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#25 SUMMER 2013 $8.95 IN THE US LEE WEEKS INTERVIEW & DEMO DC’s Rising Star yildiray çinar inking legend JOE RUBINSTEIN ROUGH STUFF’S BOB MCLEOD CRITIQUES A NEWCOMER’S WORK PLUS MIKE MANLEY AND BRET BLEVINS’ 0 1 1 82658 27764 2 Characters TM & © Marvel Characters, Inc. THE PROFESSIONAL “HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS & CARTOONING WWW.DRAW-MAGAZINE.BLOGSPOT.COM SUMMER 2013 VOL. 1, NO. 25 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor-in-Chief • Michael Manley Managing Editor and Designer • LEE WEEKS Eric Nolen-Weathington Mike Manley interviews the artist’s artist on creating Publisher • John Morrow 3 from the abstract and the process of discovery Logo Design • John Costanza Front Cover • Lee Weeks DRAW! Summer 2013, Vol. 1, No. 25 was pro- duced by Action Planet, Inc. and published by JOE RUBINSTEIN TwoMorrows Publishing. Inker extraordinaire Joe Rubinstein offers Michael Manley, Editor. John Morrow, Publisher. 28 advice and demos his approach to inking Editorial address: DRAW! 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Our digital editions should ONLY be downloaded at www.twomorrows.com DRAW! SUMMER 2013 1 the Art of Discovery Interview conducted by Mike Manley on Feb. 24, 2013 and transcribed by Eric Nolen-Weathington DRAW! SUMMER 2013 3 Lee’s thumbnail rough and finished pencils for the cover of Hulk Smash Avengers #2. Hulk, Iron Man © Marvel Characters, Inc. DRAW!: So you’re getting ready to go to Toronto? wasn’t about all the celebrities or whatever. It was about peo- LEE WEEKS: Going to Toronto in a little less than two ple who liked comic books and wanted to come talk to people weeks. who draw and write comic books, and have that experience. You go to most of the other shows now and if you’re a comic DRAW!: I know they have two shows up there. Which one guy, you’re in the ghetto. You’re way in the back, and it’s all are you going to? about the guy on whatever TV show—The Walking Dead or LW: Apparently, they’re run by the same people. They have whatever show is hot now. a big three-day show and a two-day show. I’m going to the LW: Yeah, you seed the show, you grow the show, now we’ll two-day one, which he claims is about a 20,000-person atten- move in and push you to the back of the bus and take over dance. Apparently that three-day one is pretty big. I don’t the show. know if he’s exaggerating; a lot of times those guys will pad the numbers to get you to come. I went to Heroes Con for the DRAW!: You’re back working on Daredevil now? first time last year, and that was about 20,000, maybe a little LW: Yeah, actually a small story arc I’ve been working on way less. I thought that was a perfect show—the best show I’ve too long. It’s the kind of thing where I work on it a little bit, ever been to. then I step away from it for a few weeks at a time. It’s actually a story I came up with about five years ago, and it sat in a drawer DRAW!: I’ve been to the Heroes Con before myself, and it a couple of years before somebody approved it. They told me reminded me of what conventions used to be like, where it to do it the way I wanted to do it. It’s a weird situation, but they 4 DRAW! SUMMER 2013 let me go away into my corner and do it the way I wanted. I’ve two regrets. “Oh man. I didn’t get over to see Jerry Robinson. been doing a lot of stuff on the side—commissions, more con- I’ve never met Jerry”—or whoever it was that particular year. vention appearances. It’s been a strange decade. But I like connecting with the fans. I feel like I was too iso- lated for a few years. DRAW!: You’ve been posting some of the commissions on Facebook, and they look great. It’s not like the con head DRAW!: I know there are a lot of negative things about Face- sketch, quick with a Sharpie before you go out the door. These book, but I find as an artist it’s a great way to reach out to peo- are really nice, nice drawings. ple and to stay connected to people. Blevins started doing that. LW: Thank you very much. It’s always my goal to He has a fan page, and he’s really been posting a lot the past make sure they get more than what they pay for. month or two, and he’s getting a lot of great responses and Honestly, I don’t remember when I’ve had as much feedback. Because that’s where everybody is. Everybody fun drawing, so it’s very easy to put more time into is on Facebook, and I really enjoy it for that aspect. these. Something’s happened in the past year. I’m sure in five years it’ll be how MySpace used A lot of it has to do with connecting on to be. As soon as Facebook came along, every- Facebook, which I used to despise the idea one said, “See you, MySpace!” of, but I signed up a year ago this month, LW: I was waiting for Yogi Berra there. and started stepping back into the “Nobody goes to the beach anymore; convention scene a little bit. I’d it’s too crowded.” [laughter] been away mostly for nearly “Nobody goes to Facebook a decade, and totally away anymore; it’s too crowded.” for about five years. I But for right now, gosh, I try to do the New York didn’t realize how much show each year. And I appreciated the direct then I added another feedback. When you one, and then last take a long time on a year was the most job, it’s a weird way to I’ve ever done in wait month to month to one year. I did six. month to get feedback on something. DRAW!: The last time that I saw you DRAW!: You and I might have been the were cutting our teeth last New York show around the same time. I did, which might We both worked on that have been four or five Remo Williams, The years ago. I stopped Destroyer comic. going myself. I just kind LW: Yours was good! of got burnt out on having Yours was good! to haul all my stuff with me and everything. I did a little show DRAW!: You’re being up near Allentown back in August, and far too kind. that was fun. The people were very nice LW: That underwater and everything. But doing the whole self- stuff. I remember that; that publishing thing and the magazine, you was beautiful. would drag your comics, and drag all your artwork, and drag all your back issues, A Rocketeer convention commission piece. DRAW!: The nice part of that was and set everything up, I found it became Rocketeer © The Estate of Dave Stevens. I got Al Williamson to ink some of that. a diminishing return for my effort. And But that was one of those five pages a the part that I liked the most was seeing guys like you and other day kind of things.