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I’ve told people I was born with a “pencil in my hand†instead of the proverbial “silver spoon in my mouthâ€. I’ve been very artistic all my life. I mean, I was the class artist starting in Kinder Garden right on up thru high school. When I was a kid my older brother collected comics, and with me being creative, the artwork attracted me. Drawing comics became a means to express myself. I would draw my own adventures in comic book form. People have told me if I would have stayed on that path I would probably be one of the big name artists in the comic book business. But for some reason doing comics never really satisfied me. Eventually I realized why. I wanted my creative visions to come to life. I wanted to make them into movies. But I sincerely believe creating comic book adventures most of my life has made me a better filmmaker.
Now you "non comic book fans" may roll your eyes at doing comic books, but the fact is creating comics and making films have a lot in common, especially if you are a film director, cinematographer, or editor. In creating a comic (especially an independent comic) you usually wear most (if not all) of these hats. You must tell a story visually from beginning to end. You are the writer of course, but once you have your story, you must layout the panels determining the perspective of the viewer in each panel and panel elements such light direction and shadow (cinematographer). You decide on how the characters will appear emotionally and move in the comic panels (director). You chose how the panels flow to tell the story (editor). The bottom line, creating a comic book taught me how to tell a complete visual story, thus making me a better filmmaker. And BTW, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Raimi, and of course Kevin Smith were all comic books fans.
Now, getting back to comics. I was 10 years old when I got my first Spider-Man book back in 1973. My first Spider-Man book was Marvel Team-Up (volume 1) #22 Spider-Man and Hawkeye.
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That book lead me to getting Amazing Spider-Man #129 which happened to be the first appearance of the Punisher.
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Then I was truly hooked. I have collected Amazing Spider-Man since that issue. During this time I went back and bought back issues and completed my Amazing Spider-Man collection back to #1. The only book I need is Amazing Fantasy #15. Ahhh, maybe some day.
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I have stuck with Spider-Man thru thick and thin. The good and the bad times, the good creative teams and the not so good creative teams. But it seemed like in recent years the Spider-verse had really starting spinning out of control. It all began with JMS and his "cosmic destiny" stuff. After that came the "evolution" story line where Peter became some sort of "super-spider" complete with "stingers". This was not my Spider-Man. Then my world was rocked when during Civil War Pete revealed his identity to the world. That is when I came close to ending my association with Spider-Man, but I stuck with it once again, hoping that Marvel would invoke some sort of "cosmic reset button" and make everything right. I am so happy to say that is almost exactly what happened.
Enter Q and the "One More Day" story line.
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Now things in the Spider-verse has been magically changed to where Pete is single, living with Aunt May, has no organic webs, no stingers, no cosmic connection, secret ID is not known, and Harry Osborn is alive. I can hardly wait to see what other surprises are in store, and how Q and Marvel fits this into the rest of the present Marvel Universe.
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The very rare Sketch Variant.
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The Best Rogues Gallery In Marvel
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