Posted on 6/23/2025

... and a nice and friendly guy as well – they do not always go together. That is a beautifully-rendered Joker which reminds me of the Alex Ross version. Great score. 

Posted on 6/23/2025

Would love to meet him. I highly rate his work. Glad to hear he's nice. I often get shocked when I dig into world famous artists lives and find out how awful many of them were. Still like their art but would not want to hang around with them, which would be difficult anyway as many of the ones I really like are long gone.

Posted on 6/24/2025

“Never meet your heroes,” has never been a phrase that holds much water, in my experience at least, when it comes to comics creators at conventions (or film directors in public places but that is a story for later this week). I have always found them friendly, courteous and accommodating even after the 45 minutes plus it had taken me to get to the front of the queue of 60+ people who were lining up for FOC convention sketches. If you are at a loose end the weekend after next then I have heard that Roger is attending the Film/TV/Comic convention at London’s Olympia. If the line for him is too off-putting then there is always the option of queuing to see Mel Gibson. I know which of the two I would prefer to have sitting next to me on a long train journey. It would not be President Trump’s Special Ambassador to Hollywood, regardless of how many exciting films he has made. What was that you were saying about how some artists were awful in real life?

Posted on 6/26/2025

I might have more fun talking to Mad Mel. Hes always watchable in films. Just avoid religion and a few other topics. Lol. I remember being quite shocked at how dull the conversational skills of one omy favourite artists was when I searched for interviews online they did. Sadly I am up to my eyeballs in debt after buying a few too many pages that I should not have  last year as three pages from a favourite issue showed up. Its bad being poor. I sell or trade to buy these days. A holiday is out of the question at the moment. Mel could not be worse than one of my favourite artists, Norman Lindsay. I was pretty shocked when I read one of his more personal books. Love his work but would not liked to have met him after reading it.

1 - Posted on 6/28/2025

“Religion”? Isn’t there another sensitive subject you should never bring up with strangers in polite conversation? If only I could remember what it was. Oh dear, if you don’t get on with dull conversationalists. Perhaps we had better put off our reciprocal in-person visits as I am mind-numbingly tedious and boring; like a lot of other stunningly good-looking people I have never felt the need to cultivate a personality in the way ordinary people have to to compensate for their ordinariness. “Deep down I am quite shallow,” as famed looker Ava Gardner is reputed to have quipped. Sorry to hear about your financial situation. Roger was supposed to be a guest at this weekend’s Macc-Pow Comic Festival. Perhaps he will travel to your neck of the woods if you have anything like that in your area. Norman Lindsay is a new one on me, although I did see Sirens many years ago on TV and there were moments in it which were quite diverting, and Sam Neill is always worth watching.