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Dale Gonsalves Byrne Robotics Member
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I want to see a boo with Ed's DC covers designs and comments
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Edited by Dale Gonsalves on 16 January 2010 at 3:39pm
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Andrew W. Farago Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 January 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged | 2
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For those of you Hannigan fans who'll be in San Francisco between February and June: Ed Hannigan: Covered
Presented by The Cartoon Art Museum and The Hero Initiative
Cartoon Art Museum exhibition: February 13 – June 20, 2010
Reception and Charity Auction: April 2, 2010
The Cartoon Art Museum and the Hero Initiative proudly present Ed Hannigan: Covered, a retrospective exhibition celebrating the art of Ed Hannigan. This retrospective features a selection of covers and original artwork created by Hannigan for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, including such popular characters as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and The Defenders.
Today, Hannigan is 58 years old and has multiple sclerosis. The Hero Initiative, a charitable organization that provides financial assistance to comic book professionals in need, and Marvel Comics have collaborated on a tribute book, Ed Hannigan: Covered, that features highlights from Hannigan’s artistic career. The Cartoon Art Museum will display some of Hannigan’s most notable covers alongside the cover and complete interior artwork for one of his most famous single-issue stories, The Spectacular Spider-Man #64, which introduced the crime-fighting duo Cloak and Dagger.
Sponsorship for this exhibition has been provided by The Comic Outpost. The Comic Outpost, located on 2381 Ocean Ave. San Francisco, CA has been fulfilling the needs of comic book lovers for well over 15 years. Current owners Gary Buechler and Roger Yan firmly believe their customer service and subscriber program is second to none. For more questions, visit their website at www.comicoutpost.net or call (415) 239-2669.
SAVE THE DATE: An auction of original artwork will be held at the Cartoon Art Museum onFriday, April 2, 2010, in conjunction with San Francisco’s WonderCon comics convention.
About Ed Hannigan
Ed was born August 6, 1951 in Newport, Rhode Island, the first of what would become eight children. His dad was an officer in the U.S. Navy, and later an engineer/sales executive for Tidewater Oil (later to become Getty Oil). He grew up throughout the Northeast, where his grandmother used to give him comic books. With their help, he learned to read at a young age, particularly impressed with World's Finest, featuring Superman and Batman.
Ed soon became a Marvel fanatic, and was determined to draw comic books some day. In high school in Ashland, Massachusetts he practiced drawing constantly and produced comics of his own. He also illustrated the senior yearbook. In 1971, after moving to New Jersey, he managed to wrangle an invitation to visit Marvel Comics’ offices. He showed his art samples to the folks there—Marie Severin, Mike Esposito, Herb Trimpe and others. They were polite, but less than impressed. But he still kept coming around. Then one day Sol Brodsky needed someone to do some lettering corrections on the British weekly reprint series, Mighty World of Marvel. Ed volunteered and for a short while, became a letterer.
Sol then needed someone to do some zip-a-tone shading on the same reprint line. Ed and Klaus Janson took on that job and were friendly rivals for a while as they shaded photostats of old Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Thor stories. But Ed did not give up on drawing comics, practicing and learning from the pros at Marvel. Eventually he was allowed to do some sketches for those same British reprints and finally was given a Planet of the Apes cover to draw. After that he started helping Art Director John Romita to design covers for other artists and occasionally himself to draw. He also illustrated some stories. By and by, Ed became the busiest comic cover sketch artist in the place. At one time or another he did cover designs for just about every comic in the line.
Ed tried to tailor cover designs to the style of whichever artist was going to do the final art, but he also introduced some trademark features of his own, most famously, "messing with the logo" in some way or another, destroying or distorting it. The sketches became more elaborate and often were fully colored. He continued to draw some stories ands even wrote a few (Defenders was his longest run), but cover sketches were his mainstay for the next several years, and that's what he is best known for in the industry.
When the comics business contracted in the early 1990s, Ed was forced to find other employment. He end up doing computer graphics for a publisher in Massachusetts for nine years. In the course of those years, he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, which at first was a minor annoyance, but soon progressed to a major disability. He now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.
About The Hero Initative
The Hero Initiative is the first-ever federally chartered not-for-profit corporation dedicated strict to helping comic book creators in need. Hero creates a financial safety net for yesterday’s creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. It’s a chance for all of us to give back something to the people who have given us so much enjoyment.
Since its inception, The Hero Initiative has had the good fortune to grant over $400,000 to the comic book veterans who have paved the way for those in the industry today. For more information, visit www.heroinitiative.org or call 626-676-6354.
About the Cartoon Art Museum
Founded in 1984, the Cartoon Art Museum is the only museum in the western United States dedicated to cartoons and comics. The Museum was started by a group of cartoonists and collectors who wanted to share their appreciation of this unique art form with the rest of the world. The Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation, study and exhibition of original cartoon art in all forms to benefit historians, cartoonists, journalists, artists, collectors and the general public.
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Ari Shapiro Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 January 2010 at 7:06am | IP Logged | 3
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I'm getting one
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John Peter Britton Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 January 2010 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | 4
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Real fine artist!
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Flavio Sapha Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 January 2010 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | 5
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Whenever I hear of Hannigan, I think of this cover.
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Joel Tesch Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 January 2010 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | 6
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Hannigan is amazing. So many of my favorite covers are his! I'll definitely be getting this book...and checking out the Cartoon Art Museum exhibit in February!
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William Roberge Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 January 2010 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | 7
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Great Guy and fellow New Hampshireite. He did this Sketch for me back in '08....
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Andrew W. Farago Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 1:15am | IP Logged | 8
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William--sorry we couldn't fit your sketch into the CAM exhibition, but Ed is actually loaning us a ton of great cover roughs, plus we'll be showing the cover and all interior pages from Spectacular Spider-Man 64, so we're pressed for space. Should be a great show, and I'm hoping that our charity auction in April raises a lot of money for Ed.
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William Roberge Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 4:49am | IP Logged | 9
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No problem Andrew. Good luck with the auction!
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Tony Tower Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 18 January 2010 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | 10
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I will definitely be picking this up when I next get to the comics store. Great covers. And seconding how nice a guy Ed is. My team and I were up visiting him weekend before last, shooting an interview for The Hero Initiative. Our raw material will get worked into future HERO pitch reels - I believe they're also cutting something specifically for the San Fran exhibit, too. Ed was very personable and upbeat, and had many great anecdotes to share.
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Andrew W. Farago Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 19 January 2010 at 12:52am | IP Logged | 11
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Tony--drop me an e-mail at gallery@cartoonart.org if you want to touch base on video stuff. If we can get a DVD with any of that material, we'll be happy to play it on our wall-mounted TV during Ed's exhibition.
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Arc Carlton Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 19 January 2010 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | 12
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Whenever I hear of Hannigan, I think of this cover. _________________________ I have that issue. I've always enjoyed his work.
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