Bill Peckmann &Illustration 05 Jan 2012 07:57 am
Toth Interview
- Bill Peckmann forwarded the following interview with artist, Alex Toth. The comments are by Bill:
- In the somewhat early days of comic book fandom, there was a class act fanzine titled “Graphic Story Magazine”, it was edited and published by Bill Spicer. In 1969 all of us Alex Toth fans were given a rare, in depth treat by way of an interview with Alex done by Bill. In the days before the internet and with just the means of out of pocket publishing, this professional looking, many paged interview was pure manna from heaven. Up until that time there were only a few capsulated bio’s printed here and there. Interestingly, the interview now is just a little over 40 years old, which is the same number of years as Alex’s age when the interview was given. It also marks an approximate half way point in Alex’s exceptional career. Enjoy.
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It seems that memories here were getting a little fuzzy on the dating
of the “I Struck It Rich” story. It was published in 1951 and not in the
1940′s when Alex was still in high school. He did amazingly professional
work while in high school, it just wasn’t this story.
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on 05 Jan 2012 at 11:01 am 1.Oscar Solis said …
Wow! As a fan of Alex Toth I’ve been wanting to read this interview for years and here it is. Many thanks to you and Bill Peckmann
on 06 Jan 2012 at 4:40 pm 2.The Gee said …
I haven’t read all of it yet but I like the cut of his gib.
Maybe it has been a while since I have read any interviews with Toth, or maybe I haven’t read enough interviews with him, but it is nice to find out what he thought about TV animation and film, and his views about art in general.
Thanks.