Does the comics or animation industry have any books like Kitchen Confidential where it takes you in behind the scenes and gets out all the crazy shit artists and writers got up to as they scrambled to make things for the public?
>Wolfman getting torn a new one by Shooter
>Disney's Nine Old Men struggling to meet Walt's demands
>DC and Marvel writers beating the hell out of each other in NYC Parking lots
>Mike Lazzo trying to come up with concepts for an adult cartoon
>Ted Turner scaring the bejeezus out of everyone in Cartoon Network
that sort of thing. There has to be stories about the industries.
>>83202332
Check out Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. Lots of "inside baseball" type stuff. The chapters about the years leading to Marvel's bankruptcy are especially interesting (the problem was so much bigger than just Bob Harras cocking it up as editor-in-chief... if anything he was a minor player in Marvel's downfall compared to then-owner Ronald Perelman and his junk bond trader circle).
>>83202332
>Ted Turner scaring the bejeezus out of everyone in Cartoon Network
All I can picture is Will Forte as Ted Turning yelling while riding a bison on Conan
>>83202574
Anything else? I've read through Jim Shooter's blog as well and I'd really like to know if Steranko or Neal Adams wrote a book. Those guys seem like they'd have fun stories and no qualms about revealing it all.
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>>83202909
You'd also think these days, there'd be tons of tumblr blogs or the like where anonymous workers can vent about their bosses in cartoons and such.
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>>83202909
Steranko has a lot of stories on his Twitter
>>83202967
Heard all of them before though. Wanted to know if he had an actual book.
On the animation side there is an episode of Toonheads called The Great Cartoon Controversy which talks about how MGM accidentally got sent a reel of a WB cartoon and ripped off the plot.
>>83202909
You can try searching through Steven Grant's old Permanent Damage column on CBR. He retired the column a few years ago but I think it's still archived on the site. Grant doesn't really mention anything especially juicy or controversial, but he occasionally has behind-the-scenes stories about working for Marvel and DC in the 1970s and 1980s (it's sort of difficult to imagine now, but back in the late 1970s/early 1980s, he was being touted as one of the writers in a good position to become the next big thing in comics.)
The EC Comics hardcovers have some great stuff about how the artists and writers worked.
>>83203973
I just want more stories about Marvel employees coming into work high as shit to make their stories while talking crap about DC.
Was DC similar in those days? I know they were the more traditional and conservative company, with its employees coming in with ties and jackets, but the comic book industry had to have attracted lunatics.
>>83202332
The Ten Cent Plague has a few stories about that cartoonists who left the industry after the comics code ruined most of the jobs. Or how Will Gaines was high on "Diet Pills" (basically meth) when testifying to the committee. Also Kavalier and Clay. It's fiction, but a lot of it is based on true stories.
Also Eisner's "The Dreamer" if you like hearing about how great Will Eisner is and how many women he banged.
>>83204484
Is there anything about Williiam Gaines and Harvey Kutzman from Mad?
I loved reading about their court cases and how influential they were back in the 60's and 70's after they were forced to diversify the magazine, but cut many things due to the code.
Gaines in particular seems like a bro. His wikipedia entry is just fascinating, especially the section labeled Business Methods
>>83202332
Batman The Animated Series had an artbook which included a lot of stores (some written, some in the form of notes from the '90s) about issues that would happen.
>>83204558
He did an interview with the Comics Journal I don't think they have posted online for free, but is in their back catalog. I remember he said that he was okay with child porn and other crazy shit.
>>83204558
The Corpse on the Imjin book has some stuff about Kutzman
>>83204558
There's some stuff about Gaines in Gerard Jones' book "Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book". It's been so long since I read it though, so nothing specific comes to mind.
>>83204204
>tfw you will never wander NYC high af with Englehart, Gerber and other Marvel writers coming up with plots
