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Carmine Infantino memorial thread
05 Apr 2013 14:37 #149691
by Juniper
Carmine Infantino memorial thread was created by Juniper
These two pages changed my life:
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05 Apr 2013 14:45 #149694
by Shellhead
Replied by Shellhead on topic Re: Carmine Infantino memorial thread
Did Infantino just die, too? A friend posted something about him in Facebook today. I was never a fan of Infantino's art, but he had a solid ability to tell stories with his pictures. I just thought that his grasp of anatomy and faces was a little off.
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05 Apr 2013 14:58 #149698
by Juniper
Replied by Juniper on topic Re: Carmine Infantino memorial thread
Strangely, the best obit piece I can find right now is at National Enquirer:
www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/comic...rmine-infantino-gone
www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/comic...rmine-infantino-gone
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05 Apr 2013 17:21 - 05 Apr 2013 17:24 #149730
by dragonstout
Replied by dragonstout on topic Re: Carmine Infantino memorial thread
He drew some of my favorite superhero comics as a kid, The Flash, Adam Strange, Batman, and Elongated Man (okay, Elongated Man was not a favorite, but I read it anyway). Flash was far and away my favorite of those. He had a beautifully clean and spare line, and that style was perfect for heroes that weren't big beefy muscular types, but lean, thin athletes. He's the primary artist I associate with silver age DC and their general house style: not dynamic, bombastic, or weird like Marvel, but quiet and with a lot of care and craft put into it (and its greater realism contrasted nicely with the super-weirdness of the plots).
Here's a pair of great appreciations of Carmine Infantino by Matt Seneca; probably my favorite things Matt Seneca ever wrote, actually:
deathtotheuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/infantinos-flash.html
robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/11/yo...1-carmine-infantino/
Here's a pair of great appreciations of Carmine Infantino by Matt Seneca; probably my favorite things Matt Seneca ever wrote, actually:
deathtotheuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/infantinos-flash.html
robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/11/yo...1-carmine-infantino/
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05 Apr 2013 19:53 #149744
by Michael Barnes
Replied by Michael Barnes on topic Re: Carmine Infantino memorial thread
Oh wow, I was just looking at a Infantino book I bought directly from him a couple of years ago at Dragon Con. My wife didn't know who he was, and I actually didn't know he was a guest. We went up to him and he and my wife started talking about architecture since she really liked his drawings of cityscapes and buildings. He was really kind, very gracious, and appreciative to be talking to another artist that wasn't all nerded up and asking stupid questions about the Flash or whatever. He signed our book and I told my wife as we walked off that he was one of the major silver age figures.
He's also the one that signed Kirby to DC, and under his editorship all of the great Fourth World stuff was made possible. So yeah, it was pretty cool to meet such a big wheel responsible for a lot of great silver age material, both on the page and in the office.
Oh, and he was sitting next to Julius Schwartz when we met him. Very awesome comics moment.
He's also the one that signed Kirby to DC, and under his editorship all of the great Fourth World stuff was made possible. So yeah, it was pretty cool to meet such a big wheel responsible for a lot of great silver age material, both on the page and in the office.
Oh, and he was sitting next to Julius Schwartz when we met him. Very awesome comics moment.
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06 Apr 2013 00:27 #149764
by Juniper
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