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PREFACE

l’ve been planning to write this book for years, but it took Big John Buscema to light the fire and get the whole thing started. Here’s how it happened.

You know how it is. You intend to paint the barn, or mow the lawn, tidy up your room, or write a book—but you keep putting it off because there are a zillion other things you’d rather do. Weil, that’s the way it was with me. I’ve spent so many years as editor, art director and writer of so many superhero yarns that I just couldn’t bring myself to write the one book that I knew would have to be written sooner or later—the one book that Marvel fans everywhere always ask for when-ever I deliver one of my Miting little lectures on some campus or other. Namely, the book you’re now so gratefully grasping in your pencil-smudged little paws.

Why has it been so eagerly requested? Simple. You see, while there’s a veritable piethora of “How to Draw” manuals gallantly glorifying any booksel!er’s shelves, up to now there’s been no book avaiiable to tell a budding young Buscema, or Kirby, Colan or Kane how to draw comicbook superheroes, and—most importantly —how to do it in the mildly magnificent Marvel style. Yep, I knew l’d have to write it someday, and it all came together when Big John organized his comicbook workshop.

Early in 75 Johnny told me he was going to teach a course in drawing for the comics. My curiosity aroused, I visited one of his classes and was absolutely amazed at the quality and depth of his instruction. You know how rare it is to find the foremost person in some field who can actually teach as well as perform.

Weil, take it from me, I had certainly found him that day—and I was doubly fortunate in that he was a longtime friend as well as a co-worker at Marvel Comics.

After viewing the success of his popular art course, I finally told Johnny that I felt it was a shame only a comparative handfui of students could learn what he had to teach about comicbook artwork—a shame that so few were able to sit at the feet

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