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Q&A with Sean Clarke
| Q: | Which piece in your gallery is your favorite and why? |
| A: | Hard to beat Mike Ploog's Werewolf By Night #13 splash page. I copied this art incessantly as a kid, and it was very influential to my nascent development as a fledgling artist. Every page in this story (as well as WBN #2) is like pure, uncut catnip to me. |
| Q: | Please tell us a little about yourself. |
| A: | I was born in Pre-cataclysmic Atlantis c. 20,000 BC. At the time Atlantis was ruled by barbarian tribes. I was native to a tribe settled in the Tiger Valley of Atlantis. However, the valley and my tribe were destroyed by a flood while I was still a toddler. I managed to survive and spend a few years as a feral child. I was eventually captured by the Sea-Monkey tribe and was adopted into it. However, as an adolescent I attempted to prevent an execution and was consequently exiled from Atlantis. Following a couple of years as a galley slave, I tried the life of a pirate between my late adolescence and my early twenties. My fighting skills and courage allowed me to become captain of my own ship. I set out creating a fearsome reputation for myself in the seas surrounding Atlantis and Thuria. Married with two college-aged daughters, I lost my ship and crew in a naval battle off the coast of Valusia but once again survived. I settled in Massachusetts as a human service wage slave. In 2006, I launched twice weekly, year round open-participation life drawing sessions at Amherst College. My figurative art hobby proved short-lived, as I was soon captured by the Valusians and imprisoned in a dungeon. My captors soon offered me a choice: execution or service as a gladiator. I chose the latter. A lifelong collector of comics, music and art, I proved an effective combatant and gained fame in the arenas of the capital. Tuzun Thune the Enabler helped me in regaining my freedom… freedom I wasted by squandering all available (and unavailable) meager funds on comic art like a damn fool. |
| Q: | How long have you been collecting comic art and what prompted you to start? |
| A: | I purchased my first comic art, a mundane Barry Smith Kazar page, from cartoonist Peter Laird at his comics shop (actually a jerry-rigged janitor's closet) "The Little Used Book Store" in Northampton, MA, when I was probably around thirteen years old. I think I paid $40, which was a substantial hill of cash back then. Little did I realize what other comic art $40 could buy in 1977! I was making my own comics at the time, and the idea of owning any original art by Barry Smith, who I worshipped as a god, was very compelling! Sadly, it was many years before I bought any more comic art, as I was focused on completing runs of the Marvel comics I liked. |
| Q: | How do you display/store your collection at home? |
| A: | I store my comic art in a cool, dry and dark place in order to maintain its efficacy, potency and purity, and to protect it from any tangible pleasure that "owning" it might bestow. I use flat files to hide my precious from the yellowface, but a few same-size color xeroxes on card stock migrate from the flat files to the comic room/studio walls. |
| Q: | What are your top five most wanted original pages or commissions? |
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1. My ultimate grail quest and the unruly passion of my collecting hobby is to reunite Gene Colan and Bill Everett's "And To All A Good Night" Black Widow story from Amazing Adventures #5.
2. I am also seeking any/all Colan/Everett pages from their two other Black Widow ten-pagers, Amazing Adventures #'s 3 and 4. 3. Hell yeah! Colan/Everett romance art from from My Love #13, 15 and 16, and any pages from Captain America #136 and 137, and pages from Tales To Astonish #79 and 85 (Sub-mariner stories). Let's go all in on this madness! 4. Bill Everett Black Widow pin-up from Daredevil #81, and ANY Everett inked Black Widow (DD #83, Amazing Adventures 3-8) 5. Only five? Let's go with any/all pages from Mike Ploog's Werewolf By Night #13 (but anything from his other issues I like, too). Truthfully, I like all kinds of art, but if I had to narrow it down, those are my most desired pages. |
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