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17  juillet     10h16
EPIC ILLUSTRATED 1 (Spring 1980)
   Convert is the first short story Ernie produced for the launch of Epic Illustrated, Marvel’s own Heavy Metal magazine with adult material. Ernie would come back for the second issue and then never been seen again in those pages. Such a pity because Convert is a visceral piece of irony and truth...
10  août     20h34
Ernie Colon hommage -feel free to share
  
09  août     18h18
R.I.P. Ernie Colon
   At Ernie’s, in , when we met. The only entry of this blog I wasn’t eager to write is helas a reality since yesterday. Here is the official annoucement: The extraordinary Ernie Col n passed away yesterday afternoon in his home at the age of , surrounded by family, after over a year...
24  juin     12h42
ERNIE COLON in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 16: HOMMAGE from fellow artists
  
10  juin     12h40
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 15: THE ERNIE COLON EXPERIENCE
   ME: Usually, how do you work on a standard comic Do you rought the whole thing, page after page, scene after scene and then come back to pencil tighly and then one last time to ink the whole thing or perhaps do you work piece by piece, finishing parts you have most interest in or which are more...
03  juin     12h29
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 14: THE 9 11 books
   ME: How did the graphic adaptation came on Did you instantly agree on doing it or did you have any doubts on its relevance ERNIE: I had problems reading the report so many names, so many takeoff times for each plane. I gave up and called my pal Sid ...
27  mai     12h25
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 13 ANNE FRANK:
   ME: In the afterthought text of the Manimal reprint, you wrote ..In my world, Black blows their Goddamned brains out. I felt better for that. But the victims, the ghostly shadows, the backdrops for all this popular junk, deserve something more than Manimal. I dearly wish...
20  mai     12h15
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 12: CLASSIC ADAPTATIONS in Boy’s Life
   ME:What is the origin of your numerous adaptation works for Boy’s Life Magazine Is it over now ERNIE: Seymour Reit the creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost adapted the classic stories. They were fun to do and it was just wonderful to work with this lovely man. ...
13  mai     12h13
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 11: various short assignments
   ME: Can you tell us a little about the Black Book project your worked on in It marked your first collaboration with Syd Jacobson as writer, isn’t it ERNIE: Yes, Sid wrote it. When at Harvey, he once got a letter from a soldier in Korea asking why African Americans were never represented...
06  mai     11h31
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 10: UNDERWORLD
   ME: One of your last work for DC was the Underworld mini serie, scripted by Robert Loren Fleming. It was cop mature stories, way before Vertigo. Gene Colan was supposed to draw it in the first place. Did Len Wein, its editor, propose it to you or did Robert Fleming ask for you ERNIE: Robert...
29  avril     11h23
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 9: AX & MEDUSA CHAIN graphic novels
   ME: Is it me or is there definitvely a Phillipe Druillet influence in Medusa Chain It is a quite daring and intense science fiction story, like european readers were then able to read in the famous Metal Hurlant magazine. ERNIE: No. I just drew my own story my own way. It was before I went...
22  avril     11h13
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 8: AMETHYST
   ERNIE:Amethyst was one of the most enjoyable projects I ever worked on. The partnership of myself, and the writers Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin was fun and produced a series that appealed to girls as well as boys something the field has always needed. Girls making up a potential of readership,...
15  avril     11h07
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 7: Legion of Super-Heroes
   ME:You drew Legions of Super Heroes mini series Cosmic Boy amp; Legionnaires Three scripted by Keith Giffen, who also provided probably a panel grid with perhaps even very loosed breakdowns. Keith Giffen is known, among other things, to have provided the famous some people call it infamous ...
08  avril     10h58
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 6: ARAK & barbarians stuff
   ME: You had a short run on John Carter Warlord of Mars. During this run, you had almost a different inker in every issue, with Rudy Nebres, Bob Layton, Bob Mc Leod and Frank Springer working over your pencils. Each one has its own way. Mostly, when you do not ink yourself, do you prefer a heavy ...
31  mars     05h52
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 5: GOLD KEY
   ME:You were the regular penciller on Dr Solar to at GoldKey in . The title ended with issue , that you did not pencilled. Were you already out of Goldkey Did you choose to stop to pencil it ERNIE: I barely remember my experience at Gold Key. Did you inked yourself on those Dr...
24  mars     10h46
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 4: The Warren Years
   ME: You illustrated several horror suspense stories for Warren. Were there something liberating in drawing stories where everything falls apart at the end after years of nice stories or were you mostly still struggling too much with your style to appreciate it ERNIE: Jim Warren was an...
17  mars     05h42
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 3: ATLAS
   ME: Did you end up at Atlas because they were close to the Marvel offices and you went then while trying to break out at marvel or did Atlas search for you ERNIE: Jeff Rovin, the ed in chief, asked for me. He was a bout then a wunderkind. If they had just let him do his job, he would have...
12  mars     10h10
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 2: The Harvey Years
   ME: Did you enjoy working as a letterer or was it mostly for you a way to enter the comics field Did your years as a letterer teach you anything that you later used as a penciller ERNIE: I read in the Times Harvey was looking for a letterer. I am acknowledged to be the worst letterer in the...
04  octobre     11h44
ERNIE COLON INTERVIEW in SCARCE 77 (2011) Part 1: Who is Ernie?
   This blog wouldn’t exist whithout SCARCE N , the issue of the comics magazine I’m editing which focused on Ernie Colon. I was SO unhapy with the way we had to squeeze the almost complete bibiolgraphy of Ernie in unreadable pages and SO upset that almost nothing exist which will concentrate all...
29  septembre     13h04
THE VOICE ON THE WIRE in INNER SANCTUM (February 2012)
   Closing and longest story from the Inner Sanctum horror anthology, about the classic family scheme where the rich husband is killed but then he’s calling on the phone and all the suspects are trapped into the house while the suspense goes up and a corpse is approaching the door. A very expressive...
23  septembre     12h58
LIVED ONCE -- BURIED TWICE in INNER SANCTUM (February 2012)
   Shortest story of the Inner Sanctum horror anthology. Comical faces and small details are the highlight of this short humoristic story. NBM nbsp; published LIVED ONCE BURIED TWICE p in INNER SANCTUM nbsp; Ernie COLON wrote and drew it nbsp;
20  septembre     12h55
THE UNDEAD in INNERSANCTUM (February 2012)
   This p story about a women suspecting her husband to be a vampire has a very nice twist associated with it. The opening sequence is really unusual: it doesn’t look at all like Ernie’s style. Perhaps did he have help on it If, in its entirety, it seems a little weaker than the other stories from...
17  septembre     12h46
MENTALO in INNER SANCTUM (February 2012)
   Another story taken from the Inner Sanctum horror anthology. This one is really short compared to the others. The style used on this short magician trick story move from an unconventionnal sketchy but very powerful one to a more classic one, with heavy blacks. Then we go to something different ...
13  septembre     09h54
THE HORLA in INNERSANCTUM (February 2012)
   Third story of the horror anthology Inner Sanctum, The Horla has almost nothing to do with the famous Maupassant’s novel. Maupassant’s Horla is a litterature masterpiece so it’s gonna be difficult to be fair with this one if you have ever read the novel. No matter what, you will agree that the...
09  septembre     09h45
ALIVE IN THE GRAVE in INNER SANCTUM (February 2012)
   This second story of the horror anthology Inner Sanctum is quite schyzophrenic and frantic, both in form and storywise. It’s about a young man, pennyless, finding a dead guy in an alley and taking his wallet from his corpse. Later, he find a card in the wallet saying the guy is cataleptic, meaning...