So while I can’t answer too many questions — confidentiality issues, general decency, and limits on the number of hours in the day I can spend here — I’ll try to answer questions that seem of general interest as often as I can.
General caution: please don’t ask me to review portfolios, scripts, or help you get work (time just doesn’t permit).
Not by me, but it’s certainly possible Steve drew inspiration from his previous work.
Not that I recall, but my memory’s not great on points like that.
Definitely by Moorcock. I think it might have been one of the other avatars–maybe Hawkmoon? But I was a fierce reader of his work.
It’s possible. But I’ve loved dragons from Anne McCaffrey’s books too. (And Naomi Novick’s, but those came much later).
I don’t recall any single source of inspiration. I’m a fan of sword & sorcery, and read a lot of it in my youth, but not sure which books led me to Dragonsword. Thanks for remembering it!
It would have been the writer who found it, Michael Fleisher I assume?
I was most fond of AVENGERS and X-MEN of the main Marvel titles…always liked group books with characters with different costumes or powers. But the occasion didn’t come up until a couple of years ago.
Subs were never a great source of revenue in my time, though I delighted in mine when I was a kid. I think during my tenure we always did them, but sometimes promoted, sometimes not, depending on the thoughts of the sales & marketing team.
Thanks so much. I’m content that Carl had it, hopefully enjoyed it, and passed it on.
I have a friend who purchased a copy of the 75th anniversary of DC Comics that looks like it was signed by you to possibly Carl Gafford. Since he has passed away I am wondering if you did in fact sign a copy for him and if you would like to have it back.