September 23, 2012
FFF Results Post #309—Being Scott Dunbier
On Friday,
CR readers were asked to "Imagine You're Scott Dunbier With An Unlimited Budget, A Magic Stone That Makes Originals Appear, And The Mutant Ability To Compel Artists And Publishers To Work With You. Plan Five Of The Shot-From-Original-Art-At-Size Artist's Edition You'd Publish Through IDW. Use something close to this format." This is how they responded.
Tom Spurgeon
1. An appropriate chunk of
High Society, maybe the election issues.
2. A complete Chester Brown Bible book adaptation.
3. Gilbert Hernandez's Tales Of Palomar Ignatz book.
4. The Jack Kirby-created Captain America "Mad Bomb" story.
5. The Mishkin Saga by Kim Deitch.
*****
Evan Dorkin
1. Will Elder's EC work, including his inking John Severin on war stories. Chicken Fat writ large.
2. Johnny Craig: EC Crime and Horror
3. Jack Kirby's Demon. Two volumes. (and I want that Madbomb book on your list. MADBOMB!)
4. David Mazzucchelli: All the Rubber Blanket material as well as the short stories done for Kodansha, Nozone, Drawn and Quarterly, et al.
5. Yves Chaland: Various albums and stories.
*****
Jamie S. Rich
1. Three stages of Matt Wagner's Grendel, collecting Devil by the Deed, Batman/Grendel #1, and Behold the Devil #1
2. Death: The High Cost of Living, art by Chris Bachalo
3. Mike Allred's Madman: The Oddity Odyssey
4. The Uncanny X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga, by John Byrne, particularly #137
5. Both volumes of Howard Chaykin's Time2
*****
Michael Dooley
1. the compleat Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend.
2. the art for all the Goodman Beaver stories, reassembled.
3. Steranko's Captain America and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; you know which ones.
4. Spiegelman's collage comics.
5. Kabuki: The Alchemy.
*****
Marc Arsenault
I was going to be clever and make this all books I bought off of Scott when he was at Action Comics in NYC. But that would really be a little too much Kirby.
That said...
1. Rocketeers 3 by Jack Kirby
2. Blackhawk by Pat Boyette (242-243?)
3. Crum Bums by Brian Ralph
4. Iron Man 39 by Herb Trimpe
5. Jimbo in Paradise by Gary Panter
*****
Mike Pfefferkorn
1. Joe Kubert's "Creature of a Thousand Shapes!" (Hawkman)
2. Bissette and Totleben's "The Anatomy Lesson" (Swamp Thing)
3. A Golden Age and a Silver Age Bill Everett Submariner story
4. A Matt Baker St. John romance story
5. A selection of Basil Wolverton's Spacehawk stories
*****
Tom Devlin
1. Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown (with the redrawn pencil sequence as an addendum.)
