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Daredevil convention drawing 1992 – David Mazzucchelli

Artists: David Mazzucchelli (Penciller) , David Mazzucchelli (Inker)

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Title:	Daredevil convention drawing 1992 – David Mazzucchelli
Artist:	David Mazzucchelli (Penciller)
Artist:	David Mazzucchelli (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Convention Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	783
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Comments:	9
Added to Site:	9/21/2022
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[continued from the previous post]

I did manage to find someone to publish the interview, probably via a contact given to me by either Jenni or Luke. In the nine months or so that it took me to transcribe the discussion I had from a low base managed to pick up enough know-how to submit the interview in a form that was desktop-published camera-ready with the two drawings I am posting, panels from DM’s other work including from Rubber Blanket 3, and the accompanying photograph. No payment was made and I was just happy for the interview to be seen, and in a publication with an alternative comics ethos to boot. I thought the interview was printed in an obscure black and white UK zine called BattleGround but the two digitised issues of BattleGround on the internet don’t seem to feature the interview and were it not for my distinctly remembering they stripped out all the artwork and illustrations I provided and ran it as just straight text then I would think my memory was playing tricks on me. My one comp copy is lost amidst the detritus of 30+ years. Why did they discard all the formatting and have someone laboriously type up all the text again (OCR software was not readily available in 1992)? Space limitations, fear of copyright infringement? Who knows?

If you are interested in reading the interview I will be totally frank and say that the effort you might expend in tracking it down would only increase the exasperation you might feel in reading it if you could find a copy, and this is not through any fault of DM. As the interview was my first and a straight transcript, and not an article which feature quotes, then my rather rudimentary interview technique is laid bare: bombarding the interview subject with a series of questions. “Questioning is not the mode of conversation amongst gentlemen,” as Dr Johnson said. I would instead point you towards the interview DM made with The Comics Journal in issue 194 in which the interviewer was much more intelligent and informed than I was and the conversation flows organically.

Incidentally, and for its relevance to the readers of CAF, I did not want to taint my high-minded dialogue with DM about comic art and the wider cultural value of the artform by broaching the base subject of commerce and asking whether he was selling any of his original art. In other words, it never crossed my mind for a second to query him about this. Sigh.

My great thanks once again to DM for the two beautiful drawings, the first of which “christened” the drawing book which was to accompany me for the remaining UKCACs I attended. Also I should thank him for his extreme patience during the interview. I am sorry to be testing his patience again by making him wait [almost 30 years!]for a hardcopy of the interview I made with him but just as soon as I track down my one copy (which I don’t remember reading and which I will not read when I find it) I will send it on together with all the photographs I took which are relevant to him.

These two drawings were executed on the 19th and 20th September, 1992 (as they used to say at the end of the intro to The Comics Journal interviews; well, sort of).

For a long time I have found September slightly depressing, and even though I would never have called myself a Royalist/Monarchist there was extra reason to feel sad this year, together with the fact that I lost an uncle and an aunt, both to cancer, this month. Prior to this year the main reason for September being such a downer for me is that UKCAC took place in September or the start of October, except for the last three instances (yes, Wikipedia is wrong about 1996). I have been to a handful of other comic conventions since UKCAC ended in 1998 but they are just not the same. “Has the world changed or have I changed?” Probably a bit of both is the accurate answer. This upload makes it three from three where I acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Frank and Hassan, the two main organisers of UKCAC, without whom this posting would not exist. I never spoke to Frank who always seemed to be busy, busy, busy; and I exchanged words with Hassan only once when as we were all leaving at the end of the convention one year and I saw him taking down the posters I told him what a great time I had had and that I was already looking forward to the following year’s event, which was a comment he accepted graciously. I hope that one day I will see them again in person and thank them properly for all the happy memories I associate with UKCAC. It is sorely missed.

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Mark V
Member Since 2021

Posted on 9/21/2022

I'm sorry for your loss but thank you for sharing the story behind the art.

Simon Ma
Member Since 2013

Posted on 10/2/2022

Mark V wrote:

I'm sorry for your loss but thank you for sharing the story behind the art.

Thank you for your condolences and kind words of appreciation.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/22/2022

These are great pieces with a meaningful experience attached. I think stories behind some of the art we see on CAF is just as interesting as the art itself.

Simon Ma
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 10/2/2022

Marcus Wai wrote:

These are great pieces with a meaningful experience attached. I think stories behind some of the art we see on CAF is just as interesting as the art itself.

Thank you for your comment. It means something to me that someone as deeply immersed in the hobby as you can find something of interest in what I upload.

Anthony F
Member Since 2004

Posted on 9/24/2022

Just as wonderful to read your description, as to view the art and photos from 1992! Very nice Daredevil, and interesting to know back then, he was already not a fan of sketching Batman.

Simon Ma
Member Since 2013

Posted on 10/2/2022

Anthony F wrote:

Just as wonderful to read your description, as to view the art and photos from 1992! Very nice Daredevil, and interesting to know back then, he was already not a fan of sketching Batman.

Thank you, and you know you could be right. It is sort of well-documented that the ambivalence that DM felt about superheroes contributed to him turning away from the genre post-Year One. But I am also pretty sure that if I had asked him for something totally against his principles then he would have had no hesitation in shutting me down: I saw someone ask to have signed their hardcover copy of The Complete Frank Miller Batman (the one which reprints Year One, DKR, and the Denny O’Neil scripted Christmas Batman story) and DM would not do it because it was leatherbound. Respect.

Anthony F
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 10/2/2022

Simon Ma wrote:

Wow, I never heard that story about the Complete Frank Miller (which I also would have asked to get signed). But I have seen that Batman he drew for Chip Kidd (from the Society of Illustrators exhibit), which says "To Chip - I hope this is the last time I draw this guy. '92"

Matt Dicke
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 11/6/2022

I don't recall ever seeing a DD from his Rubber blanket era, very cool. What a way to experience a con- 2 great drawings and an interview from one of the best in the industry. Thank you for sharing. And so sorry for your loss.

gene o
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 3/29/2024

woah! A Mazz DD. Truly fantastic!

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