tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59751257404778864652024-02-18T19:05:20.680-08:00The Best of PS Magazine 1951-2011The U.S. Army's monthly "PS Magazine" is regarded internationally as the most successful and longest-running communication program utilizing sequential art to convey technical and motivational information. In June of 2011, this amazing publication marked its Sixtieth Anniversary with Issue No. 703.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-12220632888679623782014-05-06T13:55:00.001-07:002014-05-06T14:04:36.923-07:0040 - Fourth 'PS' Editor, Hubbard, Dies at 88<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS Magazine</span></b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> staffers,
along with fans and friends of the U.S. Army’s internationally acclaimed
pioneering publication in the sequential art arena, are acknowledging with
regret the death on April 26 of Donald Keith Hubbard, who served as the fourth
editor of </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for nearly nine
years, from January of 1983 until November of 1991.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jim Kidd, whom Hubbard succeeded, and I brought Don on board
as a writer in July of 1954 when </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> was
at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland. He later became production manager.
When I left in September of 1963, after serving ten year’s as the magazine’s
first managing editor, Don was moved into the managing editor’s slot where he
served nearly twenty years until Kidd’s retirement.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the autumn of 1950, the year before </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS Magazine </span></b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">was established, I took the photo below showing Kidd
and Hubbard in the School of Journalism booth during Mountaineer Days at West
Virginia University.</span></b></span></span></div>
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is at left, manning a lever-operated platen-press. Hubbard, center, is
coordinating the handsetting of type for individual’s names in the main
headline on a “dummy” tabloid page. I was in my final semester before
graduation and working as a fulltime reporter-photographer for the Morgantown
Dominion-News.</span></span></b></div>
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from Alderson, W.Va., where he was the owner, publisher, editor, Linotype
operator, and general factotum for </span></span></b></span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Alderson Times</span></span></b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, which he had purchased after graduating from WVU.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hubbard was one of three </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> editors who had been awarded the Bronze Star for valor during World
War II. The others were Jacob Hay, who preceded Kidd, and Kidd, who was twice
decorated.</span></span></b></span></div>
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Kidd’s two citations for valor were as a platoon officer in the 69th Infantry
Division in France and Germany. Hubbard was a platoon scout with the 44th
Infantry Division in France and Germany, and received the Bronze Star and the
Combat Infantry Badge.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Don had a higher regard, however, for the Department of the
Army Decoration for exceptional Civilian Service presented to him by the
Secretary of the Army in the year preceding his retirement.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This highest possible civilian award
cited his cumulative efforts with </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">
from May 1964 to November 1990.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Don was 88. Funeral services and
burial were conducted April 30 in Winchester, Ky., where he and his wife, the
Rev. Dr. Mallonee Hubbard, resided following his retirement from </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Those in the montage shown above, left to right, appeared on <i>PS</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b> 40 (January 1956), <i>PS</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b> 85 (December 1959), and <i>PS</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b> 51 (December 1956).<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Eisner pitched a major changeup, however, with the “see-through” New Year’s cover(s) that he did for <i>PS</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b> 74 (December 1958). In Chapter Four, “Frame for the Art,” in <i><a href="http://willandpsmagazine.com/">Will Eisner</a></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><a href="http://willandpsmagazine.com/"> and PS </a><i><a href="http://willandpsmagazine.com/">Magazine</a></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>, I describe a meeting at Raritan Arsenal in New Jersey in early autumn of 1958 at which Will first brought the concept to the table. Initially, it was laughed at and casually dismissed as being too troublesome—which only served to rile him into insisting on tackling the challenge.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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at Redstone Arsenal (Huntsville, Alabama) introduced Colonel Charles “Chuck” B.
Salvo as the new leader of the U.S. Army Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA),
which is under the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC). The </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS Magazine</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> program is an
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remarks at </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">the </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration, click </span></span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/GENERAL_VIA.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">here</span></span></span></a></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">. </span></span></span></b><br />
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Bachelor of Science in biology, and was commissioned Infantry in 1986. After
completing the infantry officer basic course and ranger school, he was assigned
to the 2nd Battalion (ABN) 187th Infantry battalion, Fort Kobbe, Panama, where
he served as a rifle platoon leader, company executive officer, and earned the
Expert Infantryman Badge, Jungle Expert Badge, and graduated from jumpmaster
school. He was selected for promotion to captain and re-branched Quartermaster
in 1989 and was assigned to the 407th S&T Battalion, 82d Airborne Division
where he deployed for Operation Desert Shield/Storm and served as a company
commander and battalion S3. At Fort Lee, Virginia, he served as aide-de-camp for the
CG Combined Arms Support Command and taught advanced aerial delivery school. In
the 10th Mountain Division, he served as DISCOM S3, and Support Operations
Officer, and later Executive Officer, 210th FSB.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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acquisition and procurement management, graduated from the Combined Arms Staff
School and was later assigned to Joint Forces Command. After graduating from
the Joint and Combined Warfighting School in Norfolk, VA, he was selected for a command slot in the 3rd Infantry Division where he led the 203rd
Forward Support Battalion/Brigade Support Battalion for 36 months and led the
organization through two Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) tours, to include OIF I,
two Combat Training Center rotations, and transformed the organization from a
forward support battalion to a brigade support battalion consisting of five
companies and over 1,200 soldiers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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College, he was assigned as Director, force integration and joint concepts,
Army G4, the Pentagon. He was selected to command of the Army and Air Force
Exchange, for OIF/OEF and Europe, a $6 billion/year in sales organization, for
36 months, and led the organization through the drawdown in Iraq, the surge in
Afghanistan, and transformation in Europe. Prior to assuming command of LOGSA,
he served as Executive Officer to the Executive Deputy to the Commanding
General, AMC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Defense Meritorious Service
Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Ranger Tab,
Combat Action Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, Rigger Badge, Master Parachutist
Badge, Jungle Expert Badge, Panamanian and Australian Airborne wings, the Army
Staff Badge, and the Army physical fitness badge (current).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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Master Sergeant Bull Dozer, I left a misperception with a few readers that the
Engineers’ icon from the </span></span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">PS</span></span></span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> past was returning to the magazine’s
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an issue of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. With the exception of a few breaks, he followed </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> until he retired
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to Iraq in 2004, Roberts was relieved to find </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> still going strong
with Joe Kubert as the signature artist. Following Will Eisner’s death, Roberts
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in several genres. Several of Erwin K. Roberts’s works are available on </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Erwin%20K.%20Roberts&page=1&rh=n:283155,p_27:Erwin%20K.%20Roberts"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Amazon</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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regarding the absence of an artist’s signature on Front Covers of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> are not new, but they have been
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719 (October 2012), is the last</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> cover that is attributable to Joe, even though it
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Tell-A-Graphics, the Kubert business entity that has held the </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> contract for creative art,
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second longest period of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> production. Will Eisner’s 227 issues still stand at the
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deliberate change to the then existing culture of the publication by converting
the office layout to a newsroom “bullpen” arrangement (as I described in detail
in </span><i><a href="http://www.willeisnerandpsmagazine.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Will Eisner and PS Magazine</span></a></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">).<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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having left this world and us on August 12. This humble Birthday Remembrance is
intended as a respectful appreciation of his masterful creativity as an artist
and the absolute effervescence of his presence.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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last <i>PS</i> cover that is attributable to Joe, even though it does not bear his
iconic sig. He penciled the entire piece and inked the principal foreground
character in what turned out to be his last session at the drawing board before
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>This final Joe Kubert cover for the U.S. Army’s famous graphic communications pacesetter publication is the second in a two-step introduction process for a new female character named Cloe. (No! It’s not supposed to have an “h” in it.) The name is an acronym representing Common Logistics Operating Environment. The lady herself says it stands for Cool Logistician and Operator Extraordinaire!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>Joe’s death occurred just a little more than halfway through his twelfth year (beginning in February of 2012) as the <i>PS</i> contractor for creative art, design, and pre-press services. His organization continues to meet all production schedules.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>I had the pleasure of getting to know Joe over a three-day span in June of 2011 in Huntsville, Alabama, where we participated in the official celebration at Redstone Arsenal of the sixtieth anniversary of <i>PS Magazine</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>. The formalities took place in a roadhouse-style steak-joint where the floor was covered with discarded peanut-shells.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>If you would like to see a video clip of the speech Joe was making in the picture above, just click <a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/JOE_KUBERT.html">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>The icing on the cake was our continued collaboration in presenting this blog. I shall endeavor to continue it in the spirit in which it was created.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>¶ Key military leaders’ presentations complete Video Collection<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><b>¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today</b></span></div>
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—The photos in this post were taken during the Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration of <i>PS Magazine</i>, June 27, 2011, at Redstone Arsenal, by Pete Carlsson and Clay Fitzgerald.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-57423126878786100572012-03-26T18:06:00.006-07:002012-03-26T18:39:03.255-07:0034 – Video: Fitz Describes Early PS Perils, Challenges, and Near Crib-Death<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZGmDVeCwwTyNCFjh88JqFF-aFJi3JAp3mQLCyXcJrjXSccW9h0ib-oW9SXADldWQGlX3w3ZC7c9y8fmM6KVO3iysZA-aALZNPytC87C2_LaXaDoL6rgm0XUaxS9EknS_g9ki0TVcIxI/s1600/fitzLectern.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZGmDVeCwwTyNCFjh88JqFF-aFJi3JAp3mQLCyXcJrjXSccW9h0ib-oW9SXADldWQGlX3w3ZC7c9y8fmM6KVO3iysZA-aALZNPytC87C2_LaXaDoL6rgm0XUaxS9EknS_g9ki0TVcIxI/s400/fitzLectern.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724377441763557810" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">My invitation to participate (above) in the official U.S. Army celebration of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine’s</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 60th Anniversary on June 27, 2011, at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, included the request that I address the early trials and tribulations of that famous publication, “back in the day.” That was a tough task, considering the parameters of time and propriety.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Viewed through the prism of fifty intervening years, the precarious period in which </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> tottered close to being strangled in its crib and then struggled through an almost probationary continuance is readily understandable. In the fifth and early-sixth decade of the last century, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> itself was marching through unmapped conceptual terrain while tasked with serving an array of virtually autonomous authorities scattered across the logistics landscape of that time.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">My greatest pleasure at the event derived from sharing the platform with Joe Kubert and two sterling representatives of the U.S. Army Logistics Command (AMC), the overarching control element whose creation addressed the systemic springs from which many of the magazine’s early problems flowed. Both Lieutenant General Dennis L. Via, Deputy Commanding General of AMC, and Colonel Robert P. (Pat) Sullivan, who as the Commanding Officer of AMC’s Logistics Support Agency (LOGSA) is the immediate military commander of the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> program, voiced in ringing terms their enthusiasm for, and support of, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It truly was a great day.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;color:#FFFFFF;"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It was a thrill for me to be present at the warm reception given to Fitz, at the 60th Anniversary of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, having been involved in the publishing business for most of my life. I really appreciated the wide swath and accomplishments of this man, who made it over some very, very rough roads and accomplished so much.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ Video: Colonel ‘Pat’ Sullivan, Head of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">’s Home Command<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ Video: Lieutenant General Via Salutes </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Program<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ Best of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> by Perspective Instructional Communications<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ Joe Dope Meets Beetle Bailey in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ Wrap-Up: A Wonderful Year of Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The close-up below shows Fitz at the lectern during the big 60th Birthday Party for </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">. To view his entire presentation at that significant event, just click </span></span><a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/PAUL_FITZGERALD.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">HERE</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqEgytba0gEaIyAnTP_OVzKCelXHPoJNMPe2YxJbbwiPW85OtEVd2aOJ15AZdS2wgmdnePZSX7m3sUvw85FmfZsNVsPbQM3W35VmgXgRW0NVVunwK9MN27Yhkm9pEO5uh7BkjACXndrQ/s1600/FitzMic.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqEgytba0gEaIyAnTP_OVzKCelXHPoJNMPe2YxJbbwiPW85OtEVd2aOJ15AZdS2wgmdnePZSX7m3sUvw85FmfZsNVsPbQM3W35VmgXgRW0NVVunwK9MN27Yhkm9pEO5uh7BkjACXndrQ/s400/FitzMic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724377814901445634" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-60062899340996200752012-03-16T14:56:00.014-07:002012-03-25T14:54:32.536-07:0033 - Video: Sequential Art Icon Joe Kubert Speaking At PS Magazine 60th Birthday Celebration<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RsCDoykfbd14SvfG6iP172Bv-AcE5mKkJVEkvuV5O8AguNrzmX0cM4qC_cbhWCW4JZauSbLWaurSxsqzaUKBtICZfj0PV5-s0tXx5zRAShatnsGPh8fcNbPBnzprGMHDT1PZWi3C-4A/s400/JoeLectern.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720618795125494162" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Joe Kubert, shown above, the sequential art icon who has been the creative artist and pre-press services contractor for </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> since </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 579 in February of 2001, was one of four featured speakers at the impressive official Celebration of the magazine’s 60th Anniversary on June 27, 2011, at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Joe's moving remarks lifted up and lauded the creative ingenuity of the publication's initial artist, Will Eisner, and praised the U.S. Army's command vision and the magazine staff's dedicated professionalism in nurturing the program through six decades of tumultuous technological advancement in the arena of graphic communication. You will find a link, below, to a video that preserved Joe's complete remarks on that great day.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The only people who could really appreciate the feelings and emotions that grabbed me on June 27, 2011, are those (who like myself) were drafted into the Army.