2. David Boring by Daniel Clowes
3. Wig Wam Bam by Jaime Hernandez
4. Multiforce by Mat Brinkman
5. Tubby by John Stanley
*****
Eric Newsom
1. Steve Ditko's Mysterious Suspense
2. Gene Colan's Nathaniel Dusk + Nathaniel Dusk II
3. Bill Watterson Sundays With Calvin & Hobbes
4. Doug Wildey's Jonny Quest Classics 1-3
5. Alex Toth's work for Warren Comics (Creepy and Eerie, and maybe one more I'm forgetting?)
*****
Niel Jacoby
1. Andy Helfer/Bill Sienkiewicz/Kyle Baker's The Shadow
2. The Typhoid Mary arc and other selections from Ann Nocenti/JRJr's Daredevil
3. Selections from Stan Lee/Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four, definitely including the Galactus issues
4. Select Barry Windsor-Smith/John Buscema Conan issues
5. Big Numbers(though I doubt even those hypothetical mutant powers would be able to get this one done)
*****
Adam Casey
1. Early issues of Sam Keith's "The Maxx"
2. The final Epic issues of Jim Starlin's Dreadstar
3. The Captain Marvel "The Monster Society of Evil" storyline
4. An excerpt from Alan Moore's and David Lloyd's "V For Vendetta"
5. A collection of Doug Marlette's political cartoons
*****
Trevor Ashfield
1. "This Beach-Head Earth" by Neal Adams and Tom Palmer and their subsequent stories from the Kree-Skrull War in The Avengers
2. Prince Valiant by Harold Foster
3. "Graffiti Kitchen" by Eddie Campbell
4. "The Thing Enslaved" by Jack Kirby from his last year on Fantastic Four
5. "Exodus", "The Countess and the Aardvark" and related stories from that era of Cerebus by Dave Sim
*****
Tom Bondurant
1. JLA/Avengers, pencilled by George Perez
2. The first several issues of Tomb Of Dracula, pencilled by Gene Colan
3. A representative selection of Dick Sprang Batman stories, including World's Finest and definitely some giant props
4. Architecture & Mortality, drawn by Cliff Chiang
5. The Shadow, drawn by Howard Chaykin
*****
Sam Humphries
1. Art Adams' X-Men
2. Any section of latter Blueberry by Jean Giraud
3. Hard Boiled by Geoff Darrow
4. Elektra: Assassin by Bill Sienkiewicz
5. Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
*****
Will Pfeifer
1. Paul Pope's "100%"
2. Jack Kirby's OMAC -- those eight issues would be just about the right length
3. Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library #19 (The Mars issue)
4. Selected works by Jim Steranko, including Nick Fury, Captain America and "At the Stroke of Midnight"
5. "The Fabulous, Furry Freak Brothers: The Idiots Abroad" by Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides
*****
Chuck Gower
1. Jaime Hernandez's original Mechanics storyline.
2. Mike Mignola's Hellboy - Seed of Destruction series.
3. Charles Burns Black Hole. (Would we be able to see anything different?)
4. Joe Matt's The Poor Bastard collecting my favorite issues of Peepshow.
And... Get ready for it...
5. Art Adams Monkeyman and O'Brien series.
I'd love to see it anyway!
*****
Tim Utsler
1. Hellboy: The Third Wish by Mike Mignola
2. Weapon X by Barry Windsor-Smith (with BWS's color guides on facing pages)
3. Polonius by Jacques Tardi
4. Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book
5. A Vaughn Bode anthology
*****
Ian Sampson
1 - The DC Stories of Alex Toth
2 - Mazzucchelli's Rubber Blanket (w/ production notes pls)
3 - Kamandi #1-33
4 - Jordan Crane's Hand of Gold
5 - Nicolas De Crecy, whatever's handy
*****
Edward Uvanni
1. Strange Tales/ Nick Fury, Agent of Shield Nick Fury stories by Jim Steranko
2. Hellboy The Storm and The Fury by Duncan Fegredo
3. Something from High Society era Cerebus by Dave Sim
4. Jack Kirby's Mr. Miracle
5. Shaolin Cowboy by Geoff Darrow
*****
Rodrigo Baeza
* Alberto Breccia's MORT CINDER
* José Munoz's ALACK SINNER
* Francisco Solano Lopez's KELLY'S EYE
* Frank Robbins's SHADOW
* Jim Aparo's SPECTRE
*****
Patrick Ford
My orientation on these books is not so much towards my favorite cartoonists, but towards artwork which is highly rendered and would really shine in this format. In other words no Jaime Hernandez or Alex Toth. I also would only be interested in artwork where the pencils and inks are by the same person.
1. Mike Kaluta: Carson of Venus, Spawn of Frankenstein, the Shadow. Great lush work which was all very poorly reproduced.
2. Barry Windsor Smith: Red Nails
3. Jack Kirby: A hundred or so pages of the work he penciled and inked in the '50s. Lots of the pages penciled and inked by Kirby are oddly in the possession of the Joe Simon estate and are showing up for sale at Heritage.
