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SHOW NOTES:
- Erik Larsen on Twitter and savagedragon.com
- More on (the other) Eric Larson, animator and one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men”
- 1,000 True Fans
- Erik’s distinctive grip:
- Courtesy of Erik, a photo from the TV appearance we discussed, where he drew the host as a superhero, on an easel holding the pen in a “traditional” fashion:
- An example of Erik-as-troublemaker: The letter Erik wrote to the Comics Buyer’s Guide under the moniker “Name Withheld”.
- Rob Liefeld’s ad for The Executioners, the “first shot” in the formation of Image Comics:
- Footage from a CNN piece on the formation of Image Comics (with a young Erik Larsen):
- Graphic Fantasy, where Erik started his long career with The (Savage) Dragon:
- An Erik Larsen SAVAGE DRAGON “experiment issue” Checklist:
#7 – all splash pages
#30-31 – final page of 30 connects to first page of 31 creating a double-page spread (#31 also features God vs. The Devil)
#87 – inked with a simple dead line weight
#104 – comic strip format
#113 – starts with 20 panels on page one with each new page having one less panel until the final splash page
#125 – contains “The Fly”, 23 pages of six panels each of the same image, a bandaged Dragon (also includes a Chris Giarrusso “Comic Bits” strip in the same format)
#144 – one panel = one day, 121 days in a row
#185 – 10 panels per page
#187 – six panel grid and flat coloring (no shading) throughout - The Savage Dragon Cartoon intro:
- Dramatic Irony
- The perspective-issue-laden cover to Action Comics #1 (of particular note, the car, coming slightly forward, is smashing into the rock which is set farther back (based on shadows, the fella on the ground, etc):
- This is what Larsen drew when talking about Steve Ditko’s approach to Spider-Man’s costume webbing – the switches happen on the shoulder and at the elbow:
- My fake ad for AVENGERS #1 1/2
- Erik’s two issues of HULK:
- “Stuff Said Theme” by Craig Chin (also on Soundcloud)
- Other music: “She is Staggering (instrumental)” by Polaris, “I Yam What I Yam” by Harry Nilsson, “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” by Eydie Gorme
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Awesome stuff, one of the funiest and honest interviews i heard for a looooooong time. 😀
Go Erik !!!!
Thank you so much, so glad you dug it. Go Maarten!
Feel free to check out past episodes, which I’d like to think are pretty good, too.
will do !!! =)
this was a really great episode.
erik is so open and honest about everything.
he was one of the artist i imitated back when he was at marvel, and was the reason i read spider-man.
later when i was doing submissions to image and he was editor he gave me a ton of really great advice that completely changed how i look at my work. one of the guys working that respect the most.
that’s a really hard working and dedicated creator.
hats off to him.
Thanks so much for listening; I’m glad you enjoyed it.