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I was inducted in 1950, during the Korean War. I acquired the vaunted rank of P.F.C. when my two-year hitch was up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Then to be treated as an honored guest by high-ranking officers and officials at Redstone Arsenal just blew me away. If the guys who took Basic with me at Ft. Dix could see me now!</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k. </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Fitz Describes Near Crib-Death of Early </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, ‘Back in the Day’<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Colonel ‘Pat’ Sullivan, Head of </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">’s Home Command<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Lieutenant General Via Salutes </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Program<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> by Perspective Instructional Communications<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Joe Dope Meets Beetle Bailey in </span></span></b><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Wrap-Up: A Wonderful Year of Celebration</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The close-up below shows Joe at the lectern during the big 60th Birthday Party for PS Magazine. To view a video of his entire presentation at that significant event, just click <a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/JOE_KUBERT.html">HERE.</a></span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/JOE_KUBERT.html"><br /></a></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpthIL41_FjHvMPQmPUyWGwXKw8iA7Y4r1abtK_8avebjwKmXlcCixJsmzsmcVeyHD28yP3CIWCcWsmmfgyGNbF99KSs1zOsjTP8-YBEKQxkS7aFIHn431iufuuHSAU_nKM72VYT4MSvY/s400/JoeMike.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720619154606156962" /><a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/JOE_KUBERT.html"><br /></a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-7154256102311116412012-02-01T06:37:00.000-08:002012-02-02T11:18:54.566-08:0032 - Eisner / Kubert: Variations on a Visual Theme<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVkU-zEpZn-kesJyz7L_N4FDDcsP_PgU8W1O9L1zy4RByzf_b-tpu7ocwDpQO5zx9EPBHe0xqYR2hFtad_05nP8XZ-jmmk3payw4MGSNiywtb10VX4g0iPkTLoueFAcYvHQ75FJvKeGmI/s400/PS709.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704177470419851026" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px; " /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Front Cover on the recent December issue of </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> (</span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 709, December 2011, shown above) represented a daring change-up pitched by the publication’s staff and Joe Kubert, the current creative artist and production services contractor! For the first time in its 60-plus years as an international pace-setter in the use of sequential art for communicating technical and motivational information, the U.S. Army’s </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Preventive Maintenance Monthly </span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">has chosen to underscore the constancy of the medium’s effectiveness by utilizing Kubert’s adroit </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">reprise</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> of a seasonal scene set 56 years earlier by Will Eisner for the Front Cover of </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 39 in December of 1955 (shown below)</span></b></span></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s400/PS39.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704177769928922690" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Joe Dope’s 1955 appearance (in this instance) as a paragon of sartorial propriety drips with Eisnerian irony, foreshadowing Joe’s quiet departure a few months later from the ranks of the U.S. Army and the pages of </span></span></a></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></a></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> during 1956 “in the best interests of the military service,” and “in furtherance of good order and discipline.”</span></span></a></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Both covers are presented (below) for your side-by-side analysis. The varying approaches to the detailing in the wreaths and styling of the street-light fixtures have evoked comments by some observers.</span></a></span></b></span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8-LHKFsdfCJqKz9kTwKH_ewRfopxhzGPfvN8GMl9elqN4aZPxiHy6ymZrr7clwXPoVsPBQ8rXT5jjEoJy9WGt2cYm0cmnPaKx5hwiElPmZ5-2PJh0h_8HMyl7Q8s_g_6oRwRr_SYBgw/s1600/PS39.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhYo37MbyjRsgtU00B9yaT2yJR82c1p9HjVqZKiILpvVVwqrELe4SzEhbRMPxxEwgvcIcx-w4cda_K5xCdhNJTR6VFdeS0Ga59kvbrG4ubaOYIRhjy1F9LW1qxye08bLmHB9KFO8JNp4/s1600/PS39-709.FCs.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhYo37MbyjRsgtU00B9yaT2yJR82c1p9HjVqZKiILpvVVwqrELe4SzEhbRMPxxEwgvcIcx-w4cda_K5xCdhNJTR6VFdeS0Ga59kvbrG4ubaOYIRhjy1F9LW1qxye08bLmHB9KFO8JNp4/s400/PS39-709.FCs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704177150596823170" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It’s a safe bet that my awareness of the tensions of the times in 1955 has an overarching influence on my comparative reaction to the Eisner version. His four characters seem to me to be static, staid, and constrained. A bit more movement is sensed with Joe’s group, especially with the hoe-down fiddle stance that Kubert gave to Half-Mast, as compared to the concert hall pose that Will provided for him.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:20.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Taking on Will's 1955 cover was a challenge I had no choice but to accept. The <i>PS</i> editorial staff at Redstone Arsenal gave an order, and that was that.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I set out not to copy Will's drawing style, but to get the sense of warmth (despite the wintry snow) and animation that he achieved. The humanness of the characters. The life-like qualities that master cartoonist could convey.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I borrowed the layout and the composition and went to work. The result only made me appreciate all the more the abilities of the guy who did it all, over fifty years ago.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Joe Kubert at </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 60th Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Colonel ‘Pat’ Sullivan, Head of </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">’s Home Command<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Lieutenant General Via Salutes </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Fitz Tells About Early </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, ‘Back in the Day’<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> by Perspective Instructional Communications<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Joe Dope Meets Beetle Bailey in </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Wrap-Up: A Wonderful Year of Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">We initiated this blog, </span></b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Best of PS Magazine 1951-2011</span></b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, in February of 2011, promising you a “year-long salute” to PS during its Sixtieth Anniversary Year. We hope to fulfill that pledge by completing presentation of the projected postings listed above, prior to the end of March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-28633417734213133982011-12-08T17:33:00.000-08:002011-12-09T07:51:29.158-08:0031 – Army’s 60th Anniversary Video Salute to PS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgx6CK5WPXzBDfLZV5tjkhvlVqs0qABJSLrLqrT6R6TAVM4K94E1RB8aZeN_vbaWoKUa39Ui0QMLKaahgH9P9fKAsQbnk3xCH9rl-vJNE-cEXwWR9ui9dk136ix1v3yjXbHe21pyDKp6s/s1600/60thCoinALge.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgx6CK5WPXzBDfLZV5tjkhvlVqs0qABJSLrLqrT6R6TAVM4K94E1RB8aZeN_vbaWoKUa39Ui0QMLKaahgH9P9fKAsQbnk3xCH9rl-vJNE-cEXwWR9ui9dk136ix1v3yjXbHe21pyDKp6s/s400/60thCoinALge.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683936513220753202" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The impressive official PS Magazine 60th Anniversary Celebration on June 27, 2011, at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, included a comprehensive video salute and overview of the publication’s six decades of service to America’s Warriors.</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><b></b></span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The graphics presented (above and below) display both sides of the commemorative coin that was struck for that occasion.</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">With this 31st BlogPost in our year-long recognition of this significant PS milestone, we are going to present that video, to be followed by four others showing key elements of that event. Since the length of several of them is such that they are not readily adaptable to the requirements of our blog server, we have created a “video repository” for your viewing convenience and subsequent ready availability.</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It was my good fortune and great privilege to attend the celebration of the 60 years in which </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine </span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">has been published. The value of that little publication is reflected by the dedication of every person currently involved, as well as those in the past. I'm proud to be one of the pack.</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">To view the U.S. Army video salute to PS Magazine on its 60th anniversary, click </span><a href="http://www.thebestofpsmagazine1951-2011.com/SALUTE.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;">HERE</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></span></b></span></b></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7xTk6kmnXTQP-dkFR9HJodEEVOsl4lHh8-mDEHQw8aPnGEbtoamQIQpu0SB7OQE7SsCymcrZ2afUhVdduIaF_J9F3Q6OYXmgYmAn9FRLX_KVXV9Hto3HiXWi4A6JLg9aiGKVkSx35ls/s1600/60thCoinBLge.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7xTk6kmnXTQP-dkFR9HJodEEVOsl4lHh8-mDEHQw8aPnGEbtoamQIQpu0SB7OQE7SsCymcrZ2afUhVdduIaF_J9F3Q6OYXmgYmAn9FRLX_KVXV9Hto3HiXWi4A6JLg9aiGKVkSx35ls/s400/60thCoinBLge.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683936165562342898" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style=" ;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b></b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> by Perspective Instructional Communications<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Joe Kubert at </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 60th Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Colonel ‘Pat’ Sullivan, Head of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">’s Home Command<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Lieutenant General Via Salutes </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Program<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Video: Fitz Tells About Early </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, ‘Back in the Day’<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Joe Dope Meets Beetle Bailey in </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Wrap-Up: A Wonderful Year of Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span></b></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-26713646057795598862011-11-24T17:07:00.000-08:002011-11-24T17:32:09.099-08:0030 - Backes Group’s Runner-Up PS Continuity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXI-D92poJYX4JsADB5whzCC0frgWnkloTcB9lWakBBHwqz4xWxn2l-7Pfy3w94mUlQ8nzPSSeTlcnuOu769FMfW3_FY8B6RyYqb6qn9u68Gmz0FE27Lx_4ViLVyo5aAEonAuZLe0Znc/s1600/PS527.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXI-D92poJYX4JsADB5whzCC0frgWnkloTcB9lWakBBHwqz4xWxn2l-7Pfy3w94mUlQ8nzPSSeTlcnuOu769FMfW3_FY8B6RyYqb6qn9u68Gmz0FE27Lx_4ViLVyo5aAEonAuZLe0Znc/s400/PS527.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678735927776477842" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">You’ll find background information regarding Backes Graphic Productions and their artists in our BlogPost 11, back in April, with their four best Front Covers as selected by the New Millennium staff of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Their “best” Continuity was displayed in our BlogPost 29, immediately preceding this posting.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The staff at </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> picked the cowboy-western themed continuity from </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 527 (October 1996) as their runner-up. The related Front Cover is presented above, and the Continuity pages, in sequence, are displayed below.</span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59dHBxdytLiXqF2Vjv1lquZjUMbzEcywMaH4YuNb4kDlt59oGyoxLgURZgZWzakRmwbrA75Yj9h9tMAdXGKUJ857vhVZIkadPjKCVxGPUfpHlQG3tOjjuOWw2Yp4sg7Ks335b5NzIs1M/s1600/PS527.27.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59dHBxdytLiXqF2Vjv1lquZjUMbzEcywMaH4YuNb4kDlt59oGyoxLgURZgZWzakRmwbrA75Yj9h9tMAdXGKUJ857vhVZIkadPjKCVxGPUfpHlQG3tOjjuOWw2Yp4sg7Ks335b5NzIs1M/s400/PS527.27.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678735665809596482" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO0_y2i1X4Hba2UlHGpQTpqqUTn1riV-VsCn77fVbCtc8H_W9Ou0Z9WKpCHAkR4vKtr2Q7B590D3_aodVuEjytDfSYidlZFfeeO5xSR_ttUPPMzRy_ptO7bGcCTv9h5d1ypKdobnFn5Oo/s1600/PS527.28.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5fSC1HoH2_ZNpX4aj4Yqa3REPKTABemUMVBtPyk9s3WCcXq8qBvXCTL9iwAS2QScH7Q3CHFmdevlOmbkj9DW1HdXRfIQE8Naf1RPT_F7brf-_5XxfnzYO6E2Z8BbbMeaJWPpLjtgSD1g/s400/PS527.34.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678734164552680898" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The lead artist here probably was Scott Madsen. Scott was a graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Arts. When I interviewed him for </span></span><i><a href="http://www.willeisnerandpsmagazine.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;">Will Eisner and PS Magazine</span></span></a></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, Scott had moved away from his art career, but still had strong feelings about the effectiveness of PS and its importance to America’s warriors. “You’re part of something that’s a lot bigger than yourself,” Scott remarked. “PS provided opportunities to surprise yourself,” he said.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Madsen expressed a preference for drawing Half-Mast, from the PS cast of characters, saying that he found the grizzled, old sergeant “more flexible than Connie or Bonnie.”</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—p.e.f.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Video: U.S. Army’s Salute to </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Best by Perspective Instructional Communications<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Video: Joe Kubert at </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 60th Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Video: Colonel ‘Pat’ Sullivan, Head of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">’s Home Command<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Video: Lieutenant General Via Salutes </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Program<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Video: Fitz Tells About Early </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, ‘Back in the Day’<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Joe Dope Meets Beetle Bailey in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> (Permission in process.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> ¶ Wrap-Up: A Wonderful Year of Celebration</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-59882500542915484632011-10-19T12:35:00.000-07:002011-10-24T13:48:36.854-07:0029 - Backes Group’s Best PS Continuity<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNF_OA9kDf3T91jmhS2wQ3pGNY0dNiIZuOSepcLXu_fpYEqnEE5TnuRMkeQXByerohW5KFAMycYJzYUYX8CioCi0qqafivRbt-BiOh3FHr0_o8-mq6Hk2V7hEPv5N7YqN1Q0PY5MWiMi8/s1600/PS525.30-31.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNF_OA9kDf3T91jmhS2wQ3pGNY0dNiIZuOSepcLXu_fpYEqnEE5TnuRMkeQXByerohW5KFAMycYJzYUYX8CioCi0qqafivRbt-BiOh3FHr0_o8-mq6Hk2V7hEPv5N7YqN1Q0PY5MWiMi8/s400/PS525.30-31.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665291144839297762" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">In our BlogPost 11, back in April, we introduced you to the work of Backes Graphic Productions, in Princeton, New Jersey, as the contractor for </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> creative art, design, and pre-press services, by presenting their four best Front Covers as selected by the New Millennium staff of </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Backes Group produced 151 issues of </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, from </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 428 (July 1988) through </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 578 (January 2001). Their contract-run, at this point in time, is second only to Will Eisner's 21 years and 227 issues. Joe Kubert, the current </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> artist, is closing the gap, though, being well into his eleventh year, which will be completed with </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 711 in February of 2012.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Jack and Diane Backes were the owners, with Diane also working on page layouts. Their production manager was Mark "Sparky" Dobrowolski and the lead artist for most of those years was Scott Madsen. Other artists were Augie Scotto (who had worked with Murphy Anderson), Vic Scarpelli, and Brian Orlowski. Staff members were Saronda Stevens, Karen Mamo, and Allison Backes.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The staff at </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> picked the continuity from </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 525 (August 1996), “Nothing More Important Than…,” as the best by Backes. The centerspread mini-poster is displayed above. The other six pages of the continuity are displayed in sequence, below.</span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbewfHupsuM1TZhfBpmNY4BTMKjbPPpb9Rn1k4UeNpxWJHpKV7TLM0unyiyhBanzD29IJleQofyaNmEchQVrz4z2N0pf-YomwfSa0xo0VXQiPARKxQRfuIfivgBozmo0RCOcOh5Jox1s/s1600/PS525.27.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbewfHupsuM1TZhfBpmNY4BTMKjbPPpb9Rn1k4UeNpxWJHpKV7TLM0unyiyhBanzD29IJleQofyaNmEchQVrz4z2N0pf-YomwfSa0xo0VXQiPARKxQRfuIfivgBozmo0RCOcOh5Jox1s/s400/PS525.27.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665290857770314594" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd197IioSHwLYF7IkTgiNeXBj9XJB79fxTwFxyCMwZjS5K8s9cOkhb9JPbo3wfCVq_rD-sUwdz18PVfStGb755kAS0S_wpkGEkx5DD0JOSVMQp-qNiYFUkBXJnMgzsHEahFzc3_Bbp5Wc/s1600/PS525.28.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQYvX_rvg3i3ynHPC0Cj4tdtrjt5saS9bpt4K8X4hbe7IVb2cqjDPqdDmu5UnZ9sEbVwW-6Slx8ecTCUFgd6kjUwOeZHvpP7waeIXmrOf65Xbnf8jLGlvzWbxll1KuzlywITfDxXwbCw/s400/PS309.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657889441348115730" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Zeke Zekely’s </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Sponsored Comics</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in Beverly Hills, California, held the </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS </span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">contract for only six issues, </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 309 (August 1978) through </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 314 (January 1979). Zeke had obtained the contract by under-bidding Murphy Anderson, and Murphy was brought back in after Zekely’s default, resuming with </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 315 in February 1979 and continuing through </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> 368 in July of 1983.