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2007-03-29 14:34:28

Ah, don't you just love the holidays? Merriment and gift-giving followed by weeks and weeks of just doing nothing but playing games ("Gears of War" and anything Wii, 'natch) and reading comics (Powers: The Definitive Collection Vol. 1 and New X-Men Omnibus--I could kiss you!). At least, that's how the holidays went for me. I'm just now waking up from that eggnog haze and will get back to blogging ASAP.

As in right now. No interview this time out, but I was able to sneak into two cool meetings this week.

Well, one meeting and one class. Artist extraordinaire Klaus Janson made his way back to Marvel to teach another class (see Tom Brevoort's original post) to the editorial staff this week and it was very cool.

Klaus teaches at SVA in New York City and I'm more than just a bit envious of his students. In this class, Klaus taught us about all the different shots (camera angles, if you will) used in comics, what each is most effective in conveying and which are most important. We also looked at and critiqued some published work. Going the critical route definitely changes the way you look at a comic and the artist.

Oh and Klaus finds some, if not all, mullets to be disconcerting. I find them to be a bit mysterious, myself, but all in all I learned a helluva lot.

The meeting I sat in on was another big Editorial jamboree. The editors get along well and there's always plenty of ribbing and interplay between the staff. The coolest part of the meeting was hearing pitches for new comics and everyone's reactions. Some got the thumbs up, some didn't.

That's about it for now. Enjoy the Immortal Iron Fist #3 preview I got from IIF editors Warren Simons and Alejandro Arbona!

art
david aja's art is freaking awesome!

Posted by daredevil42069 on 2007-01-26 12:35:09

take
yo i'm the new member

Posted by jonys on 2007-01-26 23:18:06

take
wus you'er fayvit video game

Posted by jonys on 2007-01-26 23:20:33

transformers

Posted by ultimate_venom! on 2007-01-28 12:21:29

ok
iron fist is kickass,period.

Posted by tarhaun on 2007-01-28 13:58:01

aaargh
incredible

Posted by notapotatoe on 2007-01-30 10:26:50

civil war
anyone think they should make a marvel civil war game? i think that'd be pretty cool

Posted by ddfan687 on 2007-01-31 19:17:03

Nice
Art just keep getting better. No surprise there.

Can't wait for this.

Posted by wicked_garden on 2007-02-03 18:01:34

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