DC has announced the Julie Schwartz tribute comic project, in which they gave covers of classic Julie comics to various writers and we are to produce 11-page stories tying in with the covers. This has been in the hopper for a little while, but since they’ve announced it (check out Newsarama.com) and attached my name, I figured I’d tell you that I’m scheduled to co-write mine with Harlan Ellison (Harlan would do the plot, I’d turn it into a script) and the cover we’re doing is Justice League of America #53, which features the JLA being attacked by their own weapons. (Hey, Glenn, if somehow you have a copy of this cover laying around, feel free to post it here.)
PAD
(UPDATE: Peter, I’ll look through my collection for Justice League of America #53 as soon as I get back from the hotel I’m at with your wife. –GH)
(UPDATE 2: Oh, all right. Here. –GH)
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Too bad they’re not all gorilla covers.
As for the JLA cover, you can see at the GCD at:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1449/200/1449_2_053.jpg
I’ll definitely be picking up all of these tribute books.
Julius Schwartz is one of the gentlemen in comics I most admire. I always have. I always will.
OK, so that was my second choice for a JLA cover for this project. My first hope was for JLA #28, featuring the JLA in full costume walking a picket line in front of the UN…and just imagining what Harlan could do with that…
Any word on who the artist will be?
I feel really terrible, as I just this second found out about the memorial for Julie…and of course I would have come! Seems John (Higgins, my husband) had received the e-mail from DC about the memorial, but as I had been sick with a flu that landed in my vestibular process (causing the world to spin and careen and yaw and swerve and swoop, a hëll on earth if there was ever one), the idea of going into NYC just didn’t seem possible and so he never mentioned it….I suppose he’s right, as I just went back to work on the 18th after ten days out, so it could’ve been, most likely WOULD’VE been, difficult for me to get off (you know the corporate mentality, even medical centers qualify, of “how dare you get sick?”, you have to bring it twenty notes from various doctors to prove you weren’t in the Bahamas sunning yourself and sipping Pina Coladas)…
But I still feel terrible about not being there…
Mindy
All I’m saying is that if Alan Moore doesn’t do a story, there is no God.
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Re: Sasha
DITTO. Really big honking DITTO.
PAD,
I’m guessing you’re not in the mood for dumb questions right now, so I’ll keep this brief.
Are you taking the covers and then making your own story from it, or do you have to be as close to the original as possible?
Great project! I’ll look forward to seeing it.
I’m tremendously excited about this project. Just looking at the creative teams on the other projects gets the fanboy in me all giddy.
And the “Poor Bášŧárd, What He Must Have Gone Through When He Was a Kid” award goes to the Lunacon costuming co-guest of honor, Ricky Ðìçk. Or, as I’m sure the kids called him all through school, Rick Ðìçk. Or Tricky Ðìçk. Or, for the more literary minded, Ricky Dicky Davi.
Man, I thought *my* name sucked in school.
PAD
“Are you taking the covers and then making your own story from it, or do you have to be as close to the original as possible?”
Total freedom to do whatever we want.
PAD
Peter:
This is a great idea and will be a nice tribute to one of legends. Brownie points for DC for giving Julie the respect that he deserves. Besides that the concept is soooo interesting, seeing how different writers craft a story inspired by the same cover.
It’s a wonderful tribute, and I hope to obtain some of the books for it as well.
Julie is a man whom I greatly admired as well, and who deserves much praise for many years to come. He will be very missed.
“Man, I thought *my* name sucked in school.”
Haha, I just realized that. Man, I’m so totally calling you Peter if I ever see you at a convention. That’s gonna rule!
Let me fall into line here by saying that this sounds like an absolutely GREAT project! Looking foward to it.
I hope we’re talking trade paperback here, as those are the only things I buy now.
Just kidding. Heh. Uh, what are you doing with that knife, Mr. David? Sir? Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!
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Oh that’s [b]NOTHING[/b]. I got called anything and everything the rest of the school could think of…
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Cool. Though I assume Green Arrow is gonna be in it, since he’s on the cover and all.
Ack. Guess I still need to get used to the new board formatting…
Marv Wolfman’s mentioned on his blog that he’s writing the other story in the issue based on the JLA #53 cover. And that Harlan’s refusing to tell him what Harlan came up with. 🙂