{"id":17422,"date":"2017-03-11T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17422"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:15:48","slug":"ken-meyer-jr-s-ink-stains-43-gulacy-starlin-simonson-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17422","title":{"rendered":"Ken Meyer Jr.\u2019s Ink Stains 44: Gulacy, Starlin, Simonson and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z031117starlin_whizzard12_inkstain44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"644\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a fan of fanzines, then you&#8217;ve got to check out <strong>Ken Meyer, Jr.&#8217;s<\/strong> monthly column <strong>Ink Stains<\/strong>. \u00a0Each month Ken (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenmeyerjr.com\/\"><strong>who is an amazing artist<\/strong><\/a>) posts&#8230; well, let&#8217;s let <strong>Ken<\/strong> explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have a collection of over 200 fanzines from the 60\u2019s-80\u2019s that I plan to scan and talk about, one at a time. I hope to have some of the participants answer a few questions. Many of those participants are established comics professionals now, while some have gone on to other things. I will show a few snippets from each zine and give you a link to download a pdf of the whole thing, which I hope all of you will do!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenmeyerjr.com\/ink-stains.html\"><strong>Ink Stains\u00a044<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Ken<\/strong> took a look at <b>Whizzard 12, 13 and 14<\/b>\u00a0from<strong>\u00a01979 &#8211; 1981\u00a0<\/strong>from<strong>\u00a0Marty Klug.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whizzard 12 features &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Walt Simonson cover<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim Starlin frontpiece (seen above)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interviews with Simonson, Starlin, Michael Golden and Mike Nasser<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spot illos by Rick Burchett, Terry Austin<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indexes for Simonson, Starlin, Golden and Nasser<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fan art and articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whizzard 13 features &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interviews with Marshall Rogers, Craig Russell, Tim Conrad, Steve Gerber and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Don McGregor<\/li>\n<li>Indexes for Russell, Conrad and Rogers<\/li>\n<li>Art by Conrad, Rick Burchett and art pulled from comics by Rogers, Russell<\/li>\n<li>Fan art and articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whizzard 14 features &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Nasser\/Terry Austin cover<\/li>\n<li>Interviews with Paul Gulacy, Dick Giordano and Mike Nasser<\/li>\n<li>Indexes for Gulacy<\/li>\n<li>Centerspread by Paul Gulacy<\/li>\n<li>Art by Rick Burchett, Ken Meyer, Jr., Mike Nasser and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boy, did these bring back memories. \u00a0I owned all of these fanzines back in the day. \u00a0Ken points out in his Ink Stains article that Whizzard was more focused on interviews than art and that art is timeless. \u00a0As I looked back over these issues (which I loved at the time) I kept thinking I&#8217;d have loved to seen more art. \u00a0Still, it was great to revisit them.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the memories of\u00a0the glory days of fanzines. \u00a0Thanks to <strong>Ken Meyer, Jr.<\/strong> for making these available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of fanzines, then you&#8217;ve got to check out Ken Meyer, Jr.&#8217;s monthly column Ink Stains. \u00a0Each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27043,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422\/revisions\/27043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}