The video channel of Noah Van Sciver; cartoonist, illustrator, graphic novelist, award and accolade collector. ----------------------------------------------------------
Dear Noah and Ivan, I love this episode and rewatch it regularly. I have gone through a ‘sobering’ periode concerning my own cartooning and it’s great to hear you talk about comics from a non-commercial point of view. I draw solely for recreationel reasons after years of knocking myself on the head for lack of success. I’M living the dream!
I have two porcelain signs they measure fifteen inches one is of Charlie and the other is Lucy and both have a square Wood block with a bolt I assume they hung on something but I've researched and researched and researched and I can't find anything about them. They're old and not reproductions but I'm having to research them like this maybe someone with peanuts knowledge have any idea about them. I did have a guy who collects enamel signs and he said that they're reproductions because his and Lucy's clothes are the dark reddish color and they're not his yellow color but wanted to buy them and offered me $20 each but I thought about it and then he said I'll go $50 but I can't pay anything higher but it got me thinking the man hated reproduction signs but yet he wanted these two he kept insisting no one's going to buy them but has anyone ever come across any?
Nice! I would be curious to know if you have any recommendations for learning figures/anatomy/gestures. How did you learn? I feel copying other artists work only gets you so far.
O where is the next Blammo? Just kidding, it’ll be here when it gets here. I am glad you kept going even while feeling sick and you put so much work and thought into it.
Man I love that we live in a day were we can finally see some of our favorite artists in live action. Used to dream about this reading interviews in animation magazine and comics journal, etc.
I’m listening to this in my raw Santa Fe habitat where I make my dinosaur art. I don’t have heat but I do have electricity and proper toilet! As far as threatening biological organisms, before this episode cued up, my cat chased a 10” centipede under my kick drum so my anxiety is peaking. I tried to get cat to kill centipede but he lost interest when it disappeared under drum. During Covid skunks would enter my building and steal cat food. Coons too! Im convinced I met Mr. Bissette at a comic convention in 1986 in Erie, PA but Google produces no results when I search for info on this con. I had that final Alan Moore Swamp Thing signed by him but that issue mysteriously vanished from my collection so I question if it happened or not. I do know SRB did not contribute to that issue. I just preordered the Kino Republic Pictures Horror collection that Steve contributes to. Im also a Bigfoot fan boy much like Steve. His life and interests line up with me in mysterious ways and it all goes back to being 13 yrs old at my 1st convention that the internet is trying to convince me never happened. Other guests at con: Vince Locke who signed my Deadworld #1 and Doug Wildey who signed my Comico Johnny Quest poster. Both of these I still own. A piece I don’t own is my signed 8x10 of Star Trek’s Chekov. My mom ripped it off my wall after I was caught shoplifting at Hills Department Store a year later. Anyway, I gotta go find and kill a centipede so I can sleep tonight. Love you, Steve!
Carl Barks is amazing, but Alec Longstreth is insufferable. Spends way too much time tearing his hair out about alleged racism and reading Barks' work "responsibly." Neurotic Liberalism at is worst. Your kids wont become racist just because they read "Tralla La."
I LOVE Hall of Best Knowledge!! I bought it when I still lived in Brazil and I'd show it to my friends and geek about his incredible lettering and style.
Wasn't Funny Garbage the company that was hired to make the CNN 9/11 Victim Memorial? That's super weird, I didn't know they started out as Gary Panter fans. I looked up John Carlin and he's also a cartoon author himself, besides being a news guy, since he wrote the graphic novel about one of his favorite topics: Nelson Mandela!
WATTA TREAT!!! Always dug all the RAW/Jimbo stuff, and grabbed any and all "Playhouse" stuff (every Allred is a massive Pee Wee fan)! One of our fave family treasures is an unopened (we also have a couple opened for play) Playhouse box that Gary drew ALL OVER when we asked him to sign it at ComiCon (where we bought it and there he was!) in 1995! Interviews like this always get me excited about treasure hunting. Panter-Mania!
As a former student of Gary I can say he is delightful. I would often pull up a seat next to him near the end of class and we would talk about living in the south and drawing armadillos. It’s too bad people have taken advantage of his openness and now I see why he’s so grumpy on the internet. Respect peoples boundaries!
To answer Noah's question about Panter's current popularity in Japan: I'd say he's read as much or more so than the Japanese artists he mentions (Terry Johnson and co.) I've seen his books at Taco che in Nakano as well as more artsy, hip traditional books stores in Aoyama