4. Harvey Kurtzman: A collection of his preliminary drawings.
5. Robert Crumb: Genesis (or a collection of his WEIRDO stories).
*****
James Vance
1. Jaxon's "Comanche Moon" cycle
2. Simon & Kirby's "Boys' Ranch"
3. Issues 10-13 of Waller & Worley's "Omaha the Cat Dancer"
4. Steve Ditko's stories for Warren Publications
5. Basil Wolverton's "Spacehawk"
*****
Josh Leto
* Dakota North by Martha Thomases and Tony Salmons
* The 'Nam #1-3 by Larry Hama and Michael Golden
* Sandman # 19 by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
* The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book by Bill Watterson
* Hard Boiled by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow
*****
Jake Kujava
1. Steve Ditko's complete work for Warren publication (Creepy, Eerie)
2. Jack Kirby's 2001
3. Alex Toth's Bravo for Adventure
4. Moebius and Jodorowsky's The Incal
5. Dr Seuss, complete Hejji Sunday Strips
*****
James Langdell
1. Some or all of the Swamp Thing In Space issues, especially #60, John Totleben's "Loving The Alien".
2. Extended Pogo stories created by Walt Kelly for the original books, such as "Suffern on the Steppes" and "The Bloody Drip of Mucky Spleen"
3. A complete Howie Post's Anthro.
4. A complete Mother's Oats Comix by Sheridan and Schrier.
5. All of Ditko's ink-wash stories from Creepy and Eerie.
*****
Marc Sobel
1. Alan Moore and John Totleben's Miracleman "Olympus" storyline
2. Jason Lutes' Jar of Fools
3. George Perez's Crisis on Infinite Earths
4. The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot
5. The Incal by Moebius
*****
Douglas Wolk
1. Steve Ditko's "Doctor Strange" episodes from Strange Tales #130-141
2. The John Totleben-drawn Miracleman run
3. Carlos Ezquerra's painted "Countdown/Necropolis" Judge Dredd sequence
4. A selection of the Spirit stories Will Eisner redrew for Warren, with both the original and revised versions included
5. Cover art and other full-page images by Bill Sienkiewicz
*****
Matt Emery
1. Collection of Ken Reid's work on Face-ache, Jonah, Frankie-stein, etc
2. Ian Gibson's first Robo-Hunter story for 2000AD (Complete with Gibson amended first episodes drawn by Jose Ferrer).
3. Judge Caligula from 2000AD featuring Ron Smith, Brian Bolland, Brett Ewins, Brendan McCarthy, Mike McMahon, and Garry Leach.
4. Colin Wilson's Blueberry (Give him a call Scott, I think he still has a lot of these.)
5. Collection of Modesty Blaise stories from Neville Colvin's run on the strip.
*****
Brian Gardes
1. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant
2. Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira
3. Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon
4. Jim Steranko's Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
5. John Byrne's Fantastic Four.
*****
Fred Hembeck
1. Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 and ASM #25 ("Trapped By JJJ"), written by Stan Lee
2. Al Wiseman drawn Dennis The Menace Travel Specials (Hawaii, Hollywood, Mexico, Washington DC), written by Fred Toole
3. All the Neal Adams illoed stories pubbed in Creepy and Eerie during the Archie Goodwin edited era
4. A selection of Johnny Craig's best EC work, including "... And All Through The House"
5. Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD numbers 1 and 3
*****
Rob Salkowitz
1. Bravo for Adventure – Alex Toth
2. The Spirit Jam – Will Eisner and diverse hands
3. Manhunter – Walt Simonson and Archie Goodwin
4. The New Mutants #18-30 – Bill Sienkiewicz and Chris Claremont
5. Lone Slone – Philippe Druillet
*****
Oliver Ristau
1.) DC Limited Collectors Edition #C-36 / The Bible - Nestor Redondo & Joe Kubert
2.) Sub-Mariner Vol. 1 #22 - Marie Severin
3:) First fourteen chapters of 'Terror on the Planet of the Apes' - Mike Ploog
4.) American Flagg 'Southern Comfort' storyline (#4 - #6) - Howard Chaykin
5.) Some of that dark Tranformers/GI Joe stuff Jae Lee did for Dreamwave
*****
Dustin Harbin
1. Complete Chester Brown gospels adaptation (I had to copy that, perfect choice)
2. Acme Novelty Library (the oversized book, the jokes and stuff?)
3. Bone volume 1, the Out of Boneville story
4. Tintin, maybe Blue Lotus + Cigars of the Pharaoh
5. Lone Wolf And Cub volume 1, or the component stories
*****
Richard Pachter
* The Best of Curt Swan (esp. inked by Murph, Klein and Al Williamson)