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Under Zekely, the continuities were done by Dan Spiegle, who drew movie and television adaptations for Gold Key comics. “Think of titles such as </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Lassie</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">,</span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Fury</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, and </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Misadventures of</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Merlin Jones</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">,” <i>PS</i> Production Manager Stuart Henderson says.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The covers and two-color pages were done by Alfredo Alcala, who also drew a lot of the Conan comics for Marvel.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The New Millennium </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> staff’s pick as Zekely’s Best Front Cover was on </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS </span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">309 (August 1978) showing Thor—reclining against a tree and being questioned by Connie and a soldier, and their choice as his Best Continuity was in the same issue: </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Famous</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">FOD'ers</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> [Foreign Objects Damage] </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">of History</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The Front Cover is displayed above, the Centerspread Mini-Poster is shown below, and the Continuity follows, in order.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_kL1WLajHftCaw7arWqpOi90hooTwjyRqkA2ZIvFupvbGzDpvKzeLl12f_YTmpoYrgRmuzkJfDFUSIQHue7fI9UhunseX4h7QzfJwvDcOMbGCXB6NVHe0KTR8J0xhF_y_DTvYIsjVPQ/s1600/PS309.36.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_kL1WLajHftCaw7arWqpOi90hooTwjyRqkA2ZIvFupvbGzDpvKzeLl12f_YTmpoYrgRmuzkJfDFUSIQHue7fI9UhunseX4h7QzfJwvDcOMbGCXB6NVHe0KTR8J0xhF_y_DTvYIsjVPQ/s400/PS309.36.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657887760746438738" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Continuity by Backes Group<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Runner-Up </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Continuity by Backes Group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of Perspective Instructional Communications in </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-9670540507445579722011-09-14T12:58:00.000-07:002011-09-14T18:19:38.384-07:0027 – Early Covers Plopped Eisner and PS in Hot Water<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Despite the six-year sabbatical that had been in play since the end of World War II in 1945, when Will Eisner shuffled through his memories of Connie Rodd and Joe Dope in the spring of 1951 it seemed like business as usual at the same old stand—except that the name of the stand had been changed from</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Army Motors</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> to PS </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">. It turned out to be an illusion, though.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The peacetime interval preceding the Korean War had seen a mass exodus of victorious, battle-hardened warriors. In the world of military logistics, where </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">was based, many management-level functions had been filled, to an increasing degree, by civilians. It took some time for the light to dawn on Eisner and the initial </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> staff, but a heightened presence of socio-political sensitivities had replaced the successful raw instincts that had worked so well during the Big One.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEeEfNDaLGfPPwslt_4dABKDChHYdQi39y1BUzyBneDuLJDUBWJb7RQEWSaWVm32qNXaF7qFRCGuwbBJOuIU8_-N6nSb0aJyv_gkQjXGP0eOKs9MLecRVDygljdqd9j26jqSVpWFTkH7Q/s1600/PS2.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEeEfNDaLGfPPwslt_4dABKDChHYdQi39y1BUzyBneDuLJDUBWJb7RQEWSaWVm32qNXaF7qFRCGuwbBJOuIU8_-N6nSb0aJyv_gkQjXGP0eOKs9MLecRVDygljdqd9j26jqSVpWFTkH7Q/s400/PS2.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652313970612574002" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The criticism focused on Connie and Joe, plus Joe’s foil—Fosgnoff.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">There were four general hoo-ha categories: feminine attire/dimensions; unmilitary appearance; unmilitary actions; and, Poor Taste. Will batted 1.000 after </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 1 (June 1951) and continuing through </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 13 (July 1953) drawing fire from one or more directions with every one. He pleased everybody with an anthropomorphic M-41 Walker Bulldog tank on the Front Cover of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 14 (August 1953), but fell back into his outrage streak with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 15 (July 1953) and</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 16 (January 1954), followed by </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 20 (May 1954) and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 26 (November 1954) registering high on the thunder-and-lightning meter.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">We’re going to present sixteen Front Covers here, in numeric/chronological order, beginning above, with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 2 (July 1951) and picking up with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 3 (August 1951), below, leaving it to you to assign the fault category (or categories) involved. There was a lot of overlap, especially when Connie and Joe appeared on the same Front Cover.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCm_d9m5bJ4hNFwg0D5tgiWZ6DYULqSLjapeY7-M98j93MI5LrTvO-2S6CCMV9wQ7pcCbfBoEp6Wpt6S6LDh56bltedDGvMhOsYAe74GaGxfe5iukTn6Kp95UzkYEwLhL97hvUoObfSw/s1600/PS3.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCm_d9m5bJ4hNFwg0D5tgiWZ6DYULqSLjapeY7-M98j93MI5LrTvO-2S6CCMV9wQ7pcCbfBoEp6Wpt6S6LDh56bltedDGvMhOsYAe74GaGxfe5iukTn6Kp95UzkYEwLhL97hvUoObfSw/s400/PS3.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652313685609707282" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></i></b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja8KyXmvUSHFvVF32KT4x5AqvnMWJ4gHfgv88vCokMiycBDoUtXONrYsu1HZVpeTptudFeuy7_A2GqzLWHbk3HHuxzcDfk_rgrZ-qoo3KzWtfKUTt5UYayt9MIBpYu-GCtbSJCi_pKTRs/s1600/PS4.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja8KyXmvUSHFvVF32KT4x5AqvnMWJ4gHfgv88vCokMiycBDoUtXONrYsu1HZVpeTptudFeuy7_A2GqzLWHbk3HHuxzcDfk_rgrZ-qoo3KzWtfKUTt5UYayt9MIBpYu-GCtbSJCi_pKTRs/s400/PS4.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652313441650872546" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 4 (September 1951), above, with Connie washing garments in a stream was a favorite with the troops, but not with the Brass.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMwmUKEHDjBj1eMXpkIT8b0ZMiexfg0utfdpC7_6HhTTTti7Fio2aB_VKhco3SmpFXNMwwVYL5kpUiskniwu4fTqRG9NLMRsZhcyGCdn9DCmWTzaTFicvYRubkj49PO2nhPYqWryC7YIs/s1600/PS5.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMwmUKEHDjBj1eMXpkIT8b0ZMiexfg0utfdpC7_6HhTTTti7Fio2aB_VKhco3SmpFXNMwwVYL5kpUiskniwu4fTqRG9NLMRsZhcyGCdn9DCmWTzaTFicvYRubkj49PO2nhPYqWryC7YIs/s400/PS5.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652313150913873650" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></p><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 5 (October 1951), above, with dueling fantasies of Connie and Joe in a hurtling Jeep was something of a rework or an </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Army Motors</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> Front Cover with Joe alone in a similar situation.</span></b></span></p></b></b></span><b><p></p></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxjg8MsGI2HY8wq1b44MQWVUMSAE16qzL8yoNJrLqK1oUvk1EFyNr_tB6zqj4BLfHxXlImKW-zwLqPV0PxOknnHcr3IYHxgMSY8J5is6KgOl1bOAXI0LZPegiL8iUuAsA1et0hjI2mXpE/s1600/PS6.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxjg8MsGI2HY8wq1b44MQWVUMSAE16qzL8yoNJrLqK1oUvk1EFyNr_tB6zqj4BLfHxXlImKW-zwLqPV0PxOknnHcr3IYHxgMSY8J5is6KgOl1bOAXI0LZPegiL8iUuAsA1et0hjI2mXpE/s400/PS6.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652312749528618194" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 6 (November 1951), above, with Connie and Joe in a close-up, under a vehicle, speaks for itself.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqlYNbveigN-ll9c24NRbRwM4pj42XiZ4WXAPm0oZNme0TsU0gbIRLxomMLCzCthTZAhL0yL1MO427Tvxnu_LAVooiBmCwUqyiUFQC0mGsv0YQVf_X8f_WFhDScXC3Feh1mip9e85WFY/s1600/PS7.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqlYNbveigN-ll9c24NRbRwM4pj42XiZ4WXAPm0oZNme0TsU0gbIRLxomMLCzCthTZAhL0yL1MO427Tvxnu_LAVooiBmCwUqyiUFQC0mGsv0YQVf_X8f_WFhDScXC3Feh1mip9e85WFY/s400/PS7.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652312529236389634" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 7 (July 1952) finds Connie, Joe, and an outdoors bulletin board in the rain. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Eisenshpritz</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">, yet.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnkuqqImf5hiY3Jtnzcom8E5vJeBGAL6_V_suCRLJSEGGaRqFI1gdh0KIusHh-3xYyXbGM6any00WZ03S4ltHCGm61nIg1B2X8WEZQE_mlt6hptsQNAE7qQSy3lg3jpLri5o-C6HxpDac/s1600/PS8.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnkuqqImf5hiY3Jtnzcom8E5vJeBGAL6_V_suCRLJSEGGaRqFI1gdh0KIusHh-3xYyXbGM6any00WZ03S4ltHCGm61nIg1B2X8WEZQE_mlt6hptsQNAE7qQSy3lg3jpLri5o-C6HxpDac/s400/PS8.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652312123652746066" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 8 (September 1952) positions Connie on a mountaintop, with hovering helicopters.</span></b></span></p></b></span><b><p></p></b></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirVd9OajrcK_GN_O45pns3kt4zysIvFiG8HCz89j-xfmjv2shbdzYa5nwKUv4o2w1AeJZu9qvngRGnR5HLnHDlrFumkHVYmNRPPo5W4q5DxRP09LxVp3HkwP13FGglBFBRRHC6syjcDlA/s1600/PS9.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirVd9OajrcK_GN_O45pns3kt4zysIvFiG8HCz89j-xfmjv2shbdzYa5nwKUv4o2w1AeJZu9qvngRGnR5HLnHDlrFumkHVYmNRPPo5W4q5DxRP09LxVp3HkwP13FGglBFBRRHC6syjcDlA/s400/PS9.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652311851012952450" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 9 (November 1952) has Joe and a buddy out of uniform amidst what might be construed as evidence of excessive firing to hit a target. The elevation of the gun reflects the issue’s (it turned out) extremely controversial article about addressing “high angle cant.” The weapons-design boys howled that “there ain’t no such thing” and the red-legged cannon-cockers firing the guns responded: “The hell you say!”</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBUIHS96zbjORMsICkL2PS6vLRk_n8SVdk1l8-V5Au2kiWiGzDE7Pv0gmA_0slZrwM48z85oA5rMzImMUDhHps2XHg0ULmZLQzMvuQEgsDmqXwC5s_buqnn7Ag12eot-uSrfLZtu6CO0/s1600/PS10.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBUIHS96zbjORMsICkL2PS6vLRk_n8SVdk1l8-V5Au2kiWiGzDE7Pv0gmA_0slZrwM48z85oA5rMzImMUDhHps2XHg0ULmZLQzMvuQEgsDmqXwC5s_buqnn7Ag12eot-uSrfLZtu6CO0/s400/PS10.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652311432367759346" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 10 (January 1953) insinuates the “crime” of “cannibalizing parts).</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkQxCL3C1xzM67I_tIyYlx-uGk7tORnRexiTnNxcPiLWaYsVm67GyWOyo39RFyrLxGxjbnVDdqpBOFr8_VOpRLBq8i4r1isKTAL0siqfgjrdV5X08ctEUIaVCIqijXuAbxjjdDF8JpV0/s1600/PS11.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkQxCL3C1xzM67I_tIyYlx-uGk7tORnRexiTnNxcPiLWaYsVm67GyWOyo39RFyrLxGxjbnVDdqpBOFr8_VOpRLBq8i4r1isKTAL0siqfgjrdV5X08ctEUIaVCIqijXuAbxjjdDF8JpV0/s400/PS11.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652311055528779826" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 11 (March 1953) calibrates the vicissitudes of Korean winters as related to alloy simian statuary.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHh9EWo4U7kiFvvQtbRZjt0thZgjvkAcp-s1mbdgFPjWohN_BDeO6C_Y_vDNEF3TwnJApPvD1grutx6ER3JuB8GbO_pctmZUXCr6CVgQGar9dFu7h9sVozmVPdIw0n00IL51qJZkTvLAU/s1600/PS12.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHh9EWo4U7kiFvvQtbRZjt0thZgjvkAcp-s1mbdgFPjWohN_BDeO6C_Y_vDNEF3TwnJApPvD1grutx6ER3JuB8GbO_pctmZUXCr6CVgQGar9dFu7h9sVozmVPdIw0n00IL51qJZkTvLAU/s400/PS12.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652310733242437298" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 12 (May 1953) plays off the fact that there really was a segment of mountainous Korean terrain that the troops called “Jane Russell.” Donald K. Hubbard always said that this was his favorite </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> Front Cover. Hubbard came on board</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> as a writer in July of 1954, became managing editor in October of 1963, and succeeded James R. Kidd as Editor in January of 1983. He retired in November of 1991.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLFQmBkujwTNh5dXWE0hk0UFivmIzi2mhU4mVleAvuRmrYhieVM-hkShJBJdf-LUkwM1jJ3xtQB47ykfDIT_Wb3ELnVfFEtEI4qMJ_YytpKUQ2n-a3zWeZNO2UgJJcwokKklxM-xSuhQ/s1600/PS13.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLFQmBkujwTNh5dXWE0hk0UFivmIzi2mhU4mVleAvuRmrYhieVM-hkShJBJdf-LUkwM1jJ3xtQB47ykfDIT_Wb3ELnVfFEtEI4qMJ_YytpKUQ2n-a3zWeZNO2UgJJcwokKklxM-xSuhQ/s400/PS13.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652310435247059666" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 13 (July 1953) is something of a sophomoric reach combining a weak pun with a common vulgarity regarding extremely dire circumstances and a missing means of propulsion.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjBKRHp-Be-jeKrXbLpUcLByqepPM6gvHRkJMTpflp2k5u0XjjoxK4c9c4Ea6qJD_zalNJS_vtMonzX2emut0K5ZL1O9m6PAub44lFoWMtmQ5og7mV-fGw8-T_CZ_LkJLg96P8zYlDgQ/s1600/PS15.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjBKRHp-Be-jeKrXbLpUcLByqepPM6gvHRkJMTpflp2k5u0XjjoxK4c9c4Ea6qJD_zalNJS_vtMonzX2emut0K5ZL1O9m6PAub44lFoWMtmQ5og7mV-fGw8-T_CZ_LkJLg96P8zYlDgQ/s400/PS15.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652310160223003458" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 15 (October 1953) reflects a shorthand vulgarism for constructive criticism resulting from a meeting with a displeased supervisor.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2q9fvWHH5PpYQVfTmqYbRowjBTz36HYvMfS3RiU2eS9kPSvB1ru7Qvu0WnBTazvskviLBlzR-tDlLucQYhivxOj_WM5yuHU0fVs8gFtCw_7hDj1yIwlAbQA4ZuBs7zxudw__p_rjBVGo/s1600/PS16.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2q9fvWHH5PpYQVfTmqYbRowjBTz36HYvMfS3RiU2eS9kPSvB1ru7Qvu0WnBTazvskviLBlzR-tDlLucQYhivxOj_WM5yuHU0fVs8gFtCw_7hDj1yIwlAbQA4ZuBs7zxudw__p_rjBVGo/s400/PS16.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652309896927172290" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 16 (January 1954) was a little late, but it’s the thought that counts. Merry Christmas!</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPgUZ4aOMFafESj0C9XliI3883z5GEwv-K3GWdxpXnlPr-hdcPUvFHKX0kLtap53K_W2nB1Y09JqgyugyFPUTv5OpyoXws9H1F29-6Zh1jif3gxLTNBhB8k851AOWx2OpAvNeFYsmiYEY/s1600/PS20.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPgUZ4aOMFafESj0C9XliI3883z5GEwv-K3GWdxpXnlPr-hdcPUvFHKX0kLtap53K_W2nB1Y09JqgyugyFPUTv5OpyoXws9H1F29-6Zh1jif3gxLTNBhB8k851AOWx2OpAvNeFYsmiYEY/s400/PS20.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652309475091408850" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 20 (May 1954) really offended Joe Dope’s dedicated critics. Joe was the subject of a major rehabilitation campaign that lasted several decades and included a weapons mishap (due to poor preventive maintenance) that required extensive cosmetic facial surgery. His jacket was too heavy, though, and eventually he was eased back into civilian life.</span></b></span></p></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GQLPRM_eFBI8ZN0fOH0-AXD06bKSrOdcT3Y7EwSiHZ4SaBo8EeQjXDTiGC4Let91M8GaHZ481ZMRPsC0lSgfMWUmawjbZ7JgSrqWp3Nsbufy7ECKH3yKMPrhbO57RPz-ZghRyegE2Ec/s1600/PS26.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GQLPRM_eFBI8ZN0fOH0-AXD06bKSrOdcT3Y7EwSiHZ4SaBo8EeQjXDTiGC4Let91M8GaHZ481ZMRPsC0lSgfMWUmawjbZ7JgSrqWp3Nsbufy7ECKH3yKMPrhbO57RPz-ZghRyegE2Ec/s400/PS26.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652307931619689426" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b> </b></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 26 (November 1954) had one of the better first-glance, purely graphic Front Covers. 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And Will was the master of the genre.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Reviewing those old covers described as "questionable"; A) feminine attire, B) unmilitary appearance or action and C) poor taste is like saying guys in the Armed Forces were never interested in Betty Grable, Lana Turner, or (you name her). Three cheers for Will and four cheers for getting by the blue-nosed censors!</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—j.k.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Continuity by Backes Group<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Runner-Up </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Continuity by Backes Group.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><b></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><b></b></span></span></p><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of Perspective Instructional Communications in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span></p></b><p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </b></span><p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-38660108445084746552011-08-29T16:34:00.000-07:002012-09-20T08:41:37.862-07:0026 – Murphy Anderson’s Runner-Up "PS" Continuity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfTGPiJV52xBnH2n3tynRv-AZWsSeZdtbkb0XoX4oCqMAklPW0Wsn0jm9Sxu05N1-ydTjeamd16tdr0h6E1q9tdM77bWHMbZ81X8aoJOqFdr9FqrNFOyuW_jUT9Qt106S-OGbjSemQ53g/s1600/PS261.29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646426856770173170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfTGPiJV52xBnH2n3tynRv-AZWsSeZdtbkb0XoX4oCqMAklPW0Wsn0jm9Sxu05N1-ydTjeamd16tdr0h6E1q9tdM77bWHMbZ81X8aoJOqFdr9FqrNFOyuW_jUT9Qt106S-OGbjSemQ53g/s400/PS261.29.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 309px;" /></a>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That’s because he and I were born in the same year—1926. For Murphy, it was in July. My birthday is in November. That means Murphy turned 85 last month, and I have three months to go. My colleague in this blog effort, Joe Kubert, also was born in 1926—in September.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Murphy Anderson’s </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> creds included a long stint of yoeman’s efforts in Will Eisner’s shop and two years when the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> contract was in the hands of the post-Eisner group, before he won the contract in his own name in 1973, going on to produce</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> PS </span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">252 (November 1973) through </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> 308 (July 1978).<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Murphy had already established himself as a multi-talented artist in the stables of DC Comics (National Periodical Publications) in the 1960s and 1970s. Murphy was considered to be not only one of their best pencil artists but an amazingly talented inker, inking not only his own pencils, but embellishing the pencil work of others.</span></b></span></p></div><div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I held a high degree of respect and admiration for Zolnerowich, who was much-liked, friendly, cooperative and productive. His presence in the shops of Will Eisner, the post-Eisner group, and Murphy Anderson, was a highly valued asset. He was a meticulous, steady worker whose strongpoint was technical illustration—the true heart of the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS </span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mission—from the magazine’s very beginning and for more than 30 years. He was an even-tempered bear of a man whose presence was a pleasure. Dan began his career in the Eisner-Iger Studios in the late 1930s, shared a Fiction House background with Murphy who also started there, and racked up an array of credits with the early DC Comics where he returned after leaving Murphy.</span></b></span></div><div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anderson lost the contract in July of 1978 through a low-bid award to Zeke Zekely’s</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sponsored Comics</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Zekely’s group produced </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> 309 through </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> 314 before defaulting on the contract. Murphy and his group stepped back into the picture, going on to produce </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS </span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">315 (February 1979) through </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> 368 (July 1983).</span></b></span></div><div>
