Oh! In the Black panther reprint TP that's out now, the character "Khanata" is me. Jack made me one of the characters in the book I called him back when he was drawing it still and asked him about it and he responded by calling me by the character's name and I responded by saying "ALLLRIGHT!!!!!!!!!..
I've got a bunch more Jack came up with the name the "Comics Urinal" while we were joking on the phone and I shot back right away with "Yeah where everyone goes when they're pissed off". I came in to work for just a few minutes to fix something I forgot to do yesterday.
I have some Color pictures I did, which when I learn how to use my digital camera, I'm going to take pictures of and E-mail them to you and maybe you can remove some art from the site and replace them with some of these. I use to take these to the San Diego cons from '72 to '77.One picture I did for Jack at his suggestion that we'd trade. He said he'd draw whatever I asked, so I had him do the Silver Surfer and Thor. Eventually he suggested I could visit his house and when I did he gave me my drawing back. He was always encouraging me.
Back in 1975 when I was in the promotion advertisements for the movie Cooley high. In the year 2000 I ran into Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs in a Tower records outlet going out of business sale.
I told him I was in the newspaper ads and in the posters and stills front of the theaters and he told me he had a copy of the poster with me in it.
Yes, Larry along with will Meuniot of the "DNA" Agents produced the first X-men cartoon show pilot and had to fight New World to get it as right as it came out.I introduced Larry to Will years earlier,Will had been trying to get me in to the animation industry back in 1975.
He came down to L.A. from Barstow and got a job storyboarding at Filmation working on the Long Ranger cartoon show.Will and I met after admiring each other work in Legrazie's Zines!
I couldn't get the hang of doing storyboards but I thought that Larry could and plus I had just started my what I thought was more secure civil service job and didn't want to quit.
Larry was repairing computers and had 6 months rent saved up, so I thought if he got laid off from doing animation it would easy for him to get hired again, but me I had to take exam, and would have to go though the whole process again.
I got tons more, Like how I was suppose to be in the 2nd issue of Mike Friedrich's Starreach, It was a western story, and Dave Stevens was to ink it. I have a copy of a illoe he inked that I drew of the character. I have three pages of the pencils of the story still. Tons of stories!
Here is a pic an atricle of the Phoenix Con from an issue of RBCC #77! You will notice one of the pics is te late great Don Newton. Don't know if Arizona is considered West Coast or not./b>
