Leila Leiz • Stan Goldberg • the Gods of Mount Olympus
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$8.95 in the USA ™ A TwoMorrows Publication No. 9, Summer 2015 Madman TM & © 2015 Michael Allred. Flaming Carrot Bob Burden. E-Man & Nova TM & © 2015 Joe T. Staton. Femme Noir TM & © 2015 Christopher Mills & Joe Staton. Staton. Femme Noir TM & © 2015 Christopher Mills Joe E-Man & Nova TM © 2015 Joe T. 0 3 1 82658 97073 4 also: LEILA LEIZ • STAN GOLDBERG • THE GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS • KATIE GREEN Summer 2015 • Voice of the Comics Medium • Number 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Ye Ed’s Rant: The Tyranny of Time ................................................................................... 2 E-WOODY COMICS CHATTER CBC mascot by J.D. KING Remembering Seth Kushner: The late photographer/writer’s good friend and ©2015 J.D. King. collaborator Christopher Irving recalls the recently departed CBC contributor ................ 3 About Our Cover Katie Green: An interview with the Lighter Than My Shadow graphic novelist ............ 4 Aushenkerology: A personal ode to Cowboy Henk and the great European comics .... 6 Art by JOE STATON Color by MATT WEBB Incoming: The Therapeutic Value of “It” and Roy Thomas on Kull the Conqueror ....... 10 The Good Stuff: George Khoury talks with artist Leila Leiz about living the dream ..... 14 Hembeck’s Dateline: Our Man Fred chats up longtime pal Joe Staton ...................... 17 Stan Goldberg: Part one of Richard J. Arndt’s interview with the late cartoonist and Marvel colorist, a man remarkably appreciative for his long career in comics ....... 18 GODS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS SPECIAL SECTION Johnny Lee Achziger’s Olympian Achievement: CBC’s three-part examination of a little-known but breathtaking 1970s comics project starts with recollections of the guy who authored and helmed the tabloid-size (and ill-fated) series ........... 26 Joe Staton, Myth-Maker: The issue’s featured subject shares the story behind Only two things were requested his spectacular artistry on the Greek mythology comics series ............................... 30 of cover artist Joe Staton: Please include Alec Tron, Nova Kane John Workman’s Mighty Aphrodite: The artist who followed up Joe on the short- (a.k.a. Katrinka Colchnzski), and any other creator-owned lived series talks about the Gods’ brief revival in Mike Friedrich’s Star*Reach ...... 32 character he’d like to add — plus The Comics Library: R.J. 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Comic Book Image courtesy of is a proud joint production of Creator is a TM of Jon B. Cooke/TwoMorrows. ISSN 2330-2437. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. Shaun Clancy & Mort Todd. Jon B. Cooke/TwoMorrows The Other Man Called Stan Stan G.’s Truest Colors Part one of our interview with the late, great artist about his Marvel and Archie work Conducted by RICHARD J. ARNDT CBC Contributing Editor I always drew, so I was always sitting in a corner and they’d ask “Draw this. Draw that,” and I did. I wasn’t [Stan Goldberg began his career in comics in 1949 running around the house screaming or breaking as a colorist for Timely Comics. Within a few things or causing trouble. My cousins used years he became the head of the colorist to tease me, you know. “Everybody loves department, which lasted until ’58, when Stanley.” But it was an easy childhood. Timely/Atlas experienced a publication Of course, my parents knew that I implosion after their distributor went drew and they always encouraged me out of business. He then went free- at it, but they never encouraged me to lance (and has remained so through- go out and make a living as an artist. out the rest of his career), beginning Not because of any lack of talent, but with work in TV commercials, then they never thought I would succeed. as the colorist for Marvel Comics Nobody really knew what jobs were from ’59 through the mid-’60s. He available for artists in those days. My was also a penciler for numerous teen dad worked for the government and humor books, including Marvel’s Millie he suggested that I get a federal job, the Model, DC’s Binky and, most notably, take some tests, work, and retire with a Archie Comics’ Archie, among many others. nice pension at the age of 49 or 50. My dad, In recent years, before his death last August, though, worked until he was 75, and he loved he worked for Bongo Comics drawing The Simpsons working. My mother would always say, “On Sunday, and for Papercutz on their Three Stooges and Nancy Drew you can sit home and paint. I’ll buy you an easel.” Above: In 2010, in consideration for Stan Goldberg’s considerable titles. He also did many public service projects, including a It never dawned on me that I’d end up with a career contributions to Archie Comics one recently dealing with bullying. Mr. Goldberg has been a as an artist. I graduated from high school. In fact, I got out from the mid-1970s onward, IDW true mainstay of comics from the Golden Age to his passing a little early because I skipped some classes. I graduated published Archie: The Best of at age 82. What follows is the first of a two-part interview when I was 17 years old. Most kids didn’t graduate until they Stan Goldberg. Inset: The artist conducted between March and April 2013. — RJA] were 18 or older. I went away as a counselor at a summer at the 2012 Comic-Con Interna- camp, up in New Hampshire, teaching arts and crafts. When tional: San Diego in a photo by CBC: Thank you for taking the time for this interview. Kendall Whitehouse. Below: Stan: You’re welcome. I regard all the time I’ve spent in Detail of Stan G.’s Millie the comics with a great fondness. All the people I’ve worked Model #140 [Aug. 1966] cover. with — Joe Maneely, Stan Lee, John Buscema, Sol Brodsky, Mike Esposito, Frank Springer, all those guys. It’s all real history and I’ve got a great memory. I remember them very fondly. Now that the whole interview is over, thank you for calling, Richard, and that’s the end of it. Photo © Kendall Whitehouse. Archie TM & Publications, Inc. CBC: Ooookay! [laughter] Before that actually happens can we start off with information about your early life? How you got interested in drawing, that sort of thing. Stan: I grew up during the Depression, in the 1930s. Money was pretty tight in those days, but my dad was fortunate enough to work for those years. Sometimes he had private jobs, but for the most part he worked for the government until he retired. He worked in the Social Security Administra- tion and in the Internal Revenue Service. I was an only child, but that was fine. I didn’t have to share anything with a sibling and I never even missed having a brother or sister, because it was the type of family that would be called an “extended family” today. There was the matriarch, the grandmother, and the patriarch, the grandfa- ther. Mine had a little house in the Bronx.