Olyoptics Timeline - 1982 Page 2

I learned that if you are there, the work is too...

  I colored a story Bill did for National Lampoon that led to several other assignments for them. (Michael Golden, Kevin Nolan, and Frank Thorne were some of the others...)

  That trip actually had a very unique beginning. I arrived in New York on a Friday morning. I made my first stop at the Marvel offices where Brent and Weezie (Louise Simonson, our X-Men novel editor) and I were to have a meeting before going out to Connecticut . It turned out that she was assembling a weekend coloring crew for a rush job. Marvel was doing the comic adaptation of the Jim Henson film “The Dark Crystal”, and it was going to be in full color.

  She had 48 pages that had to be colored by Monday morning. Most of the colorists she had been able to round up had little or no full-color experience. Since I was fast, familiar with the techniques needed, and better at rendering, Weezie promoted me to color supervisor. I ended up touching up most of the pages, and generally unifying the look. We met the deadline, I made $1,200 I didn’t expect, and I got a bonus treat. I got to go to the Muppet Mansion near Central Park . I got to see the Creature Shop where many of the Muppets get built.

  That fall turned out to be filled with plenty of work, artistic inspiration, a Halloween party at Bernie Wrightson’s upstate New York home, and a weekend spent at Neal Adam’s Long Island beach house. Not to mention how beautiful fall is in New England .