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Conversations with Todd McFarlane
About this book
Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane's polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with his writing ventures decades later, the interviews offer compelling perspectives from the renowned creator.As the most vocal representative of Image Comics, McFarlane, alongside Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri, and Whilce Portacio, was a veritable rock star. Eager fans swarmed into lengthy lines around comic book stores and conventions, waiting for their chance at a thirty-second autograph. This book offers a glimpse into the comic book world of the early 1990s, a world rampant with variant covers, impossibly exaggerated bodies, and wild speculation about what would be the next comic to explode in value. The volume also includes the momentous public debate between McFarlane and Peter David, former collaborator on The Incredible Hulk, moderated by the late George Pérez at a standing-room-only event at ComicsFest in 1993. While this world sounds almost inconceivable to the comic book fan of today, it was the milieu in which McFarlane rose to stardom and excelled like no other, leaving his mark on the medium forever.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Todd McFarlane
- Spider-Man Artist: Todd McFarlane
- Comic Shop News Spotlight: Todd McFarlane
- One Hell of a Ride: Part One
- One Hell of a Ride: Part Two
- Todd McFarlane
- The Peter David-Todd McFarlane Debate
- McFarlane Speaks Out
- Todd McFarlane
- The Last Todd McFarlane Interview …
- The Man Who Would Kill Image: Todd McFarlane Meets Hart Fisher
- The Man Who Wouldn’t Give In …: A Combo Interview with Todd McFarlane
- Dossier: Jeffrey Goldsmith Interviews Todd McFarlane
- Hellbent for Action
- Virtuoso: Todd McFarlane
- The Writin’ Side of Me: The Todd McFarlane Interview
- Index
- About the Editor