Comments on: RIP, Joe Edwards http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mikado http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-52587 Mikado Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:08:27 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/#comment-52587 I long ago gave up "comics" for manga, but, I recall fondly the big "Lil Jinx Christmas Bag Giant" issues and the nice little "break" the LJ strip gave the young readers of Archie Comics from the "main" stories of Archie and the gang...Nice work Joe! I long ago gave up “comics” for manga, but, I recall fondly the big “Lil Jinx Christmas Bag Giant” issues and the nice little “break” the LJ strip gave the young readers of Archie Comics from the “main” stories of Archie and the gang…Nice work Joe!

]]> By: Kevin Shaw http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-52115 Kevin Shaw Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:47:11 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/#comment-52115 I, for one, DO CARE. For some years I'd been hopeing that SOMEONE could get Joe to Comic-Con, but to no avail. I was once told by long-time 'Archie' scribe George Gladir that Joe had been very ill, so much so that getting to any convention was unlikely. I've long been a fan of his work (my subcription to Lil Jinx in the early 70s was one of the first I ever had to ANY publication) but knew almost nothing of the man behind the work until a few internet postings following his death. Not mentioned was his run on the title "Archie and Me" during the 60s which were mostly book-length stories (divided into chapters) featuring Mr. Weatherbee with Archie, which were also reprinted as paperback collections by Bantam Books in the late 60s/early 70s.His super-hero spoof "Captain Sprocket" that ran in "Archies Madhouse" (written by Gladir?) was a fave of myself and my older siblings in the mid-60s. Also not mentioned was his run on Archies own 'Archie' clone "Wilber" that must have lasted about a decade until he was replaced by Decarlo on the title for the final few issues I'd always suspected that Joe wrote his own stuff in addition to doing the art chores as his stuff was always a bit different than the more screwball, more slapstick stories in the other Archie stories that were contemporary to his. Does anyone know of any extended bio and/or interview with him? -or with Harry Lucey or Samm Schwartz? Never met the man, but he will be deeply missed. I, for one, DO CARE. For some years I’d been hopeing that SOMEONE could get Joe to Comic-Con, but to no avail. I was once told by long-time ‘Archie’ scribe George Gladir that Joe had been very ill, so much so that getting to any convention was unlikely. I’ve long been a fan of his work (my subcription to Lil Jinx in the early 70s was one of the first I ever had to ANY publication) but knew almost nothing of the man behind the work until a few internet postings following his death.
Not mentioned was his run on the title “Archie and Me” during the 60s which were mostly book-length stories (divided into chapters) featuring Mr. Weatherbee with Archie, which were also reprinted as paperback collections by Bantam Books in the late 60s/early 70s.His super-hero spoof “Captain Sprocket” that ran in “Archies Madhouse” (written by Gladir?) was a fave of myself and my older siblings in the mid-60s. Also not mentioned was his run on Archies own ‘Archie’ clone “Wilber” that must have lasted about a decade until he was replaced by Decarlo on the title for the final few issues
I’d always suspected that Joe wrote his own stuff in addition to doing the art chores as his stuff was always a bit different than the more screwball, more slapstick stories in the other Archie stories that were contemporary to his.
Does anyone know of any extended bio and/or interview with him? -or with Harry Lucey or Samm Schwartz?
Never met the man, but he will be deeply missed.

]]> By: Bill Reed http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/comment-page-1/#comment-51925 Bill Reed Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:30:10 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/12/rip-joe-edwards/#comment-51925 It's a damn shame. And also a damn shame no one seems to care. It’s a damn shame.

And also a damn shame no one seems to care.

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