Comments on: Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: Underappreciated Artist Spotlight – Pat Boyette

By: Allen Smith

Allen Smith — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:49:28 +0000

Agree with your comments re: Pat Boyette. His art wasn’t polished, but it was appealing and unique. I enjoyed many of his horror stories for Charlton, as well as his Warren work. For someone who didn’t really start drawing comics seriously until relatively late in life, his art is great. But, perhaps an acquired taste for some. Doesn’t matter, the work was good and often great.

By: jason hyde

jason hyde — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:39:18 +0000

I’ve actually seen Boyette’s movie Dungeon of Harrow. It’s completely insane, like one of those Charlton horror comics come to life. I wouldn’t necessarily say I’d recommend it, at least not to anyone who isn’t already fond of no-budget insanity, but it’s certainly unique.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:22:35 +0000

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By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:33:13 +0000

Thank you! Greg! Do you know how long this has bugged me! When I saw the picture I remembered like a movie reel in my head. But I did really think they went to outer space. Did they ever do that? Anyway thanks so much. Now, can anyone tell me if it is available to purchase? I’m so glad I found this site! I’m not that new to using the internet so this just makes my milineum. (how do you spell that)?

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:47:17 +0000

Betty, from your description of the characters and the fact you found it in a library, I'm thinking it was probably Tintin.

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:06:58 +0000

I’m looking for a comic that I use to read as a young girl in the local library. It was actually a book with a compliation of the same comic in it. It had the following characters as I remember them: a small boy, a scottish terrier dog, a bald headed professor and a bearded guy that later remined me of Popeye’s nemises Bluto. They were always having adventures sometimes getting into trouble and having to get bailed out of one jam or another. I also remember they liked to go into outerspace in a ship that reminded me of Flash Gordon. I just loved looking at this but I cannot remember the name of it. It had a very ’50ish, ’60ish look if I am rembering that right in the way it was drawn and colored. I was a young girl in the late ’60′s early ’70′s so I hope you can give me some idea. It’s been really bugging me not being able to remember the name of it.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

By: Andy Hajny

Andy Hajny — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:57:42 +0000

Pat Boyette was never really my “cup of tea”. As you state in your article, he started drawing The Phantom after Jim Aparo’s great run and nothing could ever top that. His figures were always too stiff, and the facial expressions hardly ever differed from panel to panel.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:09:18 +0000

Great choice. As I’ve noted before in the Classic Comics Forum, I was somewhat put off (like you, I see) by Boyette’s stuff when I first encountered it as a kid. I think I began appreciating his style when I came across his work on, of all things, the “Tarantula” feature in Atlas Seaboard’s WEIRD SUSPENSE. Somehow, he was able to capture & convey the … I dunno … numinousness (numinosity?) of a good horror story.

These days, I’ll happily buy anything he drew.