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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
APOCALYPSE: Needing to Stage Him as Larger Than Life Read More »
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 …
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 …
STRANGE DOCTORS, GODS, & ALIENS: THE MARVEL UNIVERSE Read More »
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 …
IMAGES & WORDS: EQUALLY ESSENTIAL, STRONGER TOGETHER Read More »
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 …
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 …
WOLVERINE GRIEVES FOR MORPH: The Art of Collaboration Read More »
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 …
The sentinels perfectly embodied the human over-reaction to the discovery of mutants. And we could trash them.
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 …