X-MEN at SAN DIEGO!
We are pleased to announce that we will be at the San Diego Comic Con next week. We will be at two panels. First is SPOTLIGHT ON LARRY HOUSTON on …
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GETTING THE OPENING RIGHT
People love the opening titles of X-MEN:TAS. I even have a short chapter in the upcoming book about their creation. In the short time given Larry Houston and Will Meugniot …
We’re Back: It Started with “Pryde”
Happy New Year! 2017 is the 25th anniversary of the premiere preview of X-MEN:TAS (10/31/92). It’s going to be quite a year. In February we’re going to be at San …
APOCALYPSE: Needing to Stage Him as Larger Than Life
Staging a character — whether within a camera frame or on a storyboard panel, can be the difference between success and failure. We just screened the recent feature X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. …
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1992 SIBLING RIVALRY
This blog exists to celebrate an animated super-hero television series that we, with struggling humility and extreme prejudice, believe is among the best ever made; none better. Were there others …
STRANGE DOCTORS, GODS, & ALIENS: THE MARVEL UNIVERSE
When we all signed on to do X-MEN:TAS in February, 1992, new colleagues Larry Houston and Will Meugniot introduced me to “The Marvel Universe.” At first I believed it simply …
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IMAGES & WORDS: EQUALLY ESSENTIAL, STRONGER TOGETHER
There have forever been questions about art, how it affects us, which elements are most important. Is it the images or the words? Movies and TV and live theater and …
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DEADPOOL GETS HIS SCREEN DEBUT
This year’s Deadpool feature movie was a fun mega-hit. Ryan Reynolds nailed it. What few fans realize is that the character Deadpool got his first bits of screen time on our …
WOLVERINE GRIEVES FOR MORPH: The Art of Collaboration
The single most important creative decision we made was killing Morph in the opening two-part story. Mark Edens and I insisted that we show the audience that what the X-Men …
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THE FIRST IMAGE
The first image of the first episode of X-MEN:TAS was of an unnamed mutant on a rampage. Please see the first two panels of Will Meugniot and Larry Houston’s storyboard …
OUR FIRST VILLAINS
The sentinels perfectly embodied the human over-reaction to the discovery of mutants. And we could trash them.
TWO OF OUR X-WOMEN IN ACTION
Our female X-Men were always the equal of their male partners. This storyboard page – one of perhaps 20,000 drawn and re-drawn over 76 episodes – shows the care with …