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<br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Questions regarding the use of</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> PS Magazine</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> characters in animation are not unusual, whenever knowledgeable sources interface with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> enthusiasts. The sad truth of the matter is that the questions far outnumber the known instances when the basic </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> mission was augmented by animated film.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The first occurred in 1962 when plans were percolating for a force-wide readiness endeavor that ended up being called Operation ARM—for Army Ready Materiel. The kickoff was concurrent with the publication of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 118 in September of 1962. (See </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS </span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">118.IFC-1, above, and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 118.2-3, below.)</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The product was a relatively short black-and-white tone-setter designed as an opening item for motivational sessions. Will Eisner produced it—under duress—kicking and screaming all the way. He said that he didn’t know anything about animation before he got involved with the project, and knew even less when he had finished it. Of course, this was ages before computerized animation, it was a labor-intensive undertaking, and his existing shop had no significant capability or inclination in that arena.</span></b></span></p></div><div>
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<br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">It wasn’t a bad little piece of work, but it certainly didn’t find its way to any film festivals. We picked out some opening Doom’s Day music that quickly led into a mushroom-cloud nuclear detonation and the mood was set. One problem that seemed to hang around until the last moment involved the repetitive-action loops—the tracks on tanks appeared to be running backwards, and the line of people (distant view) entering a building seemed to be coming out when it was supposed to be going in.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Will always claimed that he lost his shirt on the deal, and I’m inclined to believe him. In those days, training films were considered to fall within the responsibilities of the Signal Corps, which was not in love with animation as a communication concept, and was even less enamored of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. The funding for the Operation ARM animation product came from the Ordnance Corps and the contract negotiation and administration was through the New York Ordnance District with some heavy handholding from the U.S. Army Maintenance Board.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Various </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> staffers, over the years, have labored to preserve </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> heritage as best they could, but file-retention programs, storage limitations, and four PCS (Permanent Change-of-station) moves over the years have taken their toll. Except for the one that I actually saw in the can at the preview showing, I don’t think I ever saw another copy of it. Up to this point, it’s been the big one that got away.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I have entertained hopes that some day a true </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> fan with enough rank and Signal Corps roots will turn over the right rock.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">But, enough already about what we can’t show you. Let me tell you what we’re gonna do.</span></b></span></p></div><div>
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<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGl99sXNUb41Hxg5x8qt8czgK-PWqwNuUfvcWJn1L_UPZOVOoQLGBPXt51npeQsSpe5eBnpLUkJY6zaFItux4UtIuiUaNOp8FEISjXKUnbCXvy4DyFxPqoa0HVvhFxHHAitLPpAhNZVcs/s1600/Animation+ScreenShot.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGl99sXNUb41Hxg5x8qt8czgK-PWqwNuUfvcWJn1L_UPZOVOoQLGBPXt51npeQsSpe5eBnpLUkJY6zaFItux4UtIuiUaNOp8FEISjXKUnbCXvy4DyFxPqoa0HVvhFxHHAitLPpAhNZVcs/s400/Animation+ScreenShot.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639704882985423202" /></a><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">(Frame from </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">TV Promotion Spot</span></i></b></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">)</span></i></b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b>
<br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Back in the late 1960s, five years or so after Operation ARM, there was a period of experimentation with black-and-white television spots prepared for release through Armed Forces television facilities. They were 16-mm, silent, clack-and-white products shipped with an accompanying sound cassette. Sound synchronization concerns were minimal. All of them that I’ve run across in the past two or three decades had managed to lose the cassette somewhere along the way—something that I suspect occurred more often than not, rather early on.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The video offered below is a 60-second, black-and-white television spot plugging</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, from 1968. You may never see another one like it!</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—p.e.f.</span></b></span></p>
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<br /></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">t was a surprise for me to learn that Will did not want to get into animation with the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> characters. The reason for Will's reluctance could not have been lack of confidence or ability.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The essence of being a good cartoonist is to draw "still" pictures that give the impression of life and movement—to take a sequence, or a series of panels, and to select the actions that will allow (or inspire) the reader to fill in the missing pictures. A film or animated sequence contains each and every movement. A cartoon story or strip is much more limited and depends on a single picture for movement and credibility created by the cartoonist.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Will's capability to give life to his characters is unquestioned. So his hesitancy to get into animation must have been a business decision, not an artistic one.</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
<br /></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Murphy Anderson’s Best </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Continuity<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Early Covers Put Eisner, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in Hot Water<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-1213501273476187512011-08-03T14:30:00.000-07:002011-08-03T17:38:01.159-07:0023 – "PS Magazine" Saluted "Gunsmoke"—When Both Were Young<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4Zb0fyT_aRZj1vrTk1GpjlwfoSeu7ovI9BnJQCmmh5HG21-zlc00DleASiPHDREGPYyf37wO2DLQvb0sIZXub1l9UfHKcDI6w7oNGE4FXNH3FSO3wPPihZRxOglqcedYB1Xj1SXrUbQ/s1600/PS81.32-33.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">When the world was made aware of the June 3 death of actor James Arness, at the age of 88, I had a flashback to a sun-filled, early autumn evening in 1960, sitting beside Will Eisner aboard one of the early commercial jets, on our way to San Francisco and, ultimately, Korea.</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpahXerQlLxMV7aFcn81UQ8qvCg_MREvdWuIbtHizpq09xUOrgJVUdbBxAwEPSPUu4bxry2E3LvpgSImsUBtnsEVmaIQNW3aivCRkbkIlwwSdB9PZ9Fr6aM9Mvjq8mnGng6rwsmLOL6c/s1600/PS81.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpahXerQlLxMV7aFcn81UQ8qvCg_MREvdWuIbtHizpq09xUOrgJVUdbBxAwEPSPUu4bxry2E3LvpgSImsUBtnsEVmaIQNW3aivCRkbkIlwwSdB9PZ9Fr6aM9Mvjq8mnGng6rwsmLOL6c/s400/PS81.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636747704553002578" /></a><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">We had looked down at Manhattan when the jet circled westward and talked about Will’s abiding affection for the Big Apple, with its (then) grime and hard shell. When that conversation lagged, I had asked him which </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS </span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">episodes, if any, he had really enjoyed producing. The first one that he mentioned was </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Gunsmoke</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">.</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShX5FZTQUTEROCiZFzliClk6GSAcFsmd5PANLFF7tKR-wQBKMLddOSv9nkjcod5GGI8XYNtQjXEPq-LkZuUeELpD9P6VItgxv9jTuyXEHkthVkLSJ5Ztg4NGm1iSuMUFt6-7s6TTmiGI/s1600/PS81.29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShX5FZTQUTEROCiZFzliClk6GSAcFsmd5PANLFF7tKR-wQBKMLddOSv9nkjcod5GGI8XYNtQjXEPq-LkZuUeELpD9P6VItgxv9jTuyXEHkthVkLSJ5Ztg4NGm1iSuMUFt6-7s6TTmiGI/s400/PS81.29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636747455912994882" /></a><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">At the time of that conversation,</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 93 had just come off the presses. The</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Gunsmoke</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> issue, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 81, had been a year before, in August of 1959. The television version of the adventures of U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon premiered in 1955, and the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> tip-of-the-hat appeared during the show’s fourth year of its eventual 20-year run.</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZRF0RyM0XIN7_RBTSFaD7bK1L_P8uIm1mkPa26IJAir0DgFZIp9JZ0ahT7rWwNdXb3WIaoCpx9e_krt44UWeSxFc_cYoEkoA8cVxdhOmA7HmyG-QLIyGFQmcD8olku8PLsMwiyk0rIk/s1600/PS81.30.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZRF0RyM0XIN7_RBTSFaD7bK1L_P8uIm1mkPa26IJAir0DgFZIp9JZ0ahT7rWwNdXb3WIaoCpx9e_krt44UWeSxFc_cYoEkoA8cVxdhOmA7HmyG-QLIyGFQmcD8olku8PLsMwiyk0rIk/s400/PS81.30.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636747174443461202" /></a><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Eisner said that he had been a nominal fan of William Conrad’s radio version of the Dodge City drama but ratcheted his enthusiasm up a Stetson-full of notches with the visual aspects and dialogue touches that developed with the ensemble troupe that coalesced around Arness as the central character. “Arness’s ‘Matt Dillon’ speaks in sequential-panel balloons,” Will said.</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIEpHMlotRWL_n2ebvQMdEsqSdRr-6ZCcaBr0gn4F6x_kywMeZ6VnbyuFhgC917sMt1Uq-SZATKoGz3dHKTN10EPL3fMk1XPY_fIPbwxL90IwICKtMQ9499xjR9qVj7t3DXT2OOy9HVdc/s1600/PS81.31.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIEpHMlotRWL_n2ebvQMdEsqSdRr-6ZCcaBr0gn4F6x_kywMeZ6VnbyuFhgC917sMt1Uq-SZATKoGz3dHKTN10EPL3fMk1XPY_fIPbwxL90IwICKtMQ9499xjR9qVj7t3DXT2OOy9HVdc/s400/PS81.31.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636746909158991778" /></a><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Another facet of Eisner’s enjoyment in doing the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> 81 Gunsmoke thing derived from the manner in which </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> Editor James R. Kidd restrained his staff from crowding the artist during its development. The project developed from a discussion during the late stages of a pencil-dummy review conference in the late spring of 1959 in the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> offices at Raritan Arsenal in Metuchen, New Jersey—about half-way between the program’s 1955 transfer out of Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland, and its next move to Fort Knox, Kentucky, in 1952.</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhgarV2-kvOYQpOurMFQL-4QjpbqW0Sg-8Yq4Ix9Bbf3qh6UUKcE_hjun8JpGQRc4wTHqBBwIl0QJxky_WM0AMG8TRVo8t05POxBgcn9rZjKeiAnl8gt9ftIIYFcmfBl2kvhw8cOC9KlQ/s1600/PS81.34.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhgarV2-kvOYQpOurMFQL-4QjpbqW0Sg-8Yq4Ix9Bbf3qh6UUKcE_hjun8JpGQRc4wTHqBBwIl0QJxky_WM0AMG8TRVo8t05POxBgcn9rZjKeiAnl8gt9ftIIYFcmfBl2kvhw8cOC9KlQ/s400/PS81.34.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636746321713053314" /></a><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The idea developed from a rather spontaneous exchange, but rapidly deteriorated when a couple of aggressive staffers began to pepper Eisner with specific visual notions and demands. Without restraint, they would have been more than willing to tell him how to allocate a page—plus, write the balloons before the art. Kidd dialed things down, told them to back off, and later channeled them into the task of preparing a script of technical necessities regarding the general field of hydraulics, and preventive maintenance of hydraulic equipment. Far-fetched? Not when a mal-functioning barber-chair played a key role at a critical moment in the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">-notion of a Gunsmoke dramatic episode!</span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_CfDLUxDovvLmTgYSSYvEuiEPUolhn9kEgwSRuhrWL7LltuxzQex14ClfbBjqw2Jb_hi-6yAMWzIXe6hqyIihapBq4XqCOj_CuNcqyNBHz7HwapkY8KeZmRfyL9Cijp6KngcM-cXWRM/s1600/PS81.35.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_CfDLUxDovvLmTgYSSYvEuiEPUolhn9kEgwSRuhrWL7LltuxzQex14ClfbBjqw2Jb_hi-6yAMWzIXe6hqyIihapBq4XqCOj_CuNcqyNBHz7HwapkY8KeZmRfyL9Cijp6KngcM-cXWRM/s400/PS81.35.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636746112018989922" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Eisner’s concept for the Front Cover beautifully invoked the classic Gunsmoke opening-shot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">At one point when Joe Kubert and I were at Redstone Arsenal recently for the official U. S. Army celebration of the PS Magazine Sixtieth Anniversary, we found ourselves in the neighborhood of a giant blow-up of that cover. I was engaged in a conversation with several people, but I could hear Joe, behind me, delivering to another small group a precise analysis of what Eisner had done—and why. I hope he will append those remarks to this blogpost.</span></span></b></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqkUG4IAd9rmA0jpOSdFGSAF96MiAtb0zgkheN26EHFtJxeld0oPN3lylAVtnFXc4o4y5Sl9ukNZS92bG3MZ7smaupwYFdOlYrkuCxik77Wo3BNDYTody3r4AyLBX4PN-HYCYk0fWZQU/s1600/PS81.36.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicqkUG4IAd9rmA0jpOSdFGSAF96MiAtb0zgkheN26EHFtJxeld0oPN3lylAVtnFXc4o4y5Sl9ukNZS92bG3MZ7smaupwYFdOlYrkuCxik77Wo3BNDYTody3r4AyLBX4PN-HYCYk0fWZQU/s400/PS81.36.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636745913160148866" /></a><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">For me, the Gunsmoke Front Cover and Continuity of PS 81 present a precisely perfect melding of an essential technical message with the communication potential of imaginative sequential art.</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">[The cover for] </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 81 is a perfect example of the cartoonist's use of composition and color to tell his story clearly with impact. A complex illustration that Will simplified by the use of orange and red, except for the foreground gunbelt and gunbutt and the background figure—where contrasting blues and whites were applied. In this way, Will accomplished two things: he created an additional depth to the illustration and caused the reader/viewer to focus on the cover's point. The gun in the holster (handle falling apart because of lack of maintenance) and the spider-web connected to the handle (again showing lack of current maintenance). It is abundantly clear that the man in the background is about to do away with the foreground character for those obvious reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The cover also contains a building, horses tied to a hitching post, a deep background with two men running, a couple of guys peeking out of the saloon door and two more guys hiding under the porch and one more behind the horses. With all this stuff to flesh out an interesting drawing, Will knew that the main point should be noticed first, and that's the way he designed the cover. Good compositions and proper graphic communication is no accident. Like Will always said, "The </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">best</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> cartoonist is the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">thinking</span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> cartoonist<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—j.k.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4Zb0fyT_aRZj1vrTk1GpjlwfoSeu7ovI9BnJQCmmh5HG21-zlc00DleASiPHDREGPYyf37wO2DLQvb0sIZXub1l9UfHKcDI6w7oNGE4FXNH3FSO3wPPihZRxOglqcedYB1Xj1SXrUbQ/s400/PS81.32-33.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636790378309877794" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></span></span></span></b></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b></span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Characters in Animation<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Early Covers Put Eisner, </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></span></i></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in Hot Water </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-78049277762777042242011-07-24T14:08:00.000-07:002011-07-24T18:16:12.472-07:0022 – Army’s Grand 60th Birthday Party for PS: Part C<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">There can be no doubt about it. A grand time was had by all!</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">If you don’t believe me, look at the pictures. Everybody has a smile. Smiles here! There! Everywhere! A truly Joyous Occasion.</span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjODDiY7LLu8e0E5YZ_FF8QIiVmEUzAfr1EHbd27qdX9GMxsQ_Fw_Q_uhVI0oXbIzRlLFzMiK48YG-EsYUYjwpyxMBxaSNelc4p_VE8l9LDK2X7Agu4LU5vNb2RstmNhiB31e5YBERJtgw/s1600/1272joeHM.