![]() They reinvigorated the comics industry, but the American publishers decided that they didn’t feel right paying Filipino artists more than they were paying their Filipino help. They were brilliant artists people like Alfredo Alcala and Rudy Nebres. To replace them the heads at DC had got in a bunch of comic book fans - who were only too happy to be working on their favourite childhood characters - and would never dream of suggesting anything as uncouth as a union – by God it was bleak!Īt one point they got in a bunch of Filipino artists, because their home-grown artists had got lazy, working with talented inkers or colourists, who could hide all the flaws of the drawing – whereas the Filipino artists were used to working for black and white, so they did all of these shading techniques and heavy black areas, and things that proper illustrators are supposed to do. ![]() They’d fired most of their genuinely talented writers at the end of the sixties after they tried to form a union to get better working conditions. The comics industry had just got through the seventies, which hadn’t been easy. Back in the eighties you were the first British writer to work on major comic book titles in the USA. ![]()
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