A month or so ago I saw black & white Xeroxes of all the pages, and boy it looks real good. It’s pretty recent, I think it’s in the last week or two. Any idea when?ī Somebody told me it’s out. T The DC Benefit book is coming out soon.

T One of the things that I found that is really nice is that in a lot of the dealer’s catalogs I get, they are still selling it for cover price, as opposed to ‘$20 for a Stephen King comic’. I would like to see some kind of report on this, just what kind of money this made. You know, one time only and make a lot of money. Kind of a collector’s item sort of thing. Somebody, I think it was Ann Nocenti, the editor, told me that the magazine Business Week named that comic book as one of the best small time investments of 1986, which is really …ī Yeah, that’s exactly what we wanted. Do you have any idea what the reaction has been to the benefit book?ī I really don’t know. T There’s a story in Heavy Metal of one man stalking another in the snow, and Kent makes it look real. T I’ve seen Kent’s stuff and it’s just beautiful.ī Yeah, Kent is just maybe the best watercolor artist I’ve ever seen.

I don’t really like to collaborate that much. Is there any particular artist that you admire that you would like to work with someday?ī Not especially. You’ve worked with Mike Kaluta and several others. I just try to concentrate on what I’m doing at the moment. T Is there anything in the back of your mind that you’ve always wanted to do that you haven’t had the chance to do yet?ī Nothing that comes to mind right now, although I’m sure there’s something. I’ve gotten very spoiled over the years, you know, just doing exactly what I feel like doing for so long. If I wasn’t happy with it I’d find something else to do. T Are you happy with what you are doing professionally?ī Oh sure, yeah. Are you content with what you are doing now? T I just saw you up at Ithacon with the other Studio artists, and you seemed very happy to me. It was really nice.ī Yeah, you can just have an open letter in one place that everybody can see, and just kind of share information.ī And you can send Xeroxes of work that you’ve collected and like that just to show. I wrote to several of these people and then Roger Hill got it all together. But it’s nice to have it all in one place.

I don’t know if all the collectors ever were able to exchange information and ideas through letters or phone calls. It’s wonderful for the collectors to have a forum like that. T You’ve seen our publication and I was wondering what you think of it?ī Oh I think it’s great. T As you know, this is for the CFA-APA, our fifth issue, which is dedicated to you.

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