Comics Interview — Issue #097

Main Topics: The Rocketeer film adaptation, good girl art and pinup illustration history, Gene Colan's Marvel and DC career retrospective

Contents
  1. Dave Stevens
  2. Gene Colan & Adrienne Colan
  3. "Up Front: DAK Goes Bats" (David Anthony Kraft)
  4. Letters: The Last Word
interview Dave Stevens
Interviewed by Jeff Gelb
Dave Stevens Writer/Artist, Freelance Working on: *The Rocketeer* (Dark Horse comic); *The Rocketeer* (Disney film, co-producer)
Stevens discusses his role as co-producer on Disney's The Rocketeer film, covering the seven-year development process, the choice of director Joe Johnston, and the faithfulness of the adaptation to his original comic. He also talks extensively about his history in storyboard work (including Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Michael Jackson Thriller video), his love of good girl art and painters like Gil Elvgren and Robert McGinnis, and his plans to shift toward writing and film work rather than continuing as a comic-book artist.
interview Gene Colan & Adrienne Colan
Interviewed by David Hamilton
Gene Colan Artist, Freelance Working on: Career retrospective; teaching "Art of Comic-Book Drawing" class (Part 3 of 3)
Adrienne Colan —, — Working on: —
Part 3 of an ongoing retrospective interview in which Colan recalls his efforts to break into film storyboarding (aided by neighbor Sigourney Weaver), his brief encounter with Roger Corman, and free-association memories of working with Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Archie Goodwin, Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, and Harlan Ellison. Adrienne Colan is briefly interviewed about her background in the arts and her role in encouraging Gene's career when he was forced out of comics and working below his abilities.
article "Up Front: DAK Goes Bats" (David Anthony Kraft)
Editorial musing on the upcoming Batman II film and the Rocketeer movie, speculating whether Warner Bros. might adapt The Dark Knight as a bold sequel.
article Letters: The Last Word
Features a note from Neal Adams correcting a misconception in a prior Tom Lyle interview about Robin's hair design; a sharp letter from Kim Thompson (Fantagraphics) criticizing DAK's editorial rebuttal of Chester Brown's dismissal of superhero comics; and a spirited defense of superhero comics from reader Clif Langlois.