Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II
Q Magazine Comics Reviewer & your Blogger at http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.co.uk/ Husband of the Splendid Wife, walking companion of Eyebrow Girl, the Hound Supreme, escaped teacher, irredeemable amateur
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Ty Templeton & Jack Torrence present the Marvel monsters, including Tim-Boo-Ba and the Thing From Dimension X, on a day-trip to the seaside, from Amazing Heroes #138, 1988.
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Sam Agro & Ty Templeton present a day at the beach for Modok, the Leader & the Gargoyle, from the Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special ‘91.
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Ty Templeton depicts a day at the beach, Bizarro-style, from the Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special ‘91.
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A typically joyous take by Ty Templeton of Stanley And His Monster, from Amazing Heroes #164, 1989.
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Ty Templeton’s wonderful “How To Lie To An Editor” strip, from DC’s “Shop Talk”, April 94, a monthly newsletter for freelancers that I had no idea even existed until recently.
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“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(Art by Ty Templeton, clipped originally from one of the Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Specials)
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“A house is a machine for living in.”
Le Corbusier
(Panels from Gerard Jones, Curt Swan & Ty Templeton’s “The Little Clubhouse That Could”, from Secret Origins #46, DC Comics, 1989)