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjODDiY7LLu8e0E5YZ_FF8QIiVmEUzAfr1EHbd27qdX9GMxsQ_Fw_Q_uhVI0oXbIzRlLFzMiK48YG-EsYUYjwpyxMBxaSNelc4p_VE8l9LDK2X7Agu4LU5vNb2RstmNhiB31e5YBERJtgw/s400/1272joeHM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633030844036544530" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Look at the image above, taken by Pete Carlsson and showing his boss, Joe Kubert, in the early stages of the U.S. Army’s grand 60th Anniversary celebration of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Talk about ill-concealed, mirthful enjoyment!</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Much of the Happy Face that I put forward throughout the pleasurable event derived from a renewed awareness that the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> operation is a respected and admired element of the Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) headed by Colonel Robert P. “Pat” Sullivan. And, Colonel Sullivan marches under the four-star aegis of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC), the overarching embodiment of a unifying logistics concept that was yet to exist in the balkanized technical terrain of the mid-Twentieth Century when </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> was picking its precarious way through its first two decades of existence.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Smiles, indeed!</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">And, in the two-step cake-cutting sequence below, also snapped by Pete, there’s no cloud on anybody’s horizon.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">From left: LOGSA Sergeant Major Timothy Shelton; Lieutenant General Dennis L. Via, Deputy Commanding General of AMC; Jonathan Pierce, Acting Editor of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">; and Colonel Sullivan, LOGSA Commander.</span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckqxKdHHd2jDJ-iuDEStP48U2QwBCCbd6VczbVfaNZ4RZi7-7dE2O5jhKLp1DE6MkuX76rIR6-3_HcBfPzGnT87p8lsxHOE3nYujQhLqm6oLNrgpA6vwf2zemIMlVO__2TrcDkx0R8BQ/s400/1304prepare+t0+cut.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633070334616546850" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pklgO8Z8XmRcILaQKp7R4E4H21DWQiFRggVispZf5uVxBOO_eO3_hsEm1cXTIxmi8g2f15ji4VOM3l_8ekmatwHuc69yGxlv5jMPVgfC71MWCLZ0DpUhf7z-iwHBjMnKFyKVmsDTaxc/s400/1305cut.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633070791357170706" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">At this point, we were firmly convinced that Colonel Sullivan and his Sergeant Major were truly enjoying the event.</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioT8nn9xgc-2ZlsSzmtSUAvkr6yrJVLlXLYQSipsfNf1rG3awtPIxSqMDAah6Imz1GBPCnfJmmg0kz3BD52idatirkCoQr2wPP7uXb3FXkvBqqfWS0AWjLeAMhy-TNMowmLVNk3AI7oSY/s1600/93signing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioT8nn9xgc-2ZlsSzmtSUAvkr6yrJVLlXLYQSipsfNf1rG3awtPIxSqMDAah6Imz1GBPCnfJmmg0kz3BD52idatirkCoQr2wPP7uXb3FXkvBqqfWS0AWjLeAMhy-TNMowmLVNk3AI7oSY/s400/93signing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633029950828215714" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b>T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">he Keynote Address was delivered by General Via.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">General Via’s awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal; the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Defense Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters; Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; Joint Service Achievement Medal; and the Army Achievement Medal. He is authorized to wear the Master Parachutist Badge and Army Staff Identification Badge.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">KEYNOTE ADDRESS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Lieutenant General Dennis L. Via </span></b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Deputy Commanding General United States Army Materiel Command</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">60th Anniversary Ceremony for </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">June 27, 2011, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Good morning! What a great day to be a Soldier. Colonel Sullivan - thank you for the kind invitation to participate in today's ceremony. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I want to also welcome all of our distinguished guests - and especially the Department of the Army civilians who make </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> possible. It's good to see all of you here. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Mr. Fitzgerald, I'm honored— Sir!— to meet you and join you in this great celebration. Our Army is forever indebted to you and Mr. Will Eisner for your role in establishing an incredibly valuable resource for our Soldiers and our Army. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">And to Mr. Kubert, you know many of us grew up reading Sergeant Rock, Hawkman, and other DC Comics. And today, we all have the opportunity to meet the artist who brought us so much enjoyment in our younger years, and who continues to entertain and educate us with your current work on </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Thank you for being here.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This month, June 2011, marks the 60-year anniversary of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, The Army's Preventive Maintenance Monthly. The idea for </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> was formed in April 1940 when Army Motors—a small monthly mimeographed publication on automotive maintenance was first introduced by the Quartermaster Corps. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A short time later, in May 1942, Private Will Eisner was inducted into the army. Private Eisner was already an established comic's artist with his </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Spirit </span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">strip appearing in newspapers. Mr. Eisner began drawing for the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, post newspaper, and it wasn't long before the Ordnance Corps, which now owned </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Army Motors</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, recognized the potential of having Mr. Eisner join its staff, and the rest is history.</span></b></span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBrHBgW6rcHEVHBEGkBwLp0GazLKQ3j5Xdl8_AveIJhWEgcd5Ufq86zANia6l2eD-e3lWJO_huFXUya1LWPXJnOi4J2_6LthR6gzlrufDXPXeNyVFz1SOxSLkrccDJ5oGkdQdSML6-qY/s1600/50Via.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEBrHBgW6rcHEVHBEGkBwLp0GazLKQ3j5Xdl8_AveIJhWEgcd5Ufq86zANia6l2eD-e3lWJO_huFXUya1LWPXJnOi4J2_6LthR6gzlrufDXPXeNyVFz1SOxSLkrccDJ5oGkdQdSML6-qY/s400/50Via.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633029667553918530" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Corporal Eisner (eventually Chief Warrant Officer Eisner) initiated a graphic makeover of</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Army Motors</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, polishing existing characters such as Connie Rodd and Master Sergeant Half-Mast McCanick and adding Privates Joe Dope and Fogsnoff. Circulation of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Army Motors</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> shot up to 1.5 million copies monthly. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">With the start of the Korean War, the army soon realized it needed a publication similar to Army Motors to promote preventive maintenance. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Preventive Maintenance Monthly</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, would be the name of the new publication. The army awarded a contract to Mr. Eisner to design and draw what would come to be popularly known as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—one of the oldest and most successful publications using "sequential art" as an educational tool to present information in short, clearly-written, highly-focused text and illustrations, the magazine illustrated proper maintenance methods with a comic book-style art form that has proven to be very effective for six decades.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">As the Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army Material Command, I'm proud to say, the magazine's main character, MSG Half-Mast, is still in uniform even though his tour of duty began during WWII. He and his counter-part, Connie Rodd, still encourage Soldiers to practice preventive maintenance on their vehicles, weapons, and equipment. His famous question – “Would you stake your life . . . right now . . . on the condition of your equipment?” – is as relevant today as it has ever been.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">For 60 years, mechanics, supply clerks, and a host of other Soldiers who operate the Army's equipment have used </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> to stay up-to-date with changes to Army technical publications, repair parts, national stock numbers, and maintenance and supply policy. In every motor pool, and at every army post, camp, and station throughout the world, you're likely to see copies of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> in the office, posted on a wall, or being used at the workbench. The characters and themes in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> have changed in appearance over the years to reflect war scenarios and changes within the Army and society at large. However, while our equipment has evolved tremendously over the past 60 years, the need to properly maintain that equipment has not. Corrosion, metal fatigue, sand and mud, and simple wear and tear continue to take a toll on Army equipment. Finding and fixing these problems when they are still faults remains the most economical way to keep equipment combat ready for our Soldiers. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine's</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> dedicated promotion of preventive maintenance will continue to play a significant role in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Today, the magazine's writers, including the PS Magazine Office at the Tank and Automotive Command (TACOM) in Warren, Michigan, visit units regularly at installations across the world to keep in touch with Soldier concerns, pick up article ideas, and discover solutions to maintenance and supply issues. We are now a decade into the Twenty-First Century, and Half-Mast now has a Facebook page as well. As always, he keeps Soldiers up-to-date on late-breaking hot topics, articles that will be appearing in the next issue, and when the newest issue has been posted on the magazine's home page for viewing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">As we begin the next decade, we look forward to what </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> may become as you apply technological advances to better illustrate technical art and to make the magazine as fully available electronically as it is in print. We can be assured that as history and the Army's demands continually change, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> will be at the forefront of the Soldier's need for supply and preventive maintenance issues. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The writers and the artists of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> are a team that has put together a 60-year winning streak. Not many teams can boast of that kind of record... Not even the great football teams here in Alabama.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Again, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> – Congratulations on your 60th Anniversary . . . and best wishes for much continued success.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Army Strong!</span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6Fd2zxx3BeaNLaJSEDnOFuZE1vs27-DnIu7p4BDhkHGfDSo0OF0NuCmJAJ5i3qpT3vpOhRobTILjFILtTMaPS3jp9jelLC0xMfgXYqSDvcShQKSekaCiNSAusAm7cE1VIg85LJGXzoI/s1600/45Sullivan.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6Fd2zxx3BeaNLaJSEDnOFuZE1vs27-DnIu7p4BDhkHGfDSo0OF0NuCmJAJ5i3qpT3vpOhRobTILjFILtTMaPS3jp9jelLC0xMfgXYqSDvcShQKSekaCiNSAusAm7cE1VIg85LJGXzoI/s400/45Sullivan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633029440719819618" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Welcoming Remarks were presented by Colonel Sullivan, above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Colonel Sullivan’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal (one Oak Leaf Cluster); the Meritorious Service Medal (five Oak Leaf clusters); the Joint Service Commendation Medal; the Army Commendation Medal (three Oak Leaf Clusters); Army Achievement Medal (two Oak leaf Clusters; Master Parachutist Badge; Parachute Rigger Badge; and other service awards. He is authorized to wear the Australian, Canadian, and German Parachutist wings.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">WELCOMING REMARKS</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Colonel Robert P. “Pat” Sullivan</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Commander, Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> PS Magazine 60th Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">June 27, 2011, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Good morning: Lieutenant General Via; Mr. Rogers, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army; Mr. Taylor, President of the Huntsville-Madison AUSA Chapter; distinguished guests; LOGSA team; and fans of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine's</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> first issue was published in June 1951. In the first two years the magazine functioned with one editor and its editorial staff. And now, here we are 60 years later celebrating not only the publication of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> but, even more importantly, the incredible dedication and commitment of those pioneers and currently serving professionals who have created an enduring maintenance capability that has outlasted any other Army program of instruction or technical manual.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Today we will hear remarks from two icons in the comics industry: Paul E. Fitzgerald, the first managing editor of the magazine: and Mr. Joe Kubert, current artist for </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">We are also honored to have joining us, Lieutenant General Dennis Via, who even though he is the longest serving active duty member here today, his thirty years only represent half a lifetime to Half-Mast, Connie Rodd and the crew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">We are honored by the presence of these leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">So today we'll hear a great deal about the legacy of the magazine and great accomplishments over the years. And that is essential to ensure we sustain the character and identity of this great training guide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">But before I relinquish the podium, I didn't want to lose sight of the team we have today who diligently work to carry on the cutting edge task of a previous generation. The 11-person staff of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS Magazine</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> represents over 160 years with the magazine and over 238 years of government service. I ask that this team led by Jon Pierce, acting editor, stand so that the audience may recognize you for your contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">So let's enjoy this opportunity to celebrate the past and the incredible promise for </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">magazine as it has served Soldiers past and present and will serve future generations of America's greatest treasure.</span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknOKbnOuLDwsL4dQV_l4h82TyRuDhBnRWrQ7CEqN5WUkMBvxJUWd9L9IDcz8Q6MhlusOvCwqcWR3o5hfeipGmLGnRIIvtffhiUcl0Ir8UhzpWJfn0ykEC9eSRv2e3cSTFGJCudPpM6v0/s1600/65signing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknOKbnOuLDwsL4dQV_l4h82TyRuDhBnRWrQ7CEqN5WUkMBvxJUWd9L9IDcz8Q6MhlusOvCwqcWR3o5hfeipGmLGnRIIvtffhiUcl0Ir8UhzpWJfn0ykEC9eSRv2e3cSTFGJCudPpM6v0/s400/65signing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633029215681786130" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">‘Twas a most lovely and lively affair . . . the proprieties were observed at all times . . . and inevitably with a smile and a twinkle! (The “signing” photos and those of General Via and Colonel Sullivan were taken by Clay Fitzgerald.)</span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Eisner Saluted </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Gunsmoke</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Characters in Animation</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-16223894797168545142011-07-13T17:59:00.000-07:002011-07-24T14:07:55.146-07:0021 - Army’s Grand 60th Birthday Party for PS: Part B<div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Come on in and meet the current </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Staff!</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">That’s what Joe and I did, down at Redstone Arsenal, following the impressive U.S. Army ceremony marking the 60th Anniversary of the trail-blazing sequential art success story that is internationally acclaimed for effectively communicating motivational and technical information.</span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzrxCBWP-o5bM_YW9KHx5sUIkkqyPjwqf-V_Mtnww2GsSUXekAg4oZJdScalEzVZh2f82xWP4xZBXbwn7mg1gMSsuMBkWAJuaAzfQJcaL9QDGcPXDfA-kaLvnssjGIvKf5BhCT7MGoGQ/s1600/HalfmastDisplay90.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzrxCBWP-o5bM_YW9KHx5sUIkkqyPjwqf-V_Mtnww2GsSUXekAg4oZJdScalEzVZh2f82xWP4xZBXbwn7mg1gMSsuMBkWAJuaAzfQJcaL9QDGcPXDfA-kaLvnssjGIvKf5BhCT7MGoGQ/s400/HalfmastDisplay90.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629008466904896242" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The image above, presenting Master Sergeant Half-Mast and his mantra, is one of many life-size displays that spiced the setting of the celebration.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">We were put to work the moment we stepped into the </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> digs in the Sparkman Center at Redstone, signing over-sized posters related to the day’s festivities. The image below (that’s Joe, on the right) shows us in the Editor’s Corner, tackling the task under the watchful eye of this year’s </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Summer Intern, Ms. Eryn Patton.</span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdz-5JRJ8tgEKnXXJMyhqAWpNi5v7ue5UcGhxpPRtR1eIgKMzRGfSFJGYm3RJrIxl6XP2wX7Ao-q-9kU3HGjXIOBJUpjvr9Se79EKCq-FEm8-BJMH5DrakZ9WIJ4zRO-xDfwbIjeFfIms/s1600/Signing37.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdz-5JRJ8tgEKnXXJMyhqAWpNi5v7ue5UcGhxpPRtR1eIgKMzRGfSFJGYm3RJrIxl6XP2wX7Ao-q-9kU3HGjXIOBJUpjvr9Se79EKCq-FEm8-BJMH5DrakZ9WIJ4zRO-xDfwbIjeFfIms/s400/Signing37.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629008025493268578" /></a><br /></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Displays reflecting </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> covers, characters and milestones were encountered at every turn. The two images below present some of the coverage provided by the post newspaper, the Redstone Rocket, in connection with publication of my </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><a href="http://www.willeisnerandpsmagazine.