* Mike Zeck's Captain America
* The Complete Zenith by Morrison and Yeowell
* Jerry Ordway's Superman
* John Byrne's Superman
*****
J.E. Cole
1 Weapon X by Barry Windsor-Smith
2 A chunk of Goseki Kojima's art from Lone Wolf and Cub
3 All of John Totleben's work from the Olympus arc of Miracleman
4 Ultimates 2 by Bryan Hitch
5 The entire The Black Hole arc of ABC Warriors. But only the Simon Bisley art.
*****
Daniel Spottswood
1. Dan Clowes Eightball (earlier one man anthology issues)
2. Walt Simonson's Fantastic Four run
3. Jack Kirby Black Panther
4. Charles Schulz Peanuts (preferably a cross section of strips throughout the entire run)
5. Curt Swan Adventure Comics (Superboy and The Legion stuff)
*****
Gerry Alanguilan
1. Any Barry Windsor Smith stuff collection. I would love to see a Conan book that includes the Red Sonja story, as well as Red Nails. I would also love to see a lot of the one shots he did for Marvel in the 80's collected, including the spectacularly drawn Uncanny X-men 198 and 205.
2. A sizable run of the best of Dave Cockrum's initial run on X-men. I would also like to see a sizable run of the best of John Byrne on the same book.
3. I only ever saw one scan of a Tintin book and I was in tears. I would love to see a Herge Artists's Edition which includes some of his best Tintin adventures, preferably including things like Tintin in Tibet, Red Sea Sharks, Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun and Calculus Affair.
4. A big chunk of John Totleben inked issues of Swamp Thing.
5. Alfredo Alcala's Voltar.
*****
Adam P. Knave
* An appropriate chunk of the first Mage
* The 2 Ambush Bug minis
* Kirby's OMAC
* Ditko's Question
* Gil Kane's Atom
*****
Stu West
1. As many of Brian Bolland's Judge Dredd stories as could sensibly fit in one book.
2. The run of Ditko Spider-Mans that culminates with that Spidey-trapped-under-machinery story.
3. Tintin: Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
4. The John Totleben Miracleman comics.
5. The Cowboy Wally Show.
*****
William Burns
1. Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn
2. JH Williams III's Promethea: Kabbalah Journey
3. Joe Sacco, a good chunk of Palestine
4. Mike Mignola's Hellboy: Wake the Devil
5. Walter Crane, Sheba: The Sands of Seth
*****
Chris Beckett
* Cages by Dave McKean
* Elektra: Assassin by Bill Sienkiewicz
* Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax
* Detective Comics stories by Gene Colan
* The entire Moebius GN line from Marvel
*****
Mark Coale
1. Ty Templeton's Stig's Inferno
2. First 12 issues of Howard Chaykin's American Flagg
3. The Original Motter/Los Hernandez Bros/Seth issues of Mister X from Vortexx
4. The Conway/Perez issues of Justice League of America
5. The Robinson/Harris issues of Starman (selfishly augmented by the annotations from my 90s Starman fanzine)
*****
John Platt
1. The John Totleben run on Miracleman
2. A year of Sunday Calvin and Hobbes strips by Bill Waterson
3. A nice chunk of Promothea by J.H. Williams III
4. The collected Harold Hedd by Rand Holmes
5. Weapon X by Barry Windsor-Smith
*****
Kurt Busiek
1. Bill Everett's 1972 run on SUB-MARINER.
2. Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's ATARI FORCE.
3. Some chunk of twice-up Kirby art on FANTASTIC FOUR, maybe #44-51.
4. Aragones/Cardy BAT LASH.
5. Howard Post's ANTHRO.
*****
Charles Brownstein
1. Bijou Funnies #8
2. Bone: The Great Cow Race
3. Lynn Varley's Ronin
4. Corto Maltese: The Celts
5. Arzach
*****
Scott Dunbier
Okay, since I would have an unlimited budget and a magic stone that could make any originals appear…
1) Winsor McCay's The Best of Little Nemo Artist's Edition
This book would need an unlimited budget because it would cost millions to build a printer and binder that could handle the immense size of the final product.
2) Jack Cole's Plastic Man Artist's Edition
Oh man, I really want this book…
3) Jack Kirby's Boys Ranch Artist's Edition
4) Alex Toth's Complete Stories Artist's Edition
Several volumes and only the stuff he inked himself.
5) Steve Ditko's Dr. Strange Artist's Edition
*****
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