Byrne Question

[RobertTN]

Hi Ethan, congrats on the new board, yadda yadda, so anyway I have a question...weren't you hanging out on the Byrne board for a while there? Were you banned or did you just sort of migrate away or what? What do you think of him and his work? Doesn't that shake you up a bit that Byrne is a fellow right-wing comic creator? I ask because I anticipate you might have an interesting and/or insightful answer...

[Ethan Van Sciver]

I was banned from the John Byrne board for making a joke that insinuated that he inked his drawings with a Sharpie marker. First he banned me, then he challenged me to prove it, and then he confirmed that he did in fact ink with Sharpies, but so do Neal Adams and Terry Austin. (They don't.)

I haven't looked at his work lately, but I loved his Fantastic Four and X-Men work, and it helped me to love comics.

Why would the fact that Byrne is a fellow right wing comic creator shake me up in the slightest? What does that mean?

[RobertTN]

Well, the fact that Byrne is a right-winger proves...well, nothing really, that's what made me post under the category of "nonsense," a cheap shot and all that, along the lines of pointing out that y'know, right-wingers do tend to be kind of nutty, like Byrne.

Thanks for the answer though; I was right; that was an interesting story. I seem to remember way back in the day that Byrne commented in the letters page of FF that he was experimenting with a sharpie; around the "lost in the negative zone storyline." Weird that he would go all ape-shit over that, and even drag other creators into the argument; I can't really imagine Terry Austin inking with a sharpie, so I believe you on that score. I grew up really digging the Byrne FF and X-Men, and it helped form a life-long comics-reading habit for me, but man did he get weird.

[Ethan Van Sciver]

Well, the fact that Byrne is a right-winger proves...well, nothing really, that's what made me post under the category of "nonsense," a cheap shot and all that, along the lines of pointing out that y'know, right-wingers do tend to be kind of nutty, like Byrne.

http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/mn_protest_dance.jpg

[RobertTN]

Touché, but then again….

http://www.byrnerobotics.com

[Brad N.]

http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/mn_protest_dance.jpg

That fat guy with the drum look uber douchey.

[Generic Poster]

I thought at one point, he was drawing directly with a sharpie, not just inking with one. Or did I just imagine that?

[Taxman]

I was banned from the John Byrne board for making a joke that insinuated that he inked his drawings with a Sharpie marker. First he banned me, then he challenged me to prove it, and then he confirmed that he did in fact ink with Sharpies, but so do Neal Adams and Terry Austin. (They don't.)

I haven't looked at his work lately, but I loved his Fantastic Four and X-Men work, and it helped me to love comics.

Why would the fact that Byrne is a fellow right wing comic creator shake me up in the slightest? What does that mean?That's freakin' awesome. :thumb:

[RobertTN]

I was banned from the John Byrne board for making a joke that insinuated that he inked his drawings with a Sharpie marker. First he banned me, then he challenged me to prove it, and then he confirmed that he did in fact ink with Sharpies, but so do Neal Adams and Terry Austin. (They don't.)

Huh. That is an interesting chronology. Shouldn't he have challenged you before he banned you? Since you were banned, I wonder how that challenge worked.

[Matt Jay]

What's the big deal using a sharpie to ink? Is that like using velcro shoes?

[TomBelandTSSTG]

I was banned from the John Byrne board for making a joke that insinuated that he inked his drawings with a Sharpie marker. First he banned me, then he challenged me to prove it, and then he confirmed that he did in fact ink with Sharpies, but so do Neal Adams and Terry Austin. (They don't.)

I haven't looked at his work lately, but I loved his Fantastic Four and X-Men work, and it helped me to love comics.

Why would the fact that Byrne is a fellow right wing comic creator shake me up in the slightest? What does that mean?

Jesus Christ... I've thought he inked with Sharpies forever! I think I noticed it during his end-run on Fantastic Four. His lines were much heavier and there was a noticeable drop in line-weight. I didn't help the fact that I was so into his work while Austin was inking him.

And if Austin was using Sharpies, he did a brilliant job of hiding it! I'd like to know how he did it. Terry's one of the great inkers in the industry.

So, what was his deal being upset at that being noticed..? It's not like you were calling the guy a hack, hell, if I'd met him or had the chance to talk with him, I'd ask him the same thing, lol. And that's just because, as an indie artist who uses sharpies for some of my inking, it was cool to see a big mainstream artist doing the same.

I'd have a blank look of amazement on my face if I were banned for bringing that up!

[Ethan Van Sciver]

Feh, it doesn't matter. I liked a lot of the posters over there, but the board is so restrictive, and Byrne kept implying that I was on medication because I'm crazy. What if I actually was being medicated for mental health problems? That wouldn't be nice of him.