posted March 30, 2003 07:25 PM               

Obviously, pardon the tongue-in-cheek topic...Secondly, for a "Marvel"-related thread on a DC Board,...and finally, this is meaningless if you don't recognize the work/name of Pat Boyette...

and with that said...

I'm rereading my entire Daredevil run - as I hit the Noceti/Romita Jr. era(mid/late 80s), good God, this hit me like a bolt from Jove in his high heavens! And I've, of course, followed Romita Jr.'s career via Spidey-related and Thor titles...

When did Jr. "become" a Pat Boyette stylist?
I don't know enough about art to describe any techniques, but gosh, particularly in regard to his DD run, Romita seems to be greatly influenced by Mr Boyette. My jaw drops in awe as I realized I didn't notice this ages ago when these were first published.

Hell, I always wondered why Romita Jr wasn't exactly a favorite of mine. Perhaps my -ahem- "comic subconscience" was telling me "...Boyette from Charlton...Boyette from Charlton..."

Dig out yer old boxes and check! Hell, I've alway been slow on the up-take!

posted March 31, 2003 01:33 AM               

Hmmm...Caniff to Boyette to Romita? I'm sad to say, I'm more familiar with Caniff's "name" than with his actual work (mostly comic strips?)...again, don't really mean to imply that Boyette "influenced" JR jr,but perhaps you are correct in the assumption that another third party artist influenced them both...
I'm tellin' ya, James, it's just when I'm going thru those issues and seeing "Boyette" faces! Ha!

Best...
Carlo

posted March 31, 2003 08:21 AM               

yep, I can "see" a lot of Caniff in Robbins, as I recall his handful of Batman/Detective/
Shadow issues...

I wanna recall seeing a lot of Caniff (collected) stuff offered by Kitchen Sink (i think) years ago, but for whatever reason wasn't too much interested in comic "strips"...

Later I did run across some Sherlock Holmes strips collected in comic-form (Giacoia?), and did get those KSP/DC joint-effort collection of comic strips ...

Perhaps as a youngster I never equated comics with comic-strips in newspapers, hence I'd guess a still-to-this-day modest interest in "strips"...