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Jozef Brandt
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I can't remember if I told this story here or not. When I was growing up in the 80s, the art teacher at my middle school had us all bring in artwork from our favorite artists. Kids brought in posters of Starry Night, or Monet, etc. I brought in FF #258 and the first volume of the softback Elf Quest compilations.
My teacher was someone who over first few weeks of school had somewhat talked down about illustration and had discounted comic books. I'm not sure if I ever fully changed her mind, but she admitted that the cover of FF 258 was an interesting idea. (I imitated it once by drawing a torn painting of a farm setting that had robots shooting each other underneath) and by the end of the school year, she'd borrowed all 4 volumes of Elf Quest (there were only 4 at the time) because she got into the story haha.
Congrats again JB!
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James Woodcock
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Congratulations on this. Very well deserved. And that’s a fantastic story
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Mike Benson
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| Posted: 06 October 2025 at 12:03am | IP Logged | 3
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Congratulations!
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Kevin Ricci
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Well deserved - congratulations!
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Petter Myhr Ness
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| Posted: 06 October 2025 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | 5
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Congratulations, JB - much deserved.
And Will Eisner was right - you're a master storyteller.
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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 06 October 2025 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | 6
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Congratulations, JB!
You’re also the recipient of Wallace’s Favorite Comic Book Creator Award, though I realize that particular recognition doesn’t carry the same weight as a Harvey Hall of Fame induction.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 07 October 2025 at 12:08am | IP Logged | 7
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You’re also the recipient of Wallace’s Favorite Comic Book Creator Award, though I realize that particular recognition doesn’t carry the same weight as a Harvey Hall of Fame induction.••• If anything, Wallace, it carries more. Not to throw shade on the Harvey Awards, but since the earliest days of my career the heartfelt endorsements of individual fans have meant the most to me.
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Casey Sager
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It did not go unnoticed by this young fan reading The Art of John Byrne where you mentioned something like fan letters meant more to you than the paycheck you received and then you joking that Shooter was now going to pay you in LOC's.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Weird to say this considering how talented across the board you have always been, JB, but for me, one of the very coolest things you ever did was "A Flame About This High," which was the can't-be-missed dessert to the Next Men's main course. The interaction and engagement with the fans was unlike anything else I'd seen, and made me feel like I belonged, somehow - even moreso than the old AOL boards did, all those years ago.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 October 2025 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | 10
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“A Flame About THIS High” was a lot of fun, and very much a precursor to this Forum.
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Paul Wills
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I'm late this party but congrats! Well deserved!
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Wallace Sellars
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John Byrne wrote:
| “A Flame About THIS High” was a lot of fun, and very much a precursor to this Forum. |
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Reading installments of “A Flame About THIS High” was always a treat. I’m headed home home to NC tomorrow, and now plan to pull out individual issues of JBNM just to reread some of those final pages! (I wish I had the patience to scan them all in order to create a compleat *ahem* easy-to-read PDF for myself.)
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