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This is a wonderful film! I had the fortune of working with Alex when I was a young layout artist working at Hanna Barbera Productions from 1977--80. I drew full-sized layout drawings working off of his storybards for the "Superfriends" series. Alex worked at home, but would occasionally stop by and walk through our layout department and ask, "...are my boards helpfull to you guys?" Of course they were! Alex was the king to us and we all loved his drawing and spectacular staging and compositions. I spent many hours going through the H&B model department file cabinets studying his designs. I learned a lot about drawing head turns from his model sheets, which I kept pinned up by my drawing board. On one occassion, I had the fortune of having a drink with him at a bar along with my late-friend and mentor Moe Gollub (another master draughtsman from the Golden Age of comics). I appreciate that I was able to be part of that era and to have known Mr. Toth --Mark
Cmon!!! I didn’t expect to be weeping like a baby for an Alex Toth autobiography😭😭😭 God, what a genius and REAL Artist! Beautiful work. RIP Mr. Toth 🙏🏾
How touching...how significant! Alex Toth is the real deal. The real comics died in the late 70s and Toth was one of the grandmasters. Today we have corporate rubbish that began in the 80's. Toth represents the ne plus ultra...the best form...the comics field has ever seen achieved.
A beautiful, touching bio. I teared up right along with his son. But seeing b&w stills of his artwork, the economy of light & shadow, his mastery of showing action & emotion with just a few strokes of his pen truly fascinated me. Of course I was familiar with the HB work he did when i was a kid, but it was through the Warren publications (Creepy, Eerie) that I got to experience his artistry as an artist & storyteller, and to notice his influence on current comic artists, most noticeably the French artist Moebius...one of my favorites. Thank you so much for putting this on YT.
Hadn’t seen this..this was great.. I worked in animation as a character designer…and now in film doing the same ..back in 1985 I started at Ruby and Spears the sister company to Hanna Barbera. Man I wished he was still there when I started.. I would have been able to just walk across the street and say hello ..My world was design not comics so I knew him as the character designer.. he set the mark for me how to design in simple shapes.. between him and Kirby both whom i never got to meet..my foundation , my rudiments come from them..,again…this was great ..thank you…
Happy birthday to the late, great Alex Toth! He would've turned 94 today (were it not for his death in 2006 at the age of 77)! May he continue to rest in peace...he is still missed!
The only things I would've liked to have seen/commented upon, was Toth's desire to work in film, to storyboard movies. Also, his work on a couple of films, as a storyboard artist and designer, namely PROJECT X (the one done in the mid-60's) and THE ANGRY RED PLANET (which we interviewed him about back in the early 80's. I treasure the 3 original boards of his I have from that film; they are so cleanly and precisely done! Too bad most of the rest of them have disappeared. (Also, didn't he design and illustrate a comic done entirely in "widescreen" panels, a kind of CinemaComicScope, in the early 50's/mid-50's? It's just a dim memory, but i swear it was Toth who invented that format (Kirby later did another version of this idea called The Wide-Angle Scream, for Harvey's THE FLY.
This is so beautiful and inspiring so many lessons to learned not just from a artistic perspective this made me love Paul Pope even more to see how affected he was by toth Just broke my heart but I'm glad he took the positive from it cuz I'm pretty sure Alex didn't mean to hurt him I think the bottom line is Alex wants to teach you something and he doesn't want you to get anything misconstrued and he'll drill it in aggressively but he means the best unfortunately at times it would be at the cost of your feelings It must have been fate that I stumbled upon Paul Pope's battling boy and I loved it because of the art how amazing is that that I stumbled upon his inspiration Alex toth an artist whose art I loved and didn't know the name of the artist till now
i somehow got it into my head that Toth wasn't into letter-writing, replying etc. So, I never followed up (beyond a single interview) with him. A shame/kicking myself. I do have a couple original pieces of his that I really enjoy, a couple of his storyboards for THE ANGRY RED PLANET, (tho I now seem to be mysteriously missing a few of them!) . Great artist! Thanks for sharing this.
