tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181661843785521752.post6826869420982565389..comments2024-03-03T08:46:56.169-08:00Comments on A Very Creepy Blog: Highlights of Warren Publishing (Part 1)Quiddityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986124694445522253noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181661843785521752.post-57282150130672247592023-01-07T22:21:13.497-08:002023-01-07T22:21:13.497-08:00Hey, a little late re-visiting your blog.
If you ...Hey, a little late re-visiting your blog.<br /><br />If you care, the origin of these stories by Mora and Garcia, began when Garcia left Warren and along with some other Spanish artists decided to visit the French publishers. The best-selling comics magazine at the time was Pilote (this is prior to Métal Hurlnat). The Spanish artists showed their work to the magaztine's editor, René Goscinny, writer-creator of the popular 'Asteric' series, and from all the artists, Goscinnny picked Garcia.<br /><br />He later told him, in perfect Spanish, "You are the best artist I've evver seen," and told him he could pick any writer and start working for them. Garcia preferred working with a Spnaish writer to avoid any conflicts with translations, and chose Victor Mora, who was considered a top writer in Spain having created the popular 'Capitan Trueno' series in the 1950s.<br /><br />From their collabortaion came this first series of stories 'Tales of the Unnamed' (I'm translating from the original Spanish and French versions). When Gposcinny received the first story he told Garcia that he would have to pay him more than the other artists because his work so good.<br /><br />In the 1980s Garcia put together a comics journal together with Josep Maria Bea called 'Rambla' where all the artists retained the rights over their work. A nice idea, the problem is that artists are bad managers, and the magazine went bankruot after a year or two.<br /><br />He now teaches art, and there is a video on youtube where you see him do a painting from scratch in front of his students.<br /><br />As to why did Goscinny speak perfect Spanish -— he had lived as a child in Argentina. In the 1950s he moved to New York and worked with Harvey Kurtzman, who offered to translate one of the first series he created with Uderzo (artist of Asterix), 'Oum Pah Pah', and try an sell it in the America market. Unfortunately no one in America was interested in the series, and it eventually appeared in Pilote when both Uderzo and Goscinny participated in the creation of the journal at the end of the 1950s.Diego Cordobahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03217884448976689435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181661843785521752.post-45768131148631099862021-07-07T19:30:36.307-07:002021-07-07T19:30:36.307-07:00Thanks for stopping by! "The Easter Bunny Mur...Thanks for stopping by! "The Easter Bunny Murders" I'll give credit to for such a ridiculous concept, a killer mutant bunny man, although the story's rather abrupt ending was disappointing. Alas, when I originally covered Warren's output years back, I never centrally indexed things; if anything it is probably easiest to find any issue you're looking for by doing a Google search for it. That's what I have to do myself!Quiddityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13986124694445522253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181661843785521752.post-58892442914826828342021-07-05T17:43:24.902-07:002021-07-05T17:43:24.902-07:00Hey Q!
Since you've spent quite a lot of time...Hey Q!<br /><br />Since you've spent quite a lot of time sharing your thoughts with us over on the Warren Report blog, I thought I'd reciprocate. I tend not to look at your views on these things as I don't want your insightful comments to pepper my own. I'd rather be wrong than a plagiarist! Anyhow, coincidentally I was reading Vampi #43 for a post that will go up in a few weeks and I just had to jump over here to see what you made of "The Easter Bunny Murders!" by Boudreau. (I may be the only one who saw this as a goofy parody of Warren horror) That's when I found out you'd resurrected A Very Creepy Blog! Congrats. I'm looking forward to diving into the posts we've already covered. One question: do you have an index somewhere on here that helps us find a particular issue quickly?Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.com