John Buscema Sketchbook

J. David Spurlock is an award-winning author, historian, educator, advocate for artists' rights, documentary filmmaker and associate to star talents Frazetta, Basil Gogos, Neal Adams, Steranko, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Julius Schwartz, Wally Wood and many more. Spurlock's book How to Draw Chiller Monsters, for Random House, rose as high as #18 on the Bookspan best-seller list. Spurlock's IPPY Award-winning book, Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage, has been universally acclaimed including by MTV and by the Village Voice who proclaimed it one of The Best of 2013. In 2012, Spurlock was appointed Director of the Wallace Wood Estate. Wood is the Hugo Award recognized illustrator of Galaxy and Planet Stories as well as the comic-book Hall of Fame co-creator of MAD, Mars Attacks, Daredevil and Weird Science. A partial list of Spurlock's guest speaking engagements include: many San Diego Comic-Con presentations, 2013 WorldCon (various lecture panels including on Robert E. Howard, Copyright Law, and on Margaret Brundage); with Stan Lee for Dragon Con TV and a live audience if 4,600; The Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine re-launch convention; the Frank Frazetta tribute event at the San Diego Comic-Con; Rutgers School of Law; and University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

James Steranko's comics career was short but explosive. Every title and character that he worked on -- including Daredevil, Captain America, X-Men, and Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. -- was transformed, visually and narratively. He immersed himself in the history of pulp heroes but has combined comics traditions with innovative elements of commercial art and cinematic imagery. He wrote and published two volumes of The Steranko History of Comics in 1970 and 1972, and through his publishing company, Supergraphics, launched a comics news zine called Comixscene, which evolved into Prevue and ran for 20 years until 1994. His numerous honors include induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2006.