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Will Eisner and PS Magazine</span></a></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50dgjVujH3QfgBWC2OHQJG1G8W3d8v9cf13nBQDvZGl_N2cBnxkcNFLsjoXcCgPQRn95xAWgaqT04xze7AraZ6QaFiStCRCbCVS0Sq654URzYaOUCFQl2FmvWP-a7PeSHz6xEXTw3Nak/s1600/Rrocket29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50dgjVujH3QfgBWC2OHQJG1G8W3d8v9cf13nBQDvZGl_N2cBnxkcNFLsjoXcCgPQRn95xAWgaqT04xze7AraZ6QaFiStCRCbCVS0Sq654URzYaOUCFQl2FmvWP-a7PeSHz6xEXTw3Nak/s400/Rrocket29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629007793249929474" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh44DGy4Zto-j6YP3k2rUsygapY2X3BqOFkD0TxTHqSUbZ9ZCfriL1xNagCZpwZMM3z9Ih0oRB5EZYU4gl5rOP6WtOnG-vuPUJfi2htmcrShLQUfBV3fZFYY0wDixv818Fj6SF-0GJKgc/s1600/RRocket30.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh44DGy4Zto-j6YP3k2rUsygapY2X3BqOFkD0TxTHqSUbZ9ZCfriL1xNagCZpwZMM3z9Ih0oRB5EZYU4gl5rOP6WtOnG-vuPUJfi2htmcrShLQUfBV3fZFYY0wDixv818Fj6SF-0GJKgc/s400/RRocket30.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629007488323455634" /></a><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The treat of the trip came when Acting Editor (and Managing Editor) Jon Pierce invited Joe, Joe’s right-hand man Pete Carlsson, my son Clay, and me to join a staff meeting that involved a token brush-by acknowledgment of “back in the day” and then a big batch of looking down the road ahead.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Interactions involving totally credentialed professionals, displaying fully formed and widely disparate personalities, demonstrated both tenacity and reciprocal respect. I sat there with little doubt that a session involving today’s staffers in a meeting to resolve pencil-dummy differences would carry me back over six decades to recall some of the unrestrained enthusiasms of their predecessors.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The most enlightening of the exchanges were those involving Joe and the staffers, relating to the essentiality of accuracy and scale in visual reference materials provided to Joe’s shop. It had an old, familiar ring to it.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Not so familiar, though, was the demonstrated commitment to online availability and essence-of-the-moment use of electronic social media.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Clay took nearly 100 photos of the day’s events, including multiple views of the staff meeting. We’ve selected the four images displayed below to give you a visual introduction to every member of today’s PS staff, with a numeric-keyed link to names and assignments.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The warmth with which Pete and I were greeted was most gratifying. And getting together with Fitz and his son, Clay, was a great deal more than pleasurable.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Meeting and speaking directly to the </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Staff put the ribbon on the whole package. The session confirmed our dedication to produce our best efforts, knowing the benefits derived. Pete and I returned to New Jersey firm in our belief that our guys in the Army will continue to benefit from the info contained in every monthly issue of </span></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k.</span></span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPuqw5h8VvrFG2S2Is8eqWg1PuVpsdRPiTxJrSwOVlyI-RPp4HofkLK1hPbQAnUp7GGvxW6jx5q0DN4FDvTdkyRQsmvBAeKKUR2MmyDAclzrXDLkCg5-VsZ573ks5J5_VOOY4Tb7TX9Ig/s1600/StaffMtgONE.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPuqw5h8VvrFG2S2Is8eqWg1PuVpsdRPiTxJrSwOVlyI-RPp4HofkLK1hPbQAnUp7GGvxW6jx5q0DN4FDvTdkyRQsmvBAeKKUR2MmyDAclzrXDLkCg5-VsZ573ks5J5_VOOY4Tb7TX9Ig/s400/StaffMtgONE.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629007019172731490" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">PS</span></span></b></i></span><span style=" ;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"> Staff Meeting </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">June 27, 2001</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Numeric Key for Identifications</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 1 Adams, Glen—Senior Writer for Small Arms, Missiles and CBRN.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 2 Andree, Dan—Senior Media Specialist.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 3 Brent, Ms. Juanetta—Senior Writer for Wheeled Vehicles.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 4 Carlsson, Pete—Joe Kubert’s Executive Officer</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 5 Chase, Frank—Senior Writer for Aviation articles.</b></span></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwebly2PUs1DyXiZpQbSGTb9w1L69_9WusQP2vercmaQr0UzmqYSwMv0zQhpkmrn9m5asYuJz-b0nKMp5lfod6aYUcbpMj0WAKAGkhmfnoKR0cF3SQ0ZZSRxlTXgY5POUevIG7_xppbI/s1600/StaffMtgTWO.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwebly2PUs1DyXiZpQbSGTb9w1L69_9WusQP2vercmaQr0UzmqYSwMv0zQhpkmrn9m5asYuJz-b0nKMp5lfod6aYUcbpMj0WAKAGkhmfnoKR0cF3SQ0ZZSRxlTXgY5POUevIG7_xppbI/s400/StaffMtgTWO.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629006728709664242" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 6 Cotton, Bruce—Senior Writer for Combat Vehicles.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 7 Fitzgerald, Paul E.—First Managing Editor of </b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>PS</b></span></i></span><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> (1953-1963).</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 8 Franck, Michael—Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM) liaison and Senior Writer for Combat Engineering Equipment and MRAP/Route Clearance Vehicles.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> 9 Henderson, Ms. Mary Lou—Wife of Production Manager Stuart Henderson.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>10 Henderson, Stuart—Production Manager.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>11 Kubert, Joe—Current contractor for </b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>PS</b></span></i></span><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b> creative art, design, and pre-press production services.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>12 McAllister, Ms. Patricia—Senior Writer for Logistics Management</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>13 Nickerson, Lynn C. ("L.C.") Nickerson—Senior Researcher and Reader Service Facilitator.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>14 Pierce, Jonathan W.—Managing Editor and Acting Editor.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>15 Stringfellow, Michael—Senior Writer for Commo and Soldier Support.</b></span></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Eisner Saluted </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Gunsmoke</span></b></span></i></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></i></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></i></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></b></span></i></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Characters in Animation</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> </p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-82199071529148682632011-07-06T07:22:00.000-07:002011-07-08T17:35:21.473-07:0020 - U.S. Army's Grand 60th Birthday Party for PS: Part A<div><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> </span></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Please forgive us, folks! We missed getting our blogpost up last week because both Joe and I ran away to Alabama. On Monday, June 27, we met up at Redstone Arsenal where we had been invited to participate in the splendid celebration the U.S. Army had laid on to recognize </span></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">the Sixtieth Anniversary of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">. It was so impressive that we plan to present a sub-set of at least three postings regarding the event, to make sure that all the many facets involved are covered.</span></b></span></div><div><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"></span></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">In short, it was a magic moment in time where there was a constant mingling of praise and appreciation of the successes of the past with vigorous visions of creative future avenues for sharpening the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">-edge in the communications revolution that is upon us.</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojlZ9OMTDeEQG4cgNtRdWd-1b9we3t71yk5exRqOcSkw8V5wVc2AdT9yAe2TU8mSsnT5eyj7CEdawmW6uhzs0T5NDY47vqESMUOgdKQq_eyhWpk53_mIEKtmqd_qHlYUvBB3a_WhZgZw/s1600/BirthdayProgFC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojlZ9OMTDeEQG4cgNtRdWd-1b9we3t71yk5exRqOcSkw8V5wVc2AdT9yAe2TU8mSsnT5eyj7CEdawmW6uhzs0T5NDY47vqESMUOgdKQq_eyhWpk53_mIEKtmqd_qHlYUvBB3a_WhZgZw/s400/BirthdayProgFC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626416946869984866" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The image above shows the Front Cover of the impressive four-color program for the event, held in the Bob Jones Auditorium of the Sparkman Center—home of the Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA), a key element of the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC). LOGSA is </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">’s parent group. AMC is the embodiment of the Army’s over-arching logistics overhaul initiated in the 1960s.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The image below shows, left to right: Joe Kubert; Lieutenant General Dennis L. Via, Deputy Commanding General of AMC; Colonel Robert P. Sullivan. LOGSA Commander; and Paul E. Fitzgerald. We were chatting shortly before the opening of the event.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Both Colonel Sullivan, as the welcoming host, and Lieutenant General Via, the keynote speaker, heaped fulsome praise and encouragement on </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">. We plan to post their complete remarks as soon as transcripts have been processed.</span></b></span></span></span></b></span></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEM8PBcB0hSO7m7Vl_2goA7W32g9V-lzAuSQPcxlyLht9nWft7RnedfgnVOdnX7mLu5z9tfI7pl-m_XFb0Xba2ZXf032OX3shMMHM-kUVrMW5fir9_95266kcAOomXuQh8BsWT6aBBxg/s1600/FourTalking.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigEM8PBcB0hSO7m7Vl_2goA7W32g9V-lzAuSQPcxlyLht9nWft7RnedfgnVOdnX7mLu5z9tfI7pl-m_XFb0Xba2ZXf032OX3shMMHM-kUVrMW5fir9_95266kcAOomXuQh8BsWT6aBBxg/s400/FourTalking.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626416641160440946" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_Jf8W0RU5rrHB4ynd-4VjlDenZtEzJHOSO2O_lsSn6jgmHPh4UHHO2gSMp6JTYZfEc32kC7mKHVts2dVHn38gUda79NAtAEBe0IGhUYutAcZDHRZFmeQOSsOWbOjYrHa6WN-zdqAwEw/s1600/PS+Cake.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_Jf8W0RU5rrHB4ynd-4VjlDenZtEzJHOSO2O_lsSn6jgmHPh4UHHO2gSMp6JTYZfEc32kC7mKHVts2dVHn38gUda79NAtAEBe0IGhUYutAcZDHRZFmeQOSsOWbOjYrHa6WN-zdqAwEw/s400/PS+Cake.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626416391738398674" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The image above shows the birthday cake prepared for the occasion. In a subsequent posting, we’ll show you a picture of the cake-cutting event, a facet of the celebration that out-did any wedding-cake efforts that I’ve ever observed.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The “challenge coin” (or medallion) created for the occasion is pictured below.</span></b></span></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUskvJL12TzWg5Cn9BQCI-SaDbx1uuoSAYuNJw-ReGnmuhE8M_hJV-BONImpJxgvsG63CLv7-qdGaLFrxLjy8Gpsr1MrohwGHMXr3jWonbwEwfw3EU6xmE1BpGvqWZq_woZ27GB54_M0/s1600/CoinMedallion.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUskvJL12TzWg5Cn9BQCI-SaDbx1uuoSAYuNJw-ReGnmuhE8M_hJV-BONImpJxgvsG63CLv7-qdGaLFrxLjy8Gpsr1MrohwGHMXr3jWonbwEwfw3EU6xmE1BpGvqWZq_woZ27GB54_M0/s400/CoinMedallion.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626416126380520114" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Following Colonel Sullivan’s welcome, I was the leadoff speaker with an assignment to “tell us how</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> PS </span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">began.” You’ll find my remarks toward the bottom of this blogpost. Joe followed me, and then handed things off to Lieutenant General Via.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Joe was accompanied on this expedition by Pete Carlsson, his right-hand man at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and in fulfilling Joe’s contract with PS for creative art, design and pre-press production services. My driver/bodyguard/aide-de-camp was my youngest son, Clay, who took the pictures displayed here.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">In our next blogpost, there’s a possibility we may have some video and/or video clips for you. And, in the one after that, we’ll tell you (and show you) our meeting with the current </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> staff.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">To say that I was impressed by the warmth displayed on this occasion would be the understatement of the decade. Spending time with Fitz and his son, Clay, was the cherry on top of the whipped cream.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The soldiers, officers and E were absolutely great. They confirmed our own feelings of the value of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> to lives of soldiers all over the world. I felt humble and proud at the same time.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">On top of all that, I thought they were gonna draft me into the Army—again. Seriously, though, the entire experience was fantastic!</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—J.K.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i>Remarks made by Joe Kubert</i></span></span><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">June 27, 2011, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Following in the footsteps of someone like Will Eisner can be both daunting and rewarding. He described so many times the effectiveness of the combination of the written word and illustration in terms of communication and teaching. His theory: you can take any subject be it as dry as a bone—maintenance—and make it interesting and absorbing if done in an amusing, entertaining manner has been proven over and over again—every month for the last 60 years. It was in this way he applied himself to the subject of maintenance for the army; a well-traveled path that Pete and I have tried to follow.</span></b></span></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZuxaspEuw1EUkikvNiTleutKVWMazGEntpdbG7HgVeN9y06I6PhBthJFUnMZ7P1s0Un5pCPN9ivzYrj1vdzWMJatIy2YXW3cdXzMlVO_6OGTTnuJb_Clh1V818NuylGMYb90XEs4JYY/s1600/JoeLectern.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZuxaspEuw1EUkikvNiTleutKVWMazGEntpdbG7HgVeN9y06I6PhBthJFUnMZ7P1s0Un5pCPN9ivzYrj1vdzWMJatIy2YXW3cdXzMlVO_6OGTTnuJb_Clh1V818NuylGMYb90XEs4JYY/s400/JoeLectern.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626415687878256978" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">JOE at the lectern.</span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:16px;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">But what he did then and what we do today is not just a matter of drawing funny pictures. There has to be a definitive flow, done in such a way that the presentation of the "story" seems natural and legitimate to the reader—including its entertainment value. In this way a subject less conducive to be read and followed—say an announcement about NSN numbers—will be absorbed by a less than interested reader, simply because he is being entertained and learning, whether he realizes it or not. Our mission with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> is to follow the road Will has beaten clean. We have to be innovative, creative, interesting and accurate. I'm not sure which one is the most difficult.Story-telling and sequential art demands a smooth transition when done in panel form and sometimes hopefully a startling surprised reaction from a one-panel form. Armed with the knowledgeable information afforded to us through the Editors our task is to select the proper illustrations utilizing the characters HALF-MAST, CONNIE, BONNIE and BLADE in describing the proper care and maintenance of materials used by the Soldiers in the Armed Forces. All of us understand and realize the seriousness of our mission. We try to be precise and correct in delineating the various equipment and their usages and maintenance. Added to that, we mix some humor (or try to) so that the medicinal dose goes down smoothly and that the recipient is hardly conscious of the fact that he's learned something. We know that the men and women in the Armed Forces stake their lives on their equipment, and the maintenance and understanding of it, every day. Our relationship with the staff of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> has been terrific. And we continue to look forward to working with them into the foreseeable future. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Remarks made by Paul E. Fitzgerald</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">June 27, 2011, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">My assignment today is: “Tell us how </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> began.” That is going to involve a “blivet.” “Blivet” was a World War Two slang term. Its polite definition would be that it involves getting ten pounds into a five-pound bag. Let’s start with this morning’s Magic Words: Sixty years! <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">How sweet it sounds! Has a ring to it. Sixty years ago, we at </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> would have laughed at the thought. There were times when we were sweating out the next sixty DAYS. In plain language, the early, toddling PS was almost smothered in its crib. The sad part is that much of the problem was caused by those most closely involved in its birth and early, shaky steps. </span></b></span></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugoLFy-k7LhAjI_S3Gl_umae9phyphenhyphenfX0Y83QZeqAb-6vMlieVybaqIZlSRkBVlYrn0uZrEiarqNppG-O9qlAvvFD68YPzGNGQcjgaHEFTuoa4zAX_vfeBC12pGY2tF-f0SPUCePyZ00HM/s1600/fitzLectern.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugoLFy-k7LhAjI_S3Gl_umae9phyphenhyphenfX0Y83QZeqAb-6vMlieVybaqIZlSRkBVlYrn0uZrEiarqNppG-O9qlAvvFD68YPzGNGQcjgaHEFTuoa4zAX_vfeBC12pGY2tF-f0SPUCePyZ00HM/s400/fitzLectern.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626305667593584082" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">FITZ at the lectern.</span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The first recorded, official action, involving </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> occurred shortly after the Korean War started in June of 1950. Army Field Forces—later Continental Army Command—at Fort Monroe, referenced the success of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Army Motors</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> during World War Two, and requested that a similar, updated program be initiated. Similar sentiments began to arrive through technical channels from Ordnance officers in Korea and Europe. It was viewed from the outset as an Ordnance matter. </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Plans for a new-and-improved publication were packaged with a revived program of technical assistance representatives. A new organization—the Preventive Maintenance Agency, under the purview of the Field Maintenance Branch of the Office, Chief of Ordnance—was established and located at Aberdeen Proving Group. That command line and physical location loomed large in some of the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> problems that eventuated. