I thought a lot of folks here might be interested in listening to this Sal Buscema podcast over on the  "Spider-Man Crawl Space" site. 

It's a celebration of Sal's 40th anniversary in the comic book industry. During the interview, a number of special guests call in, including Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, Danny Fingeroth and even Stan Lee himself! I haven't finished listening to the entire interview, but it's worth a listen. It's remarkable how humble Sal Buscema is, given his incredible body of work.

You old-school Marvel fans will enjoy listening to one of the all-time greats discuss his career.

Vinny, I believe Sal said he started in 1968. But they didn't get the interview scheduled until early 2009 - close enough!

   I'd love to read a biography of Sal's life.  The man appears to be the epitome of "working man".  He just did his job without much complaint (if any), no matter how overshadowed he seems to have become by such figures as Jack Kirby, Dick Giordano and his older brother John.  he was a workhorse, but he was a damned good workhorse at that.

   If people had the work ethic that the Buscema brothers shared and JB and the younger John Romita still demonstrate, maybe we'd be seeing a lot more (and perhaps better) efforts from some of the "hot" young artists of the past two decades...

Sal is The Man!

I've been ordering a ton of old back issues of late from around 1976-81... a lot of stuff I used to own and haven't seen in eons... and Sal Buscema is ALL OVER these old Marvel issues.  The guy's fantastic... MARVEL TEAM-UP, CAPTAIN AMERICA, FANTASTIC FOUR, INCREDIBLE HULK, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, etc.  Much like Jack Kirby and Sal's big brother John, the man simply IS Marvel Comics to me.

I just have to laugh that this guy apparently drew every other comic I ever owned in my youth!

I'm a friend of Brad Douglas, the webmaster of that website, and a HUGE Sal Buscema fan and I've posted a transcript of the first hour of the show on my website here:

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/Entertaining/buscemapodcast.html

(shameless plug...I know!)

I'm currently working on the 2nd and 3rd parts of the show, which will be posted later. 

I was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Sal during that podcast and he's as nice as everyone says.  An absolute gentleman!  He has seen my website, which features Spider-Man art by him in my logos, headers, etc., and, to me, the fact that he checked it out is just the most phenomenal thing ever.

If you'd rather read what they sais as opposed to listen to it, visit the above link...enjoy.

Sebastien

Listened to the interview last night... good, interesting stuff.  The ironic "I hate you; you were never any good; you always missed your deadlines" schtick got extremely tiresome after awhile, but most of these guys (Buscema, Lee, Thomas, Frenz, DeFalco, Fingeroth) seemed to have a general affection for each other. 

For someone like myself who almost never attended comic book conventions growing up (at least with noted guests-of-honor), it's great to be able to actually hear these guys and their stories.

(And I can't be the only guy who thinks Roy Thomas sounds like John Denver, can I?)