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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA