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Inked by my best friend, Bill Sienkiewicz!

FANS! This Chapter begins with a senses-staggering full-page pin-up of a GIANT MONSTER! But before you click the PUBLISHED link below – These scintillating, pulchritudinous images are rewards for our kind $2 Patreon supporters!

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-Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief, Tabloia Weekly Magazine!

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With reverence and admiration for, and in loving parody of, the Atlas GIANT MONSTER comics of Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and Larry Lieber, whose comics you should buy!

My best friend, Mike Ploog

I met Mike briefly in 2005 at Bristol Con. As with so many artists, I found him at his table, showed him a sample of what I was doing. and asked if I could commission him for a pin-up of a giant monster. He was easy to approach, but pretty busy. He gave me his contact info and said to go ahead and get in touch about a pin-up. I wrote him every month or so, but didn’t ever hear from him. At Comic-Con 2007, in San Diego, Mike was featured as a guest, and I poked around and finally found him one day, with my son in tow, to snap this picture:

I reminded him of our conversation at Bristol Con a couple years earlier, and he said he thought we could work something out. I found him another night, hanging out with Tim Bradstreet and Joe Jusko, and we snapped another pic:

Three very brief interactions. The pin-up came shortly after the con, in the mail.

Mike’s Facebook

My best friend, Mike Ploog, made all the classic horror comics!   Pick up his 1970’s runs on Man Thing, Frankenstein, Ghost Rider, and Werewolf by Night., at your local comics shop !

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My best friend, George Tuska

In my earliest years as a published comics artist, I spent a lot of time looking online at what conventions were happening each year and choosing ones to participate in. All our choices with deciding on what conventions to show at were strategically decided on, based on who the special guests would be.  I was really excited about Orlando’s Mega Con in 2006, because there were a lot of guests I was excited to meet, who I didn’t ever see coming out to my local West Coast shows.

I couldn’t wait to meet George Tuska and Al Feldstein at this one. I knew George must be getting on in his years, because I heard he’d been doing comics since the 1940’s. It turns out, he was ninety at this show! So I really wanted to see him. I suspected he didn’t get out to many conventions, although I noticed he was at MegaCon the year before.

We set up our table, and Elizabeth, as usual, gave me time to walk around and try to talk with everyone. I couldn’t find George Tuska. I spoke to the staff toward the end of the show and learned he had to cancel his appearance at the con, because he had cut his foot, and then he got a staff infection. I was really disappointed knowing I wouldn’t have this opportunity to meet him, since he was one of the great excitements for me, coming to this con.

Upon returning home, I emailed MegaCon to see if they could help me get in touch with him. They were so helpful, and said they forwarded my info on to him. They then got his permission to pass his phone number to me.  They let me know he had recovered from his foot injury

I tried calling multiple times over a week or so, before finally getting his wife on the phone. She said that George was deaf, so I should speak with her.  I told her about my comics project, and she said George would make a pin-up for me. The pin-up came in the mail very quickly, and I was so pleased that for the next few years I’d fantasized about getting another from him, but he passed away in 2009. I was sad I never had an opportunity to meet him face-to-face, but grateful for this pin-up, which I finally published six years after receiving it, in Monstrosis (Doris Danger vol. 2, SLG Publishing) in 2012.

My best friend, George Tuska, made fun comics!   He passed away in 2009.  Pick up nice hardcover reprints of his runs on Iron Man or Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, at your local comics shop !

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