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The tossing of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> into the 1951 mix of Army publications provoked cultural-clash criticisms that ranged from “undignified” through “the prejudice of good order and discipline.” Other problems arose from the Reader Service Letter program—a close, direct, and mutually affectionate relationship with its readers—that helped shape the product. Paradoxically, it also turned out to be a major source of friction in our relations with the technical people who reviewed our manuscripts <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Not all Reader Letters were love-notes. In preparing responses to these letters, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> shared them—without identification—with our technical reviewers. In many instances, it was unpleasant news, and we all are familiar with ancient custom regarding messengers bearing bad news. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> was the messenger. The resentment choked our manuscript flow to a trickle. Technicians began to tinker with the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> writing style. Reviews were delayed. That caused an immediate disruption of the publication schedule that was not resolved until intervening higher authority imposed turnaround deadlines and limited review action choices to either “Approved” or “Approved with technical changes as indicated.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Other problems came from internal deficiencies. In less than three years, our first editor was released when </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> only published seven issues in twenty months. In one sixty-day period, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> had THREE editors. It’s only had six more in the fifty-seven years since then. The third editor was James R. Kidd, a twice-decorated infantry officer and member of the West Virginia University School of Journalism faculty, who had been cleared, hired, and was on the staff as a summer intern. He lasted 29 years, and it took him the first ten of them to establish that ours was a communications mission based on timeliness, technical accuracy, an innovative writing style, and artistic creativity. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">At the time, I was the Managing Editor of a newspaper near Aberdeen. Kidd knew me as a WVU-SJ student and graduate. He hired me as the magazine’s first Managing Editor and I went to work there early the next month—October 1963. We agreed to a Good Cop / Bad Cop understanding, cleared out a warren of makeshift cubicles, created a newsroom environment, and established standards and controls. Sequential production deadlines were set for a year in advance. At the end of three months, we returned </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> to an on-time, monthly publication schedule. In the fifty-seven ensuing years, there have been only two publication delays—both caused by outside organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Even though the magazine was marching in the right direction, the frictions and failures of the early years were in our jacket. In January of 1955, we were moved out of Aberdeen—seemed like in the dark of night, with burlap wrapped around the horses’ hooves—and reported for duty at Raritan Arsenal in New Jersey. The fit was not comfortable for anybody. Raritan had long been the home of the Ordnance Corps Publications Division. The very existence of an outside-the-tent </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> was like a genetic aberration at a family reunion. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">It was encouraging, though, that many recognized the potential of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> as a communication tool with a logistics-wide potential, but there was no command mandate for it. In that era of sweeping change, Colonel William B. Latta, in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, moved to resolve the various contentions. In April of 1959, while we were still in exile at Raritan Arsenal, a Logistics Directive formalized—for the first time— the Scope and Objectives of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, including the mandated participation of all technical services and the Reader Service Program with its confidentiality. It also recognized a policy relationship between </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> and the Army Maintenance Board at Fort Knox. Later, in October of 1962, we were moved to Fort Knox and the command of Colonel George C. Benjamin, the President of the Maintenance Board. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">We had found the Home we had never known.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Eisner Saluted </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Gunsmoke</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">¶ Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><i></i></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Characters in Animation</span></span></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-22410733361626110882011-06-21T18:24:00.000-07:002011-06-21T20:13:29.159-07:0019 – PS 703, Sixtieth Anniversary Edition<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj899XLzSdK1LaUtrBPGgyV0FXCmIjRGropauNsLdWsQrpyfVZKtj7DilEH6EZ4MK5-034uNKYptMivzFuz_fMOY6QtjhWEJhjR07JgSwkOXed4TRLne6abt912n0gS-L97r4GZmW1v9zs/s1600/703.28.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "></span></i></p><i><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>PS</b></span></span></i><span style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b> 703 (June 2011), the Sixtieth Anniversary Edition of the U.S. Army’s internationally acclaimed, ground-breaking and pace-setting leader in communicating motivational and technical information, is off the presses and on the streets.</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">It’s a powerful product.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Joe Kubert has done a magnificent job. He pulled out all the stops, used every tool in the shed, and did himself, as well as all the other </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>PS</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> artists who preceded him, proud.</span></b></span></span></p></i><i></i><p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQWRJCYK7xWWjQsqtiikvNJDqVTdJl5sx4OsMMGEWSGc_T26qGRkq0I-VtzfbT01D5bDuiJG0lhZqSZBEwYH0Nu0P3Q_mDql0hpfqXZRCoF-7-KDfmrh0G5CaKZWt48bF5kgILjud2WA/s1600/PS703.FC-BC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQWRJCYK7xWWjQsqtiikvNJDqVTdJl5sx4OsMMGEWSGc_T26qGRkq0I-VtzfbT01D5bDuiJG0lhZqSZBEwYH0Nu0P3Q_mDql0hpfqXZRCoF-7-KDfmrh0G5CaKZWt48bF5kgILjud2WA/s400/PS703.FC-BC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620854938137973890" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The wraparound Front and Back Covers are shown above.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">We then present, below, a string of thirteen double-page spreads and one singleton.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">In the first one, IFC-1, you’ll even find thumbnail head-sketches of Joe, his right-hand man Pete Carlsson, and </span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">moi</span></b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal; 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"></span></i></p><i><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"></span></i></b></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><i><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> Starting with the wraparounds, a close examination of the above selections from </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> 703 will reveal whimsy, humor, technical precision, depth, movement, spaciousness, amazing eye-flow, duotones, functional color, and an unobtrusive yet ever-present awareness of the task at hand.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">It’s a pleasure to be associated with Joe in the presentation of this Blog Salute. He’s a gentleman, a true creative genius, and a wonder to work with!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">—p.e.f.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> ¶ A Covey of Connies: World War II to Today<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> ¶ Eisner Saluted </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Gunsmoke</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> in </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> ¶ </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> ¶ Best of Zeke Zekely in </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> ¶ </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> Characters in Animation</span></span></span></p></i></b></span><p></p></i><p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-9208517196561610142011-06-14T18:02:00.000-07:002011-06-14T19:16:50.774-07:0018 – 'PS' and 4th Armored Division 1963 Event<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Well into the somewhat aggressive European winter of 1962-63, I found myself in southern Germany, holed up in a modest-but-venerable hostelry in Göppingen with two United States Army bull colonels. The antiquated ambience was not marred by any modern notions, such as central heating.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Colonel William B. Latta was head of the Materiel and Maintenance Division in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Colonel George C. Benjamin was the President of the U.S. Army Maintenance Board, located at Fort Knox.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">Colonel Benjamin also was the new boss of <i>PS Magazine</i>. Our entire operation had been transferred to his command less than three months earlier—moved lock-stock-and-Connie Rodd—to Kentucky from Raritan Arsenal in New Jersey</span></b></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJqyU70qk9Ut7WZrXkDy-9ZbqdtHOoPuBcDvGmmhxhNVIKcm56oKBERiOMiEVxgQ-lLXe2wSzP2koKStHEbb8_R6ISqiIREJDVcfa18G66QEhpdA2JIfUK2e0s7m7h9Y1iT9TBKioDLPI/s1600/PS55.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJqyU70qk9Ut7WZrXkDy-9ZbqdtHOoPuBcDvGmmhxhNVIKcm56oKBERiOMiEVxgQ-lLXe2wSzP2koKStHEbb8_R6ISqiIREJDVcfa18G66QEhpdA2JIfUK2e0s7m7h9Y1iT9TBKioDLPI/s400/PS55.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618248877334874450" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">We were in Göppingen to provide assistance to the nearby 4th Armored Division in planning for a Force Readiness and Maintenance Awareness program for the coming summer. At that point on the map and that point in time, this subject was high on the list of the 4th Armored’s priorities. It was based in strategic proximity to German’s borders with Austria and Czechoslovakia.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">One of the fruits of our expedition’s labors fell into my lap, calling for a unit-specific publication, derived from <i>PS</i> archives. The <i>PS</i> staff pulled it together. Final touches, production, and distribution were handled by 4th Armored.</span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The result was a 16-page, self-cover, 5.5 x 8.5 booklet printed in black-plus one (red).</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;">The original cover of <i>PS</i> 55 (April 1957), shown above, was, of course, in full-color. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxZeQLFj0H4JuFG4U_5poUHqUpCMFnfsHJiBfD6k86i71p9wh-Y8TY2tZD7jBhEI4I9du4ainj5UBt5TjgfLn1OFDT5r23fbK61mf17aNqm0ySjgHRbMNwBOM6ckCMGU-hEMZ7idz3Yk/s400/4Armored.BC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618246604379133698" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Back Cover, above, also originally was a full-color <i>PS</i> piece adapted as a duotone.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The two-page spreads shown here, all from Will Eisner’s shop, reflect a <i>PS</i> custom of the time in which most—but not all—issues carried a cross-gutter “message” spread on the Inside Front Cover and Page 1. A vertical index-panel occupied half of the right-hand page. The efforts to achieve a seamless art-flow across the two facing pages were, to a degree, thwarted from the git-go by the surface-difference between the cover-stock and interior-stock. Quality controls in imposition, printing, and folding operations provided another range of variables.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">There is ample evidence here, though, of <i>PS</i> management’s encouragement of Eisner to break out of the columnar-text and rectangular-panel box. There are distinct feelings of space and movement that are surprising for such a small page. There is one especially subtle duotone. With sufficient imagination, one might even catch a whiff of smoke!</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; "></span></span></b></span></span></p><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Y'gotta have guts, and Will Eisner had plenty of that. It's apparent from the examples shown that Will completely ignored the penalties of color (or lack thereof) and misprints of a double-page spread. He had ideas for design that would impact on his readers, maybe even drive them to read the text, provoked by these illustrations both eye-catching and entertaining. So what if they're off-register? Or the color (even the one-color) bleeds outside the outlined illustrations? It's the</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <i>idea</i> that counts, and nothing could stop Will Eisner's ideas</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—j.k.</span></b></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ <i>PS</i> Sixtieth Anniversary Edition<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ A Covey of Connie Covers<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ Eisner Saluted <i>Gunsmoke</i> in <i>PS</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ <i>PS</i> Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ Best of Zeke Zekely in <i>PS</i></span></b></span></p></span></b></span></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-45272931716206093432011-06-07T07:36:00.000-07:002011-06-07T07:39:18.506-07:0017 - PS Artists—60 Years of Dedicated Service<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZ4y2KvHa_rw0ufI7MKZ5r1Czc3-QhH3QGR-HPuc1qj9DHY1XKF82kH0Vz6uarbVAJH9Og5Gqspqd8MvxxFbkTkZa01zsaF-1SCzXtN8A5lhujHMsUYPENSnkf44xohZc1UAaMTVRslE/s1600/PS443.FC.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></span><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">In its 60 years of publication, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> has had eight contractors engaged to provide creative art, publication design and pre-press services. The nature of the procurement process varied from "directed sole-source" to "negotiated controlled price" to "low-bid."</span></b></span></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The longest serving was Will Eisner, with 227 issues produced over 21 years. The shortest tenure was that of Steve High and Jeff Jonas who found it too tough a slog after four issues. Similarly, Zeke Zekely defaulted after six issues, with Murphy Anderson—who had lost the contact to Zekely in a low-bid face-off—stepping back in to maintain continuing publication. At this point in time (No. 702, March 2011), the 150 issues produced by Backes Graphic Productions (Jack and Diane Backes) stands second to Eisner's output in number of issues. Joe Kubert with 124 issues is third, and gaining. Murphy Anderson's two turns totaled 111 issues</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJRx_7c5xnnjlB6AqwajUCsT8EKSfFSmUynM_eRgkhTUtoSPJJjmm-9n5GhFn0nZHlia8fcaawLUf1eq7V37qYnZysnnczuQSWIqhR-D70Nln5xwMXj4EZ0x57-ZcWp8JJYMOFPUcL5A/s1600/PS80.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJRx_7c5xnnjlB6AqwajUCsT8EKSfFSmUynM_eRgkhTUtoSPJJjmm-9n5GhFn0nZHlia8fcaawLUf1eq7V37qYnZysnnczuQSWIqhR-D70Nln5xwMXj4EZ0x57-ZcWp8JJYMOFPUcL5A/s400/PS80.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574013609697948834" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"></span></b></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Will Eisner (Will Eisner Productions), Issues 1-227 </span></span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">June 1951-October 1</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">971</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Will Eisner relinquished the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS Magazine</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> contract in October of 1971. He produced two hundred twenty-seven issues, with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 1 appearing in June of 1951. There is a strong thread of his tradition, technique, taste, and thought reflected in the creative efforts of the seven art contractors who have followed him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The centerspread above is from his </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 80 (June 1959) and the one below is from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 21 (June 1954).</span></span></b></span></p></b></span><p></p></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9bQa87tr06PUOiHDL2V4i3-wjTamACYT9y2Na1sMlLyoHivDkL9GcWC3l65NRo2lhSRvAsRBnpLTsd1fD9GhgZMn01R5jlA2smkcA7Wcfrj8lRAFrjGAkAzwTO6oTM5zshHjAXNQWH4/s1600/PS21.976-977.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs9bQa87tr06PUOiHDL2V4i3-wjTamACYT9y2Na1sMlLyoHivDkL9GcWC3l65NRo2lhSRvAsRBnpLTsd1fD9GhgZMn01R5jlA2smkcA7Wcfrj8lRAFrjGAkAzwTO6oTM5zshHjAXNQWH4/s400/PS21.976-977.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574013195368077170" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"></span></i></b></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><i><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Graphic Spectrum Systems, Issues 228-251 </span></span></span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">November 1971-October 1973</span></span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This group that acquired the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> art contract immediately following Will Eisner's final </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">efforts in the fall of 1971 should really be called the Eisner Alumni Association. The business name that they picked was Graphic Spectrum Systems. Dan Zolnerowich, Mike Ploog, Chuck Kramer, Bob Sprinsky, and Ted Cabarga worked for Will Eisner on </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 227 and for themselves on </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 228.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The precise organizational structure and hierarchy remains hazy, but Ploog says that it was a partnership and that his signature and Sprinsky's were the ones on the contract. The group only survived one two-year contract. That and the mid-contract departure of one of the owner-artists leads to speculation that it was a committee with several co-chairs. The hanging question, "Who was in charge?" remains unanswered. It is well established that Kramer left New York for Israel to live in a kibbutz. Ploog recalls that Kramer bailed out of the operation before the end of the contract.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">There has been an ongoing impression, even among the supervisory </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> staff of the period, that Kramer was calling the shots. Part of this conclusion no doubt resulted from Kramer's known giant ego and his aggressive manner. Kramer's signature on thirteen of the first fourteen covers probably contributed to that conclusion. On the other hand, the permanent disappearance of Kramer's signature after </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 244 (March 1973), could establish the halfway-point of the contract as the time of Kramer's departure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Kramer and Ploog both had mastered Will's inking quirks to a degree that it was difficult for anyone not of the cognoscenti to tell the difference between their work and Will's, much less separate that of the two of them. On the other hand, original work by each was readily identifiable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">At the end of the group's contract, all of them walked away except Zolnerowich, who signed on with Murphy Anderson, the old Eisner hand who was the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> contractor succeeding them. Murphy is a quiet, competent, respected artist who comes from the mountains of western North Carolina. He probably was the oldest one in the Eisner shop. He successfully bid for the task and performed admirably for the next ten years—except for a six-month period when Sponsored Comics (see below) low-balled the bidding and then defaulted on the contract after six issues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The centerspread posted below is from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">234 (May 1972).