Full circle

Did I mention that I started my class on inking last week? Ty Templeton is teaching it. I enjoyed the first class quite a bit -- the stuff that Ty was teaching was pretty interesting. One of his throw-away comments was about markers: he expects his markers to last about 1-2 pages; after that, it's not good enough. Wow. We don't get to touch crowquills until week 3.

Interestingly, this winter is the 50th anniversary of FASS, and FASS is where I first met Ty's brother, Brad Templeton (now of EFF fame). I'd never met Ty before. I bought an issue or two of Stig's Inferno in the mid-eighties, but can't say that I'm terribly familiar with much of Ty's recent work.

Just now, I was reading Ty's blog, and learned that one of the comic stores I frequented most often in the late nineties, Dragon Lady Comics, is closing. Dragon Lady is, like, a block away from where the inking class is being taught and is only a few blocks away from the former Roxton Manor.

Ms. Marvel

I found a link to this video about Ms. Marvel while reading Jim Shooter's blog. I like some of the stuff that Jim says; I'm less fond of other stuff that he says.

Anyway, I remember buying Avengers #200 (October, 1980) and disliking it, although at 13, I think I wasn't able to really identify what was going on as rape (I was pretty stupid about a lot of things). I also read Avengers Annual #10 a year later, in which Ms. Marvel gives the Avengers shit for not seeing what happened as rape.