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Peter Hicks
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| Posted: August 08 2024 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | 1
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“Just did some quick, conservative math, and my output for fifty years at the board works out to more than 30,000 pages and covers. Allowing for downtime, I gave each year 11 months, and restricted those months to 22 working days, ignoring the many years that I worked 7 days a week. I also calculated at slightly less than my normal production rate of three pages a day. ************************** The database at the website below lists JB as the #5 penciller of all time, based on total pages.
Before you look, try and guess who is places 1-4!
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/creator.php?p age=topcreators
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: August 08 2024 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | 2
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Happy retirement anniversary.
What a career!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: August 08 2024 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | 3
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That list works out to a career average of about 16 issues per year, less than one and a half titles.
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Richard Stevens
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| Posted: August 08 2024 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | 4
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So, about 8x the monthly output of the average hot 90s artist.
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Paul Wills
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| Posted: August 08 2024 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | 5
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and to think, JB never fully realized his 'MAD' magazine style art!
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Joseph Gauthier
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| Posted: August 08 2024 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | 6
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(It's bad enough I turned 50 on the same day that Olivia Newton-John died... then I find out, after the fact, that it's the same day John Byrne retired!!).......................................
Not only that, but I think I also heard that after years without comment, the mysterious Scandinavian inker Bjorn Heyn officially retired on the exact same day. But seriously, what a career! And I retrospect, I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone other than the really central figures of Marvel's first generation of talent to have had such a significant (positive) impact on the Marvel story! How lucky are we to have had the opportunity to enjoy it?!
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Brian Miller
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JB never fully realized his 'MAD' magazine style art!
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WHAT TH’? doesn’t count?
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Wilson Mui
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I imagine you have a lot of storylines in your head. Have
you ever considered writing the scripts and having someone
else do the art?
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Matt Hawes
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| Posted: August 09 2024 at 6:29am | IP Logged | 9
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JB" "...One of my reasons to opt for retirement was feeling I wasn’t really at the top anymore...."
In all sincerity, the work you did on X-Men Elsewhen was, I feel, some of the best drawings you had produced. It seemed to me that there was a renewed excitement in the work.
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Francesco Consoli
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| Posted: August 09 2024 at 11:23am | IP Logged | 10
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What Matt said!
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John Byrne
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It seemed to me that there was a renewed excitement in the work. ••• Mind reading? Ugh!!
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: August 09 2024 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | 12
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JB, how do you manage to avoid a daily routine?
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