in Pennsylvania, and he came away with an entertaining and informative talk with the most renowned genre painter of all time ........................ 22 Death Dealer TM & © the Estate of Frank Frazetta. Frazetta Fest. Ringgenberg shares a veritable feast of features on the great artist, including Frazetta’s caricature work, rarely-seen public service strips, and the Cover painting by Tom Grindberg lost E.C. Comics story, “Came the Dawn”… the “one that got away”! .................. 38 Longtime comics pro TOM GRINDBERG jumped at the The Savage Brush of Joe Jusko. A career-spanning and enormously enlightening chance to depict the savage conversation with Frazetta disciple Joe Jusko, one of the finest fantasy and super- Frank Frazetta-created character Death Dealer when we asked hero painters working today. Included in the chat are a look at his hard-scrabble and we could not be more upbringing in the mean streets of Manhattan, stint as Big Apple cop, and break- impressed with the results! The artist has alluded to a possible through with his Marvel Masterpieces trading card set, plus much more .............. 48 project with Frank Frazetta, Jr., involving the axe-wielding brute, The Reinvention of Thomas Christian Grindberg. He started off as a Neal Adams to which we heartily hope will clone, morphed into a busy comics pro absorbing the work of John Buscema, come to pass. Our special thanks and completely reinvented himself to join the ranks of great fantasy illustrators to Frank, Jr., for giving Comic Book Creator permission to use such as Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Al Williamson, Grindberg shares about his Death Dealer on our cover. Visit love of Edgar Rice Burroughs, work on Tarzan, and future with The Darkness ....... 74 www.frazettamuseum.com for information and to peruse the BACK MATTER many Death Dealer… umm… Death Dealer TM & © the estate of Frank Frazetta. Painting © Tom Grindberg. Death Dealer TM & © the estate of Frank Frazetta. Painting Tom deals and other items! Creators at the Con: Photographer Kendall Whitehouse captures the living spirits ...... 94 Don’t STEAL our Creator’s Creators: We look at the career of guest-editor Steven C. Ringgenberg ...... 95 Digital Editions! Coming Attractions: The “Not Your Average Joes” special is coming in CBC #20 ....... 95 C’mon citizen, DO THE RIGHT THING! A Mom A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: Kyle Baker knows The Shadow! ................ 96 & Pop publisher like us needs every sale just to Right: A detail of Frank Frazetta’s cover painting used on the Flashing Swords #1 hardcover edition [1973]. survive! DON’T DOWNLOAD OR READ ILLEGAL COPIES ONLINE! 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Cooke/TwoMorrows. ISSN 2330-2437. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. © The estate of FRank Frazetta. This issue is dedicated to the memories of RUSS HEATH, MARIE SEVERIN, GARY FRIEDRICH, STAN LEE, and MICHAEL CHANDLEY ™ JON B. COOKE Welcoming 2019 Editor & Designer Farewell to old friends and hello to a very busy new year! What a cascade of tragic Expo Center, New Jersey, which will JOHN MORROW passings in the last few months, host many Weirdo contributors — Publisher & Consulting Editor losing so many legendary comics Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, Kaz, Mark creators in such a short period Newgarden, and Carol Tyler, so far — STEVEN C. RINGGENBERG of time, including my dear friends plus my good chum Drew Friedman, Russ Heath and Marie Severin, The Book of Weirdo cover artist! For Guest Co-Editor as well as pal Gary Friedrich details, visit the website of pal Cliff and Stan “The Man” Lee, who Galbraith’s great annual Secaucus MICHAEL AUSHENKER was generous with yours truly. show at eastcoastcomicon.com. Godspeed, my friends. I am also helming a special cel- Associate Editor Also mentioned atop this ebration of TwoMorrows Publishing page is the fine Providence- — The World of TwoMorrows — a TOM GRINDBERG based bookseller Mike Chandley, book marking the 25th anniversary of Cover Painter whose sudden death stunned John and Pam Morrow’s company. the book-loving community. His It goes without saying that yours Cellar Stories and Books store truly owes much of his career to the GEORGE KHOURY was the stuff of legend and he publisher and I’m pleased as a pickle RICHARD J. ARNDT long supported Ye Ed’s various to share that appreciation by editing a projects. From my mother and detailed history of the Raleigh-based TOM ZIUKO myself: rest well, Mike. Memo- outfit’s many accomplishments. Contributing Editors ries of you will be treasured. Details are still being worked out, but I write these words just be- suffice to say, it will debut at the 2019 STEVEN THOMPSON fore we close the books on 2018, Comic-Con International: San Diego, eagerly awaiting the coming where — ye ghads! — I have been STEVEN TICE new year. To keep readers in invited as a guest of the convention! BRIAN K. MORRIS the loop, Ye Ed will be extremely In addition to moonlighting as an editor at It’s Alive! Press (where Transcribers active in 2019, with the release of his 12-years-in-the-making publisher Drew Ford is reprinting tome, The Book of Weirdo, being some fascinating items of yore, J.D. KING released by publisher Last Gasp importantly a collection of the great come May. This will likely be anti-war war series, “The Lonely War CBC Cartoonist of Willy Schultz,” by Will Franz and my magnum opus, an insanely Frank Frazetta portrait ©2019 Ronn Sutton. exhaustive history of Robert Frank Frazetta by Ronn Sutton Sam Glanzman), I am co-authoring TOM ZIUKO Crumb’s legendary 1980s humor John Severin: America’s Two-Fisted CBC Colorist Supreme comics anthology, a retrospective to which over 130 Talent. Co-writer Greg Biga hosted my visit to Colorado Weirdo contributors participated, including Mr. Crumb in June when we visited the home of the great comic RONN SUTTON himself, who said book artist’s daughter, Michelina, and we scanned an my efforts made amazing array of Severin artwork. This TwoMorrows CBC Illustrator for a “great book is tentatively shceduled for late fall/early winter. book,” adding, As if that isn’t enough to do, I have written a four- ROB SMENTEK “So, from a, you act play with longtime creative partner and li’l brother know, historical Andrew, for which we’re currently conducting table The Book of Weirdo CBC Proofreader perspective, readings with New York City-based actors. The first act you performed a read-through of The Golden Age — a poignant comedy- GREG PRESTON great service.” drama based in the studio of fictional outfit Wonder Comics and set during the birth of the form — went CBC Contributing Photographer Choke! The 288- © Jon B. Cooke. Cover art Drew Friedman. page retrospec- spectacularly and the Brothers Cooke are tremendous- tive will be offi- ly excited at the prospect of an actual stage production. KENDALL WHITEHOUSE cially released Great White Way, here we come! CBC Convention Photographer at the East Coast Alas, we couldn’t fit in the latest portion of Michael ComiCon, May Aushenker’s mammoth Rich Buckler interview this ish, 17–19, at the but will strive to include next time. We do our best… MICHAEL AUSHENKER Meadowlands Gotta go… I’m off to tackle the layout and design of FRED HEMBECK Roger Hill’s Mac Raboy: Master of the Comics! See all of you fine people in 2019! GEORGE KHOURY — Y e Crusading Editor TOM ZIUKO cbc contributors CBC Columnists Kyle Baker Drew Friedman Denis Kitchen Darrick Patrick Wayno To contact CBC, please email Comicartfans.com Tom Grindberg Stacey Kitchen Rob Smentek Kendall Whitehouse [email protected] Mary Fleener Fred Hembeck Dimitri Mais Kevin Sollenberger Glen Whitmore or snail-mail CBC, P.O.