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Hey Kids! Comics! Vol 3 #1 (2023) page 22 panel 3: Welcome to the business, kids.

Artist: Howard Chaykin (All)

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Hey Kids! Comics! Vol 3 #1 (2023) page 22 panel 3: Welcome to the business, kids. Comic Art

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Title:	Hey Kids! Comics! Vol 3 #1 (2023) page 22 panel 3: Welcome to the business, kids.
Artist:	Howard Chaykin (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	130
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	12/15/2024
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Description

Howard Chaykin's roman a clef leaves no closet unopened as he explores the seamy sides of the comics industry's business practices. Each issue visits milestones from the Golden Age (not so golden for creators as for fans) to the modern era.

Chaykin drew the elements of each panel separately, then digitally composited them; see the additional image for the final page, in which this image was incorporated into the third panel.

It shows the early days of Chaykin's protagonists, each of whom is a composite of a type of artist: Ray Clarke (Jewish, a middling talent, trying to get by), Benita Heindel (a woman in a man's business, a la Marie Severin), and Ted Whitman (likewise chafing against his "token black" status).

These three high school art students are trying to break into the world of professional comics in 1940. Having just been rejected by Dan Fleischer (representing Will Eisner), they discuss Sid Mitchell (Jack Kirby).

The back of the page contains a headshot of a woman, but I couldn't find it in the published book.

Chaykin has a reputation as a curmudgeon, and one struggles to catch his characters in the act of being happy or kind. But that doesn't mean the stories (his own, and those gathered from colleagues) aren't true.

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Miki Annamanthadoo
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 12/15/2024

Nice pick up, a good reprsentative panel from the book. Some of the characters are easy to recognise like Marie. Others are difficult.

Nils E
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 12/15/2024

Whats the world come to a comic about comics ;-)

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/15/2024

Looks great as the central image of the page. It's a way for Chaykin to leave behind the real struggles of himself and a pastiche of the people that came before with some inside baseball knowledge. Although I don't think they had to have a token anything back then.

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