A few months back, DC started its rebirth by announcing they were revamping some classic Hanna Barbera characters for the new millennium. I'll just be honest here and say that I didn't think this was the best of DC's recent revamping efforts–do we really need a gritty Scooby Doo?–but this thing exists, or will soon, and it's going to be pretty funny either way. I believe there have been some artist announcements and more so here's where this is all at.
Illustrator and comic artist Dennis Culver is selling his spare copy of TOTH: BLACK & WHITE right now on ebay for $40. It normally sells on Amazon for over $100, just FYI.
(via eBay and Twitter)
Alex Toth fans rejoice. Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell’s long-awaited book on Toth, including a biography and little-seen art, has expanded to a three-volume, slipcased edition, to be published by IDW. Toth’s children, Dana and Eric, were consulted in the writing process and it promises to be a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated affair. The first volume, Genius Isolated, ships in March 2011 and spotlights his early work and life until the ’60s. Genius, Illustrated follows his life in animation, and Genius Animated includes little-seen animation models and drawings. A slipcase will ship with the third volume.
PR below. No price point given but this is certain to be a must-have among must-haves for fans of the complex man known as one of the most talented cartoonists of all time.
GENIUS, ISOLATED: THE LIFE AND ART OF ALEX TOTH by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell
Alex Toth is revered as one of the greatest of all comics artists. Others laud his pioneering work in animation, including his groundbreaking designs for Space Ghost and The Herculoids. His work influenced countless professionals in both fields. His biography and talents proved too big to be contained in a single volume. Therefore, The Library of American Comics and IDW is releasing the much-anticipated Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth in March 2011 as the first in a three-book set that will be the definitive statement on the restless genius and timeless legacy of Alex Toth.
Created by the Eisner Award-winning team of Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell—who produced the ground-breaking Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles—Genius, Isolated is a lavishly illustrated book that includes the first biography of this giant figure. The book has been compiled with complete access to the family archives, and with the full cooperation of Toth’s children.
Creative Director Dean Mullaney and Associate Art Director Lorraine Turner met with Toth’s two eldest children, Dana and Eric, to discuss the expansive plans for the three-book set. “It’s been a great pleasure getting to know them over the past two years,” said Mullaney, who worked with Alex Toth to publish the definitive Zorro editions in the 1980s. “To say that we’re all excited with the larger scope of the project is an understatement!”
In addition to art and photographs from the family, Toth fans and friends throughout the world have loaned original artwork reproduced in the entire series. Included are many examples of Toth’s art, from complete stories to rare pages, as well as—incredulously—a previously unknown, unfinished, and unpublished penciled story from the early 1950s! The tome covers his earliest stories at DC in the 1940s, his defining work at Standard, his incomparable Zorro comics in the 1950s, and a special section collects—for the first time—the complete Jon Fury pages that Toth produced while in the army, a section that alone is worth the price of admission.
A few months back, DC started its rebirth by announcing they were revamping some classic Hanna Barbera characters for the new millennium. I'll just be honest here and say that I didn't think this was the best of DC's recent revamping efforts–do we really need a gritty Scooby Doo?–but this thing exists, or will soon, and it's going to be pretty funny either way. I believe there have been some artist announcements and more so here's where this is all at.
As long as Keith Griffen has a hand in it, I’m sure it will be hilarious and well worked.
RE: New Flintstones
Yabba Dabba Don’t.
Hey Spike!:
But Giffen is an old white guy trying to make money,..
Ruh-oh!
“But Giffen is an old white guy trying to make money,..”
Working in comics? Talk about your screwball plans…
If these comics sell poorly, will they blame those meddling kids?
I understand the cold business aspect of trying to mine some new money out of old properties, and I’m sure it was fun for those involved to do their ‘What If?’ takes on these iconic characters — but in the end, isn’t it all rather creepy looking? Sort of like when aging stars have too much plastic surgery. Or that time when 63 year-old Pat Boone dressed up in a studded leather collar, bared his chest and did that album of heavy metal songs.
Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Heidi, this is my favorite thing you’ve ever written.
It’s always an angry old white guy with some crazy real estate scheme.
(Rut Roh…better send those meddling kids to Cleveland!)
As for the Scoobiverse movie franchise… well, they did cross-over with Batman quite a few times!
(I’ll let others figure out the Six-Degress-of-Scooby-Doo chart…start with Laff-A-Lympics… )
Meanwhile, you all might get a kick out of this:
http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Scooby-Doo!_Mask_of_the_Blue_Falcon
WATCH THE BACKGROUND CHARACTERS!
For the record, DC is reprinting the Joe Kelly Space Ghost miniseries.
Shaggy needs to shave that hipster moustache.
I’m totally on board for Wacky Racers: Beyond Thunderdome
Will there be a second wave which includes Captain Caveman, Jabberjaw and Huckleberry Hound?