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Thompson, Maggie (19 August 2005). "Comics Fan Awards 1961–1970". Comics Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Nor do I see what the allusions to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein did for this book. The project to transform Bobby Bailey into the monster on the cover is called Prometheus and the subtitle to Shelley’s novel is “The Modern Prometheus”. The final part of the book takes place in Schongau, which is near Ingolstadt, a prominent place in Frankenstein. Other pointlessly derivative literary allusions is having a couple of characters who essentially have the Shining in all but name.

a b "Barry Windsor-Smith". Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller. n.d. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. A Real Slut in the Making: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood Through the Lens of Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women By Corinne Manning On May 20, 5 days before his 73rd birthday, Barry Windsor-Smith, author of WEAPON X and MONSTERS, suffered an Ischemic Stroke. He spent 8 days in an ICU and some weeks in rehabilitation. He has been released from the hospital and is slowly recovering at his home in NY. Congratulations to Barry Windsor-Smith for winning the top award at the recent 2022 Eisner Awards (the Academy Awards for comics), though part of me thinks it is like one of those LifeTime Achievement Awards, as he took 37 years to finish it and he’s 71. But many aspects of it are impressive, certainly. Regarding the style and technique; Barry both wrote and illustrated Monsters. It’s clear that he used his 37 years wisely, as every single piece of every panel is completely necessary. There’s no fluff here.Since leaving Valiant, Windsor-Smith has worked for a number of companies. For Malibu's Ultraverse line he co-created Rune with Chris Ulm, including a crossover one-shot comic titled Conan vs. Rune published by Marvel Comics in 1994 after they took over Malibu. As a result he once again came up against legal ownership problems, and the Rune stories have remained un-reprinted as a result. For Image Comics he worked on the crossover storyline " Wildstorm Rising", drawing and coloring Wildstorm Rising No. 1 (May 1995), and all eleven of the covers for the interlinked series. Windsor-Smith later said that he was talked into illustrating Wildstorm Rising, and regretted participating in it, stating that in reading the story and illustrating it, he could not understand the motivations of any of the characters, even when he read earlier Wildstorm books featuring the characters. He says he altered the plot in an attempt to improve it and his enthusiasm for it, later learning that writer James Robinson was not pleased with his doing so. [31] Windsor-Smith uses lots of dates and places to set up scenes but they add nothing to the context - who’s really going to remember that this scene is taking place three months after the one before last? For the Evulz: The Professor at one point pours hot coffee onto Logan's face, knowing that, due to the mind control, he literally cannot react to the pain of it burning him.

Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards Best Individual Story Dramatic ("Red Nails," by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith, from Savage Tales #1–3) (nominated) [48] Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller volume 1, number 1. Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse, 1996. OCLC 63079005 BWS tenía que haberse buscado un guionista para, al menos, redactar los diálogos (lo que seguramente habría conducido a una poda de páginas) y corregir las incoherencias del relato (¿junio de 1945? ¿No debería haber sido mayo de 1945? ¿Qué cojones hacen los nazis en esa casa?). Pero entonces nos habríamos perdido parte de arte, y Monstruos es un tebeo para mirarlo y remirarlo mientras te deleitas con los detalles de las ilustraciones en glorioso blanco y negro. El excelente trabajo sobre las tramas y en el detalle de ciertas estampas que se ajusta a lo que demanda la narración, morosa en la mayoría de las partes, precipitada al final.Be Careful What You Wish For: Experiment X wanted to turn Logan into an Implacable Man. They succeeded all too well. After leaving Marvel, Windsor-Smith became the creative director and lead artist at Valiant Comics, where he illustrated the company's revival of the 1960s Gold Key Comics character Solar, and created the original characters Archer and Armstrong. He was also the chief designer of the " Unity" crossover storyline. After leaving Valiant in 1993, Windsor-Smith did work through a number of publishers, including co-creating the vampiric character Rune with Chris Ulm, which was published as part of Malibu Comics' Ultraverse. Rune's adventures included a crossover with Conan that Windsor-Smith wrote and illustrated. He also provided art for the WildStorm Productions/ Image Comics storyline " Wildstorm Rising", though he later came to regret that work. He subsequently created an oversized anthology series, Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller through Dark Horse Comics, though it was cancelled after nine issues. From Space to Environment, Fluxus to Furniture Music: The Women of Kankyō Ongaku By Sadie Rebecca Starnes Groth, Gary (September 1996). "The Barry Windsor-Smith Interview". The Comics Journal. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books (190). Archived from the original on 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 July 2013.

But even if you didn't do any of these things, you should still take a minute to see what Barry Windsor-Smith — Eisner Award Hall-of-Famer, genre-shaping fantasy artist and 50-year veteran of the comics industry — has been up to for the last three-and-a-half decades. McFarland, the dude with the Shining, is less of a character and more of a plot device - so much so that you could say this character IS the plot because without him there is no book. He happens to have an extremely contrived connection to the Baileys and he just happens to recommend Bobby Bailey for the Prometheus project and he just happens to have the Shining which helps resolve the whole story that he set in motion. I just found everything about this character far too convenient. The terms I need to use in the script (all spouting from the paranoiac and drunken Tom Banner) are actually mild when paralleled to other – perhaps more sophisticated – media such as film, print and (at this date) television. Barry came to me with a completely penciled and written graphic novel. It was the about the development of the “mighty, raging fury” inside Bruce Banner, who, he revealed, was the product of an abusive home. I looked it over. I thought it was brilliant, one of the best comics stories I’d ever seen. I offered Barry a contract and an advance. He turned me down — temporarily. He proposed to finish the thing — then, if I would agree to publish it as created, no alterations whatsoever, he would sign a contract and take the money. I was willing to agree to that in writing on the spot, but he said, no, when it’s finished. Okay. Fine by me. I already knew, from what he’d shown me, that there’d be no problem. a b Hahn, Joel (ed.). "1973 Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014 . Retrieved 4 February 2016.

There are shades of Frankenstein here, but also of Windsor-Smith’s celebrated 1991 Wolverine origin story Weapon X (evil scientists torturing a drifter into wretched superhumanity), and even a hint of The Shining. One of the things that’s interesting about Windsor-Smith as a writer and illustrator is that, as much as he bridles at the commercial comic book industry, he never seems to look down on the fantastical genre elements that are its bread and butter. It was his excitement at Kirby’s drawing – and Kirby, let’s not forget, was a genius of the bombastic and esoteric – that took this art-school kid across the Atlantic. Annual Comic Buyers Guide Fan Awards (1998)". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016 . Retrieved 4 February 2016. It Seems Like a Waste … Of the Dramatic Situation”: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy By Dan Sullivan a b c d e Barry Smith at the Grand Comics Database and Barry Windsor-Smith at the Grand Comics Database Cronin, Brian (16 September 2022). "The Strange Origins of Barry Windsor-Smith's Iconic Wolverine Story, Weapon X". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on 16 September 2022 . Retrieved 16 September 2022.