Today I went to the post office and got an envelope with the traditional nomination ballot for the Harvey Awards.
.........................the TENTH nomination ballot that arrives to my mailbox during my comic book artist years.
I looked at it for a while and tought.... Man! It's been ten years already since I've been drawing the Looney Tunes....and I've never won a single thing for it.
I laugh every time I hear someone saying "man, they should do more Looney Tunes". I mean...'Hello'?? What about us? Artists and writers who have kept Bugs' ears alive trough the years in the comics.
Usually cartoon artists are not recognized among comic book artists because....I don't know....Our work is not 'mature' enough? Or demanding enough?
I remember drawing the cover for Looney Tunes # 50 a few years ago. They were celebrating 50 comics! The franchise made it! 5o freakin'comics! (100-something now as we speak). The cover featured the Looney Tunes coming out of their trademark ring and the editor wanted a variant cover for it with a golden ring. That would've been a blast! But....it didn't passed the approval because...It's too expensive and the LT books are not that collectible.
Today I stand before my drawing table. I have yet another Looney Tunes story to finish in my hands and wondering.... Are those who are voting thinking on us?... Maybe not on me but what about Mike De Carlo? A great senior inker whose work goes from Looney Tunes to classic Batman stories?... Bill Matheny? A TREMENDOUS funny writer? Dan Slott? A wonderful funny-writer who understands the Looney Tunes so well? The Duendes-Pablo Zamboni, Omar Aranda, and the others whose work has done so much for the cartoon comics?
What about them? What about us?
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4 comments:
I Soooo love Yenny. I read your comic every day.
MsAmber
Why thank you very much!!! :-)
Oh, I've been watching the Looney Tunes comics since they started with DC in the early 90's, and I have always enjoyed your work the best. Remember that interview from so long ago? http://toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com/alvarez.htm
I haven't picked up an issue in a couple months, I think the last one I got was the one with Pete Puma and Yosemite Sam on the cover. But I'll admit, I get disappointed when I get an issue that DOESN'T have one of your stories in it! I've collected most of the issues, and every time I look over them again, I enjoy your drawings. Not to knock anybody else either, I really like Neal Sternecky's style, and Walter Carzon does a good job with Tweety and the 1940's Daffy Duck. The writers are great too, and while I don't much care for the Duck Dodgers TV show, the comic stories are great! Keep it up!
I do remember. How are things going?
Thanks for the good words!!
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