I'm going about this essentially unused blog, deleting a few entries for the sake of it. I've not set this up to be alerted to anyone's comments. So I missed a couple.

Tom Hart clarifies something about his uploading of Samm Schwartz.

http://comicsnooks.blogspot.com/2008/02/sirks-storeyville-has-been-published.html#comments

Hey! It's back online, here:

http://www.tomhart.net/teaching/ComicArt/sammSchwartz/index.html

Thanks for pointing out it was down. Not sure why, but there it is.

I was more interested in his drawing of a SUIT, actually- the whole thing. The folds and the way it falls on the body. Just gorgeous. Jaime Hernandez is a distant second to this guy. Plus just watch the way the characters move around the picture plane.

Gorgeous!

Suit, not tie. Silly me.
I saw it at "newhatstories", which I gather has long gone out of Tom Hart's ownership. Also, when last I saw it it was posted under a category of "instruction" somehow, which amused me. "Okay, Class, study this Samm Schwartz piece carefully!" But maybe my memory is dodgy.

Looking over the entries for my deletion, I see I first murmored on Tom Hart's post about Samm Schwartz's suit with this:

Samm Schwartz should have died a year or two after Decarlo. He then probably would receive better accolades. As it is, a spin through google shows a smattering of respect for Schwartz, and at times a showing of him as an "Artist's Artist", or more properly "Cartoonist's Cartoonist".

Tom Hart admires his ability to draw a suit. For what was apparently one of the better Archie knock-offs, I assume done in the late 1960s for Tower Comics -- editing the horrible Thunder Agents Comics (only saving grace of which is the good Wally Wood art; the writing is just nonsensical).

Leaving aside his suit-drawing abilities, I have stared at page compositions from the late 1970s and 1980s, I believe inked by somebody who was highly complimentary -- and more than often under one of Frank Doyle's better scripts, with a strange sense of awe as he completely destroyed a page, breaking the fourth wall. There are a few stories I have always wanted to scan and publically dissect.
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Looking over this thing, I guess I can spot-light the two items from "Art Out of Time" that drew me in.

http://comicsnooks.blogspot.com/2007/01/wiggle-much.html

I have to point out my reading of "The Wiggle Much" because the editor of the book's interpretation leaned toward the "nonsensical", and I thought it had a definite narrative to it.

http://comicsnooks.blogspot.com/2006/12/gustave-verbecks-12-panel-in-6-panel.html

Gustave Verbeck's 12 panel in 6 panel strips -- a formulastic exercise that baffles me somewhat, found in Art Out of Time, are an endless fascination to me. But what I want to know is -- why would someone put so much work in something that received no credit and in a throw-away-medium?