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As I recall, there was an unexpected scheduling conflict.

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Sure, just like real bookstores!

The comicbook industry is in deep trouble. . .   why?

It didn't help that a lot of what he was showing us looked more like paintings than drawings. In those days, there was not a lot of strong definition between departments at ACA.

By the time I started my second year there, tho, I had been drawn back into comics, was actively pursuing a career in the Biz, and was learning more and more about the Process. And one of the most important things I learned was that it doesn't matter WHAT an artist uses to create the images. All that matters is what those images look like when printed.

I totally agree and understand what you're sayng, but the funny thing is the printing back then made the lines so muddy!

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Sure, but most artists new that, and compensated for it.

{Terry Austin famously took advantage of it when, as a joke, I penciled Storm emerging from her shower, wrapping herself in a bathrobe, but with one breast still exposed. Terry inked it as I drew it, and laid a coarse zipatone on top. The various editors freaked out, but Terry assured them the printing would close up the zip he'd used. And it did. At least, until a few decades later, when the book got better printing in a reprint edition!)