En parlant de José Luis Garcia-Lopez, Mike DeCarlo vient de poster une Wonder Woman sur son compte Facebook et en profite pour faire quelques commentaires concernant Garcia-Lopez, en évoquant toute l’admiration qu’il a pour lui, et la difficulté quant à encrer son travail.
When I first started get « credits » for my inking-- February, I think, 1981-- one of the first projects I was given was to assist Dick Giordano on the Batman vs Hulk crossover.
I inked The Hulk and Bruce Banner and Dick Inked Batman.
« Unfortunately », the penciler was Jose Luis Garcia Lopez.
I mean that in a strictly complimentary way.
His pencils were so damn good, I thought: « Is THIS what I have to compete against?? »
He is a 73 year old Argentinian, and is to drawing what Mozart is to Music.
He is the Artist’s artist.
No one I know professionally would seriously argue that too strenuously.
Funny thing is, many of you have never heard of him.
A last comment about Garcia Lopez:
I inked everyone from Curt Swan, Gil Kane, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan and Don Heck— just to name a very few.
I also inked a fair amount of Jose’s pencils.
He is the only Penciler who intimidated me.
Why?
As I once told Giordano about 35 years ago:
“I hate inking Lopez…”
“Why…?” Asked Dick.
“Because all I can do is make his pencils WORSE with my inking…”
Giordano smiled.
“I feel the same damn way, Mike…lol”
Voilà. Sauf que ce n’est pas moi qui vois. C’est Bianchi qui fait trrrrrrèèèès souvent référence à une oeuvre dans ses dessins. Donc, là, je me posais la question si c’était une vraie création de bout en bout.
