[net.comics] EVANGELINE news

boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (08/09/85)

> From:	fluke!moriarty	(really Henry Vogel)
 
> Mentioning Comico
> and books they have lost, if you liked Evangeline (I did) and are waiting for
> it to appear somewhere else (I was) you may be in for a disappointment. The
> woman who does it (her name slips my mind at this time)

Judith Hunt drew it, and her husband Charles Dixon wrote it.

> has not got that great a reputation
> in the business right now. If you remember, she claimed that Comico
> had all the pages from her for the third issue but just weren't printing
> it. That, of course, if just plain rediculous! No publisher sits on an issue
> of a book that is selling extremely well for them! Comico responded to those
> accusations by saying that they had hardly seen any of the artwork and kept
> being put off. It turned out that the woman wanted out of her Comico contract
> and had hopes of getting more money elsewhere. However, her antics blew it for
> her and, most likely, Evangeline. No comic company wants to have someone who
> will pull what she did as soon as it looks like they can get more money else-
> where! So, it looks like she has rather successfully ruined her career - at
> least for a while - in comics.

That's really too bad. She was quite a good artist. If memory serves, she did
the first "Mark Thrust" back-feature story as well as ROBOTECH DEFENDERS, or
whatever that silly mini-series was from DC. But, maybe this will teach her
not to pull shenanigans like this again.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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