| Creator Alex Toth (1928-2006) |
| Profession Artist, Animator |
| Total Entries 15 |
| Articles Alex Toth – Lambiek Comiclopedia Alex Toth – Wikipedia Making Genius: Mullaney and Canwell on Alex Toth – The Comics Journal |
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Dick Giordano: Alex has always said that he was always searching for the simple statement. He was trying as an artist to make the drawing as simple as possible so that it will be clear. So I have a letter from him thanking me for editing his stuff. I took out things that he put in that he didn’t want to be there. I was able to anticipate his need to make a simple statement and I helped simplify the work. I was really proud that he had noticed what I had done, especially because he was always one of my heroes. CBA: Alex seemed to have a successful gig in animation. Why did he work for you? Dick Giordano: For the most part, I don’t think that Alex ever needed the work. I think that he enjoyed doing comics. He was tentative about this brave new world we were concocting which was completely different than the one that he had grown up in. He was used to a business where the artist basically took orders from an editor, got a full script and did whatever was in that script. You didn’t dare make a change. He didn’t really believe that we were becoming more flexible. He now had in mind the same kind of stories, approaches and details that he had earlier but he didn’t want to believe that we were coming closer to the way that he thought. Every once in a while he would feel good about it but then would say that, no, it’s not what he wanted at all. It was all in his head, whatever it was. Alex is the closest thing we have to a genius in this business. ~ Dick Giordano Interview – TwoMorrows Publishing
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