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Gerry McDade
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Hi JB,Comic Link recently auctioned the original art from page 26 of Uncanny X-Men #113. Unfortunately, I was unable to win it, not only because of the beautiful art on the front of the page, but because there appeared to be two full body pencil sketches of who appear to be Margali and Jimaine Szardoz. I know this page was originally published 2 years prior to those characters' first appearance in Uncanny X-Men Annual #4. Can you and would you be willing to tell me more about these sketches? They appear to be your work, and they are painfully beautiful. Were they intended as character designs for those characters? Were they intended for another purpose? 
Thank you for your time!
Edited by Gerry McDade on 31 May 2014 at 6:08pm
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John Byrne
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Those were doodles, not meant to be specific characters. Sorry!
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Stephen Churay
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Those are beautiful JB!
IIRC, another JB was famous for putting doodles and sketches on the
back of his pages as well. I've heard that the drawing on the back has
actually raised the price of a Buscema page more so than what was
on the front.
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Mark Haslett
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Well that's a weird coincidence.
Here's the JR JR drawn first appearance of Margali
And a Nowlan page with both characters
This Jimaine Szardoz character turned out to be the real identity of Kurt Wagner's girlfriend Amanda...
the same girlfriend that Arcade tied up without any trouble as he tried to murder Kurt, but whatever...
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Brian Hague
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That's not the only continuity glitch happening there, Mark. As I recall, at the end of that Dr. Strange story, Strange de-powers the two, turning them back into mortals, a development never mentioned or followed up in the X-Men titles.
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Carmen Bernardo
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I had both stories with their appearances on hand at one time. It seems that people in the Marvel offices must've seen JB's doodles and thought it would be a neat thing to bring them to life, so to speak.
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John Byrne
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First time I've seen those characters. It's not inconceivable that Chris made a xerox copy of the back-of-page doodles and gave them to JRjr and Nowlan as reference. Heck, he may even have asked me if he could do that. SO long ago, who remembers?
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Philippe Negrin
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Incredible drawings. I agree that these similarities can't have been coincidences.
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John Byrne
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Those are beautiful JB! +++ Incredible drawings •• You guys really like those? All I can see is how FAR I still had to go!!
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Philippe Negrin
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In those early days, your style had a - how could I put it ? a sort of delightful liquid organic charm. And what about that detailed eye on the right ?
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Doug Centers
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JB if there are anymore "doodles" like that you have floating around that you believe are below your standards I will gladly take them off your hands for you.Your females are stunning in any era.
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John Byrne
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…the same girlfriend that Arcade tied up without any trouble as he tried to murder Kurt, but whatever...•• Do NOT get me started!!
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