Today the fine folks at DC announced Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia will be out April Fools' Day 2025. It's by Gabe Soria and me- I met Gabe in 2019 (the very weekend he pitched the idea to what was then DC Ink!'s Michele Wells) at a con in New Orleans. Gabe's a NOLA resident, a fellow Batman '66 veteran, and works at one of the greatest record stores I've ever shopped at. He'd been nurturing the idea for years, and I happened to be in the right place at the right time to eventually draw it. Jimmy was greenlit, and our old '66 editor Jim Chadwick tapped me to draw it. I had other stuff to clear out of the way, and last spring we finally got started- after Jim had passed the book to Kristy Quinn, my editor on Bombshells United and Teen Titans Go! Kristy's the best, Jim's retired and living abroad, everyone's happy :) Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia finds Jimmy making a dumb mistake, and rather than getting his pal Superman to fix things ...
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I was there, too! Didn't meet Stanley, either. My biggest memory was discovering a room full of giant Jeff Jones paintings! In ore recent years, I was able to become an online friend of the now-late artist and I'm quoted on her website!
ReplyDeleteI remember a room of Jones/Wrightson/Kaluta/Windsor-Smith art at the following year's show in NYC. Probably off my funnybook radar in '77 :)
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