Comments on: Moon Link http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/499 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:45:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charles Vess http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/499/comment-page-1#comment-462 Charles Vess Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:13:05 +0000 http://greenmanpress.com/news/?p=499#comment-462 Hello everyone! I wanted to let you know I had my first store appearance for "Drawing Down the Moon" at the amazing Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville, NC last night and it was great! Everyone there was super supportive. Thanks to everyone who showed up in spite of the extreme drop in temperatures. Here's a tip of the hat to Gina Moon and company for everything. Malaprop's has ordered plenty of copies of the book, and now you can mail order an autographed copy of "Drawing" from them by calling 1-800-441-9829, or visiting http://www.malaprops.com and get it in time for Christmas! Grazie, grazie. Charles Hello everyone!
I wanted to let you know I had my first store appearance for “Drawing Down the Moon” at the amazing Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, NC last night and it was great! Everyone there was super supportive. Thanks to everyone who showed up in spite of the extreme drop in temperatures. Here’s a tip of the hat to Gina Moon and company for everything. Malaprop’s has ordered plenty of copies of the book, and now you can mail order an autographed copy of “Drawing” from them by calling 1-800-441-9829, or visiting
http://www.malaprops.com
and get it in time for Christmas!
Grazie, grazie.
Charles

]]> By: warble http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/499/comment-page-1#comment-456 warble Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:28:27 +0000 http://greenmanpress.com/news/?p=499#comment-456 Charles, what an awesome body of work! A book like this should been a long time ago. Lord knows, there are artists publishing art books way too soon! Love it. Charles, what an awesome body of work! A book like this should been a long time ago. Lord knows, there are artists publishing art books way too soon! Love it.

]]> By: OMNIVESS http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/499/comment-page-1#comment-454 OMNIVESS Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:20:15 +0000 http://greenmanpress.com/news/?p=499#comment-454 Hello, Mr. Vess. Big fan here. If I'm not mistaken, in your Dark Horse artbook, only 8 meager pages are devoted to your entire Marvel period (from 36 to 43). I say meager because that was your most productive period at drawing and writing comics. According to this exhaustive bibliography: http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/namv4.htm#N404 You drew about 350 pages of comics for Marvel, plus 29 covers and several pin-ups and illustrations. Of those 350 pages, 218 were also written by you. Aside from those, you also wrote the 78 pages of the Hook movie adaptation and co-wrote the 192 pages of the Prince Valiant revival with Elaine Lee. Finally, you also inked and colored most of your stuff and some pages from other artists. Now, how much of that material has been reprinted and is therefore available in the current market? As far as I know, 4 pages from Kull the Conqueror #4 were reprinted by Dark Horse in "The Chronicles of Kull Volume 1" and your 13-page Dr. Strange story from Marvel Fanfare #6, was reprinted last year in the trade "Marvel Fanfare: Strange Tales". And that's it, 17 pages out of 350, and certainly not the most interesting or important ones of your Marvel output. So, here's an idea: art books are ok, but I'm sure everybody would be much more excited about a book reprinting all that stuff for the first time since its original publication. You probably know that Marvel has been pushing an aggresive reprint program in the last few years (with 30 or even 40 collections a month), including some massive oversized books under the name omnibus that reprint historically important runs of certain books and/or authors. So how about one of these massive books collecting your entire Marvel production? An artist-centric, done-in-one Charles Vess Marvel Omnibus. Something like this (taking Marvel's solicitations usual template): CHARLES VESS OMNIBUS HC Written by CHARLES VESS, ALAN ZELENETZ, LAURIE S. SUTTON, ELAINE LEE, ROGER STERN, RANDALL FRENZ & BILL MANTLO Penciled by CHARLES VESS Cover by CHARLES VESS Collecting SPIDER-MAN: SPIRITS OF THE EARTH GN (MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #63) THE RAVEN BANNER GN (MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #15) MARVEL FANFARE #6,13,34-37 EPIC ILLUSTRATED #5,8-10,16,21-22,24,27 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #277 THOR #400 HOOK THE MOVIE #1-4 HEROES FOR HOPE STARRING X-MEN (2 PAGES) & GALLERY OF ASSORTED COVERS AND PIN-UPS 500 PGS./Parental Advisory …$70.00 Trim size: oversized So what do you think? Would you be interested in pitching this idea to Marvel? I'd certainly buy such a magnificent book. Hello, Mr. Vess. Big fan here. If I’m not mistaken, in your Dark Horse artbook, only 8 meager pages are devoted to your entire Marvel period (from 36 to 43). I say meager because that was your most productive period at drawing and writing comics.

According to this exhaustive bibliography:
http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/namv4.htm#N404
You drew about 350 pages of comics for Marvel, plus 29 covers and several pin-ups and illustrations. Of those 350 pages, 218 were also written by you. Aside from those, you also wrote the 78 pages of the Hook movie adaptation and co-wrote the 192 pages of the Prince Valiant revival with Elaine Lee. Finally, you also inked and colored most of your stuff and some pages from other artists.

Now, how much of that material has been reprinted and is therefore available in the current market?
As far as I know, 4 pages from Kull the Conqueror #4 were reprinted by Dark Horse in “The Chronicles of Kull Volume 1″ and your 13-page Dr. Strange story from Marvel Fanfare #6, was reprinted last year in the trade “Marvel Fanfare: Strange Tales”.

And that’s it, 17 pages out of 350, and certainly not the most interesting or important ones of your Marvel output.

So, here’s an idea: art books are ok, but I’m sure everybody would be much more excited about a book reprinting all that stuff for the first time since its original publication.

You probably know that Marvel has been pushing an aggresive reprint program in the last few years (with 30 or even 40 collections a month), including some massive oversized books under the name omnibus that reprint historically important runs of certain books and/or authors. So how about one of these massive books collecting your entire Marvel production? An artist-centric, done-in-one Charles Vess Marvel Omnibus. Something like this (taking Marvel’s solicitations usual template):

CHARLES VESS OMNIBUS HC
Written by CHARLES VESS, ALAN ZELENETZ, LAURIE S. SUTTON, ELAINE LEE, ROGER STERN, RANDALL FRENZ & BILL MANTLO
Penciled by CHARLES VESS
Cover by CHARLES VESS

Collecting
SPIDER-MAN: SPIRITS OF THE EARTH GN (MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #63)
THE RAVEN BANNER GN (MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #15)
MARVEL FANFARE #6,13,34-37
EPIC ILLUSTRATED #5,8-10,16,21-22,24,27
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #277
THOR #400
HOOK THE MOVIE #1-4
HEROES FOR HOPE STARRING X-MEN (2 PAGES)
& GALLERY OF ASSORTED COVERS AND PIN-UPS
500 PGS./Parental Advisory …$70.00
Trim size: oversized

So what do you think? Would you be interested in pitching this idea to Marvel? I’d certainly buy such a magnificent book.

]]> By: dogeatdoug http://greenmanpress.com/news/archives/499/comment-page-1#comment-447 dogeatdoug Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:15:10 +0000 http://greenmanpress.com/news/?p=499#comment-447 I'll wait as long as it takes. I’ll wait as long as it takes.

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