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'Eternals' adds another blockbuster to Jack Kirby's Marvel-ous legacy

CNN 04 Nov 2021

According to Mark Evanier, a writer and former Kirby assistant who wrote the biography "Kirby ... "You can't get your due from employers who don't understand what you've given them," Evanier told CNN, adding, "I don't think he was ever in his lifetime fully appreciated." ... Evanier added that Kirby "wanted two things in life.

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Why Is Scrappy-Doo Hated? Defending Scoob's Infamous Nephew

Collider 12 Oct 2021

Joe Barbera established the basic idea of a little nephew named Scrappy-Doo, animator Iwo Takamoto (probably) prepared a character design, and writer Mark Evanier developed Scrappy’s personality with Looney Tunes star Henry Hawk as a model. Evanier also wrote the script for what amounted to an unofficial pilot for Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.

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THE ICON, a new Mike Mignola-illustrated one-shot, and more in the Dark Horse Comics December ...

The Beat 20 Sep 2021

Mark Evanier (W), Sergio Aragonés (W/A/Cover), Thomas Yeates (A), and Tom Luth (C) ... comic get finished? Legendary Tarzan artist Thomas Yeates swings in to help! Plus—the legendary Rufferto backup strips from the comic series and an introduction by Mark Evanier are also included!.

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INTERVIEW: “A Marvelous Life” author Danny Fingeroth on Stan Lee

The Beat 06 Sep 2021

Danny Fingeroth, in his own words, has worn a lot of hats. To a generation of Marvel fans, he may be best known for his lengthy tenure as the editor of the Spider-Man family of titles, as well as the writer of comics like Darkhawk and Dazzler ... Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero ... Gregory Paul Silber ... Neal Adams, Mark Evanier, Dennis O’Neil.

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ComicCon@Home ’21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners

The Beat 24 Jul 2021

The 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented tonight. Or, as presented as they can be, given that Comic-Con 2021 is once again a virtual affair ... She stressed the quality of all of the submissions, which made the judges’ jobs difficult ... K ... ... Pockets Full of Pie, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) ... .

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New CRITICAL ROLE, NO ONE LEFT TO FIGHT II, and more in the Dark Horse ...

The Beat 23 Jul 2021

Evanier! Aragonés! Yeates! ... Mark Evanier (W), Sergio Aragonés (W/A/Cover), Thomas Yeates (A/Cover), and Tom Luth (C) ... Tarzan artist Thomas Yeates teams up with Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier to deliver a unique crossover experience! Each detailed page is colored by longtime collaborator Tom Luth and lettered by multiple award winner Stan Sakai.

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Six writers win the 2021 Finger Award posthumously

The Beat 30 Jun 2021

Selections were made by a blue ribbon committee chaired by writer/historian Mark Evanier. The choice to only award recipients who had passed away is partly because the awards ceremony will be virtual again this year, said Evanier ... “All of these writers deserve recognition,” Evanier continued.

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Superman Smashes the Klan, The Department of Truth and More: 2021 Eisner Nominees Revealed

IGN Insider 09 Jun 2021

The list of nominees for the 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards has been revealed ... Scroll down to see the full list of 2021 Eisner nominees. The winners will be announced in July as part of Comic-Con@Home ... K ... ... Clean as a Weasel, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books ... .

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2021 Eisner Awards Nominations are led by Image, Fantagraphics and Yang

The Beat 09 Jun 2021

The Eisner Award nominations for 2021 are out! Image (17 plus 11 shared) and Fantagraphics (18) were the most nominated publishers, and Gene Luen Yang got the most individual nominations with five. 3 for Dragon Hoops and 2 for Superman Smashes the Klan ... K ... ... Clean as a Weasel, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) ... .

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Irresistible ABRAMS autumn comics lineup feat. MEGASCOPE & SURELY BOOKS!

The Beat 13 May 2021

A darkly comedic book described as Cocoon meets Heathers… actually, let’s just stop there ... Megascope ... Book One ... 1 ... Promsiing a panel-by-panel exploration of the first issue of Fantastic Four, this book will feature an introduction by none other than Walter Mosley, commentaries from Mark Evanier, photographs by Geoff Spear, and an essay by Tom Brevoort.

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Female Wonder Woman writer got her due — at 94

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 25 Apr 2021

Mark Evanier, a writer and comics historian, had helped bring Kelly from Florida to Comic-Con to receive the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing as presented by the Eisner Awards ... alongside Evanier and Eisner Hall of Fame cartoonist and historian Trina Robbins.

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A new SUPERMAN, STATIC and ICON & ROCKET return, and more in the DC Comics ...

The Beat 24 Apr 2021

The Hunger Dogs, and Jack Kirby’s lost tale “On the Road to Armagetto” (published at full size for the first time ever), along with a brand-new foreword by Tom Scioli, a gallery of Kirby pencils, never-before-collected essays from Kirby and Mark Evanier, and more!.

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AVATAR Chibi, the arrival of YouNeek Studios, and more in the Dark Horse Comics July ...

The Beat 23 Apr 2021

Craig Russell (W/A), Scott Hampton (A/C), Walter Simonson (A), Colleen Doran (A/C), Glenn Fabry (A/Cover), Mark Buckingham (W), Galen Showman (A), Lovern Kindzierski (C), Laura Martin (C), Adam Brown (C), and Jennifer T ... Evanier! Aragonés! Yeates! ... Mark Evanier (W), Sergio Aragonés (W/A/Cover), Thomas Yeates (A/Cover), and Tom Luth (C).

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GROO MEETS TARZAN teams Aragonés’s Wanderer with Burroughs’s Lord of the Jungle

The Beat 22 Apr 2021

The series is written by Aragonés and Mark Evanier, with art by Thomas Yeates and Tom Luth and letters by Stan Sakai ... “I think it says something that in a story that involves Groo the Wanderer, Tarzan of the Apes, pirates, dinosaurs, wild animals, Sergio Aragones and me, the two least believable characters are Sergio and me.”—Mark Evanier.

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16 free WonderCon@Home panels to ‘attend’ during virtual comic convention March 26-27

The Press Enterprise 22 Mar 2021

No, not on their distanced watch ... All programs will stream live online ... Mark Evanier, author of the biography “Kirby ... The cast of the superhero show that premieres on May 7 includes actors such as Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb, and all of them, plus Mark Millar, co-creator of the comic books that inspired it, will part of this panel ... BYOMead ... .