Comments on: Underappreciated Artist Spotlight - Doug Wildey

By: xurxo

xurxo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:21:04 +0000

Cuando era niÃ±o en Argentina, creÃa que "Hanna Barbera" era una seÃ±ora muy cool, que contaba unas historias que lo tenÃan todo, acciÃ³n, misterio, incluso la dosis justa de cinÃsmo .Con el correr de los aÃ±os supe Hanna no era una mujer, eran dos tipos, no sabÃa nada de Doug Wildey , pero aun asÃ intuÃa que esos no eran unos dibujitos como cualquier otros. Creo que ya no las hacen igual, eran lo maximo. Quede realmente marcado por ese estilo de narrar, Doug es una de mis musas, a la hora de sentarme a dibujar.

By: Lynxara

Lynxara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:09:21 +0000

I must chime in to say that I also saw tons of reruns of Turbo Teen as a kid via the Cartoon Express, and loved it to death for its nonstop action and pure weirdness. It was a much better watch than a lot of the other cartoons on the block.

Finding out years later about all the talent that worked on it just makes me happier to have gotten to see it when I was at just the right age to not find anything wrong with it.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:54:27 +0000

"Plus, did you know Wildey was the model for Peevy in Dave Stevensâ€™ Rocketeer comics?"

Now that's cool!

By: sterg

sterg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:14:16 +0000

Great choice, Brian!
Plus, did you know Wildey was the model for Peevy in Dave Stevens' Rocketeer comics?

By: PÃ³l Rua

PÃ³l Rua — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:03:50 +0000

Doug Wildey - Oh HELL yes!

Nice call, Scott.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:28:52 +0000

PS to Brian/Scott â€” Itâ€™s spelled JONNY Quest. No â€œHâ€.

In Canada, there's an H.

Yeah, that's the ticket!

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:18 +0000

This is shaping up to be a great series -- Doug Wildey is another one of my favorites! I'm proud to own 3 pages by him - page 20 from a Sgt. Rock Special, a page from his story in Blackhawk #268, and an oversize Western page. They are all absolutely beautiful.

Some suggestions for other underappreciated artists: Don Newton, Mike Parobeck, Steve Rude, Dick Dillin, Nick Cardy & Tom Yeates.

An "Underappreciated Writers" series would be cool, too. My first nominee: Mark Evanier.

PS to Brian/Scott -- It's spelled JONNY Quest. No "H".

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:18:23 +0000

Love the Harlan Ellison adaptation- my first exposure to Wildey's work, as well.

By: GarBut

GarBut — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:02:05 +0000

Starring Tom Selleck as RIO... Good call, a great artist, very under-rated.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:27:22 +0000

I never realized his career stretched that far back. My familiarity with Wildey comes from reading a lot of Comico titles back in the 80's and early 90's and seeing his name attached to the RIO and JONNY QUEST books. Sad to say I never got around to reading them, but the artwork in the ads, especially for RIO, always looked beautiful.

By: Michael Hoskin

Michael Hoskin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:55:28 +0000

Huh, the Nightmare art seems very different than what I'm used to from Wildey - kind of a Gene Colan look.

By: DBish

DBish — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:42:22 +0000

^^^ I liked Turbo Teen as a kid; USA Cartoon Express.

Anyways, I've only been familiar with WIldey's work on Jonny Quest, one of my favorite animated series ever, and had no idea he was that active in comics . It's cool to learn something.

By: Zack Smith

Zack Smith — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:20:31 +0000

Wildey was indeed a master. I didn't know he did comics until a story in HARLAN ELLISON'S DREAM CORRIDOR published after his death, but afterward I sought out the back issues of RIO and JONNY QUEST that he did -- amazing, amazing stuff.

He did some work at Ruby-Spears in the 1980s working on some of the worst animated shows of all time...with the likes of Jack Kirby and Alfredo Alcala. I know Jim Woodring worked with them -- I would love it if there was a volume talking about what it was like to work there! What a collection of talent! Okay, so it was for TURBO TEEN, but just having them all in the same room...