</span></span></b></span></p></i></b></span><p></p></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk_GNhwkfDiDGaR7dU2BWCSLTobkP1Dk1kUuYx-l3IuqIoJ7Hx9Z5R3m5pVMWYCg1s2vmXokYQ5XpEnzbjCWXwGXdg9J9_Epe7YK2M5Q-ENeHO2-kmdxAlZV_yDidYeuRbWSzJ4Zh405A/s1600/PS234.32-33.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk_GNhwkfDiDGaR7dU2BWCSLTobkP1Dk1kUuYx-l3IuqIoJ7Hx9Z5R3m5pVMWYCg1s2vmXokYQ5XpEnzbjCWXwGXdg9J9_Epe7YK2M5Q-ENeHO2-kmdxAlZV_yDidYeuRbWSzJ4Zh405A/s400/PS234.32-33.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574012711813290050" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i>Visual Concepts (Murphy Anderson), Issues 252-308, November 1973-July 1978 </i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:large;"><b><i>Issues 315-368, February 1979-July 1983</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">After two years in the hands of the post-Eisner group, the contract was won by Murphy Anderson, who produced </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 252 (November 1973) through PS 308 (July 1978).<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Murphy had already established himself as a multi-talented artist in the stables of DC Comics (National Periodical Publications) in the 1960s and 1970s. Murphy was considered to be not only one of their best pencil artists but an amazingly talented inker, inking not only his own pencils, but embellishing the pencil work of others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The team of Curt Swan (pencils) and Murphy Anderson (inks) on Superman in the 1960s and 1970s produced the Superman 'look' that the average Baby-Boomer sees in his mind when he thinks of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Superman</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Murphy also drew </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Hawkman</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Flash</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Batman</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, and virtually all of the DC characters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Other artists in Murphy's shop included: Frank Chiramonte, Augie Scotto, the previously mentioned Dan Zolnerowich, Creig Flessel, Craig Daniels, Howard Berman, and Murphy's son (Murphy III), wife Helen, and daughter Sophie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The centerspread posted below is Murphy's, from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 265 (December 1974).</span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHpZLYya0PaeGYCG_X22DUhweY_ZbyqCnluT9rNT7TELcRM4X9DRC4kKmPYz9Z__2ljZs7vNlSnvTINqc6RkJAPUJx0ZZgFttuNA920XCIh7oZm0k8XFRCveQnNYbsey4jha_eGWXql0/s1600/PS265.32-33.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHpZLYya0PaeGYCG_X22DUhweY_ZbyqCnluT9rNT7TELcRM4X9DRC4kKmPYz9Z__2ljZs7vNlSnvTINqc6RkJAPUJx0ZZgFttuNA920XCIh7oZm0k8XFRCveQnNYbsey4jha_eGWXql0/s400/PS265.32-33.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574012362967696242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Sponsored Comics, Issues 3</span></i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">ugust 1978-January 1979</span></i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">09-314 </span></i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A</span></i></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Zeke Zekely's Sponsored Comics in Beverly Hills, California, held the PS contract for only six issues, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 309 (August 1978) through </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 314 (January 1979).<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The continuities were done by Dan Speigle, who drew movie and television adaptations for Gold Key comics. Titles such as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Lassie</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Fury</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Misadventures of Merlin Jones</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">come to mind. Some fans of Alfredo Alcala, who died in 2000, feel that </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 314, from this period, reflects his work.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">For chronological continuity between Zekely and Perspective Instructional Communications, see Murphy Anderson's second tour of duty (above) carrying the artistic ball following Zekely's default.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The centerspread posted below is from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 309 (August 1978).</span></span></span></b></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8U3L5CoMdeYbddqZpGrqq_SZOKRxvYouUgHxn2pvn_5XlZS5EAcd9_PEG2SKtoSx5vtcD6wW2-tyevGvDWfjWFrOqayUCllcLBqVl9xxed5dDOvx0FXIMiwtnWvAYLBn2h0bbFOQ2Fg/s1600/PS309.32-33.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8U3L5CoMdeYbddqZpGrqq_SZOKRxvYouUgHxn2pvn_5XlZS5EAcd9_PEG2SKtoSx5vtcD6wW2-tyevGvDWfjWFrOqayUCllcLBqVl9xxed5dDOvx0FXIMiwtnWvAYLBn2h0bbFOQ2Fg/s400/PS309.32-33.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574012023123718898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px; " /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Perspective Instructional Communications, Issues 369-424 </span></i></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">August 1983-March 1988</span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Perspective Instructional Communications was located in San Diego, California. Steve High and Jeff Jonas were the main artists. Working with this group in the mid-1980s, Malane Newman was the only female creative artist in the magazine's long history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The centerspread posted below is from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 374 (January 1984).</span></span></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMmGi5FrCV2Ws2f197c1eD8C_-e6G9Gp0NuMtEuqoVP1D2iyq0ajGV1695nWvjJQ4KQpmDxh0OyjN4OYQ87ZcRzrfVsOm9vZWp2MQkti9WI6gS-kpHWxZS0cWmSvgZNJO_JmA_TkeQtA/s1600/PS374.32-33.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMmGi5FrCV2Ws2f197c1eD8C_-e6G9Gp0NuMtEuqoVP1D2iyq0ajGV1695nWvjJQ4KQpmDxh0OyjN4OYQ87ZcRzrfVsOm9vZWp2MQkti9WI6gS-kpHWxZS0cWmSvgZNJO_JmA_TkeQtA/s400/PS374.32-33.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574011516393804082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Air Superiority, Issues 425-428 </span></i></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">April 1988-July 1988</span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">High and Jonas launched Air Superiority (also in San Diego) on their own and obtained the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> contract following Perspective's tenure. They produced only four issues before defaulting on their contract.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Backes Graphic Productions, Issues 429-578 </span></i></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">August 1988-January 2001</span></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Backes Graphic Productions was located in Princeton, New Jersey. Jack and Diane Backes were the owners, with Diane also working on page layouts. Their production manager was Mark "Sparky" Dobrowolski and the lead artist for most of those years was Scott Madsen. Other artists were Augie Scotto (who had worked with Murphy Anderson), Vic Scarpelli, and Brian Orlowski. Staff members were Saronda Stevens, Karen Mamo, and Allison Backes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">In the twelve years that Backes Graphics held the contract, Madsen probably drew more</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> stories than anyone except Will Eisner, but Joe Kubert, now starting his eleventh year with the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> contact, is closing in on him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Front Cover posted below is from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 443 (October 1989).</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cg9VLZxB8_zYbBp0QQDkQZlRyqVDGWaBBmiOLm85JA44WcG0Hhk5wbL0WQXp2JqlIaSh23B8gyJUY7yVxX1Hh71boxvRTmc5a2mR7XpEDxg79XKa9YWmPTXr4Qz2dnMq1jVaCriuvGo/s400/PS443a.FCa.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615468584944781778" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_0Q8ML6wAHBqfNjX9HuICQwGrCiysseIrSfFyvILFemtXf2L6VzZSK8etBxlAVlwewHkwjNxxIQxCG9lspXG8OQEJFfwkdc8QWTrgbycFI148NkU68B4V4Vtnjsgaai23GVVlAWUR2w/s400/PS629.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615423443460638658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></b></span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Tell-A-Graphics (Joe Kubert), Issues 579-(currently 703) </span></b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">February 2001-ongoing</span></b></i></span></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Joe Kubert's Tell-A-Graphics Company in Dover, New Jersey, won the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> art and pre-press production contract in 2000. They began working on </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 579 in October 2000 and continue today under a renewal that is written with options for extensions. The unique factor in play here is that Kubert's production of the magazine draws on the resources of the highly regarded Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, which was established 1976 in New Jersey.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Kubert worked for Will as a young boy. His job was to erase stray pencil lines and fill in black areas with ink, freeing up more established artists to go on to more important tasks.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Joe, as did Murphy Anderson, hit his stride as an artist for DC Comics in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. He is especially known for drawing </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">SGT Rock, Tarzan, The Enemy Ace, Our Army at War,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Losers,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> along with DC characters such as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Superman, Batman,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> and</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Hawkman</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Kubert is widely known and respected for his graphic novels. Since beginning his affiliation with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, he has produced </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Yossel: April 19, 1943, Jew Gangster</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, a SGT Rock original graphic novel (written by Brian Azzarello), a </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Tor</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> mini-series, and the original graphic novel </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Dong Xoal, Vietnam 1965</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">His right-hand man and production manager, Pete Carlsson, coordinates an extensive team of artists.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Front Cover posted immediately above is from PS 629 (April 2005). and the art posted below is a feature panel from the Continuity in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> 643 (June 2006).</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">—p.e.f.</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Kr8r7oFdJa9mdRlEB8JElKe4xTLe7uwaGYJHTC9CxGo0rmnW8xKeLPlzjfwTia61qYF_Ou3sh6hpAIbcFjl0LQZqFu7N0cR3Z-A-ykpWqaTl7fI3CXLjj09RVQeRF8n5iRAhcW3U_xI/s1600/PS643.34.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Kr8r7oFdJa9mdRlEB8JElKe4xTLe7uwaGYJHTC9CxGo0rmnW8xKeLPlzjfwTia61qYF_Ou3sh6hpAIbcFjl0LQZqFu7N0cR3Z-A-ykpWqaTl7fI3CXLjj09RVQeRF8n5iRAhcW3U_xI/s400/PS643.34.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574009695563505138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 400px; " /></a><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></span></span></span></span></i></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">UPCOMING POSTINGS:</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b></b></span></span></p><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ Eisner Saluted </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Gunsmoke</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></span></i></li></ol></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></span></i></li></ol></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Sixtieth Anniversary Edition</span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></li></ol></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ A Covey of Connie Covers</span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></li></ol></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration</span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></li></ol></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></li></ol></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">¶ Early Covers Put Eisner and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> in Hot Water</span></li></ol></b></span></div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top: 0in; display: inline !important; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></li></ol></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975125740477886465.post-66275623503334620642011-05-26T11:52:00.000-07:002011-05-30T17:29:49.410-07:0016 - Warriors and Weather: Part D<div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;"><b>We’ve uploaded fifteen graphic selections for this sixteenth BlogPost in our ongoing, year-long salute during this Sixtieth Anniversary Year of the U.S. Army’s internationally acclaimed preventive maintenance publication, <i>PS Magazine</i>. This presentation also is the final segment of a four-part series, <i>Warriors and Weathe</i>r, lifting up the singular adroitness developed by <i>PS</i> in its recognition and depiction of the challenges, conflicts, worries, and woes that inevitably occur when military tasks and operations are further confounded by the intrusion of season and climate.</b></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>Art and design by Murphy Anderson, Will Eisner, and Joe Kubert have been selected not only to exhibit true “weather” eyes and pens, but also to illustrate a discussion of some of the (then) innovative concepts and techniques, recognized and encouraged by the<i> PS</i> staff, and pursued, adapted, and expanded by the contract artists. The publication’s success derives from a delicate melding of mission objectives, technical accuracy, graphic possibilities, and artistic imaginations</b></span></span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YS95lSGohq6yg6jU11qKCwNUbv2MVvDP9uG1M9NAaKXCf4Mh508zzZ04p8Jb02jkIaQ3yFPWrHhpuA7hU3fRO9KIuqVrmzLWzYZdEPU0nZY7tEface_Ua83SkxcyCVNiLN2EFdhrosw/s1600/PS120.IFC-%2521.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YS95lSGohq6yg6jU11qKCwNUbv2MVvDP9uG1M9NAaKXCf4Mh508zzZ04p8Jb02jkIaQ3yFPWrHhpuA7hU3fRO9KIuqVrmzLWzYZdEPU0nZY7tEface_Ua83SkxcyCVNiLN2EFdhrosw/s400/PS120.IFC-%2521.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611105411172910242" /></a><br /><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzYrp4svB1d4hLZpUl9Tv39M-Ijn5PNT1DhDolAnEKyqf26A5UEJEucKsUd0UeUe9W0-4hHTo6PFFmCRaNZuJP_Rpcvz5M4J3eYgenMy3HoVoD9j7pGbY6h2KP-UdhY08cT5tja5S7jw/s1600/PS120.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzYrp4svB1d4hLZpUl9Tv39M-Ijn5PNT1DhDolAnEKyqf26A5UEJEucKsUd0UeUe9W0-4hHTo6PFFmCRaNZuJP_Rpcvz5M4J3eYgenMy3HoVoD9j7pGbY6h2KP-UdhY08cT5tja5S7jw/s320/PS120.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611104693775472434" /></a><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>One of the earlier issues fully dedicated to weather concerns, during the first decade of <i>PS</i>, was <i>PS</i> 120 which came off the presses in November of 1962, out of Will Eisner’s shop. Its focus was cold weather, and its mission was summarized in the main front-of-the-book spread, Inside Front Cover-Page 1, shown above.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>You saw the <i>PS</i> 120 Front Cover, right, in full-size in our preceding BlogPost 15.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>The planning for <i>PS</i> 120 began a year in advance. In mid-winter 1961-62, as Managing Editor, I found myself in Alaska and tasked with obtaining both climate and equipment photography for artists’ references, researching situational jargon, and developing a content wish-list from knowledgeable troops—on all rungs of the command-ladder. In the process, I also became aware of the ambiance in a tent at -45°.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>Two more cold weather Front Covers by Will are shown below: <i>PS</i> 202 (September 1969) and <i>PS</i> 211 (June 1970), right.</b></span></span></p></div><div><div><div><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIzUcnfX9-t_jQA-I0e1Sx7ZU_U2i6Y0yjquEzkUkD6a0Hwe2JRCqXKkEaevpLenPHmDyHKk5OpvOa_8_OOoBGpP7xGIvIcV1L8qYhyBTroN_6DzvBSQgepgxmeCXTfg86P0FB-mI2gc/s1600/PS202.FC-PS211.FC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIzUcnfX9-t_jQA-I0e1Sx7ZU_U2i6Y0yjquEzkUkD6a0Hwe2JRCqXKkEaevpLenPHmDyHKk5OpvOa_8_OOoBGpP7xGIvIcV1L8qYhyBTroN_6DzvBSQgepgxmeCXTfg86P0FB-mI2gc/s400/PS202.FC-PS211.FC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611103960943396562" /></a><br /><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7twEEM_sfTRTkkMKYbovJ4Giua7YaKOKWDdlYspjFq0e1Gy6BNGUaSTx6ejDM-EnAtecWIufbRqgrJSgxUJTceOt_chUJx6cZpkhyT_HTnbNxnvEUUaWgnb-5KiEBOMXoaf-V0m7Ndk/s1600/PS627.IFC.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7twEEM_sfTRTkkMKYbovJ4Giua7YaKOKWDdlYspjFq0e1Gy6BNGUaSTx6ejDM-EnAtecWIufbRqgrJSgxUJTceOt_chUJx6cZpkhyT_HTnbNxnvEUUaWgnb-5KiEBOMXoaf-V0m7Ndk/s400/PS627.IFC.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611103409044412290" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>Cold weather depictions by Joe Kubert, the current <i>PS</i> creative art and pre-press services contractor, as previously presented in this series, have displayed his utilization of the PS tradition of pushing the graphic envelope, plus an imaginative enhancement building on it. Joe marked his tenth anniversary with <i>PS</i> this past February.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>Joe’s page design above is the Inside Front Cover from <i>PS</i> 627 (February 2005). The one below is Page 2 from <i>PS</i> 696 (November 2010).</b></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHHBH8dSXwjsNx2bTKPW15Hmxm6by-o2To9iD-XclDnm4RVG1EIBbJfRq60Kd7g-qhA6BOzMH8pBX4nZyqMvHcRB5zxzRW29IZXefGAsT3VjmU_6MuGMnhvh4Mt2c-4zxfsSDRFtaF4o/s1600/PS696.2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHHBH8dSXwjsNx2bTKPW15Hmxm6by-o2To9iD-XclDnm4RVG1EIBbJfRq60Kd7g-qhA6BOzMH8pBX4nZyqMvHcRB5zxzRW29IZXefGAsT3VjmU_6MuGMnhvh4Mt2c-4zxfsSDRFtaF4o/s400/PS696.2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611103158701044450" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiChyL5-QmqPBOu2faZ4m4mX625aY6Lphcu3jIUEfSsD8QT3hkAH314Z8qOAi9Xvuv7XusriFDKwS5xJr2SO5opU0EH_uY5ZVQhnecDdyfw7hnDE4_kAYI3E50XDJdypv5PgxDKsODqHcI/s1600/PS323.4-5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiChyL5-QmqPBOu2faZ4m4mX625aY6Lphcu3jIUEfSsD8QT3hkAH314Z8qOAi9Xvuv7XusriFDKwS5xJr2SO5opU0EH_uY5ZVQhnecDdyfw7hnDE4_kAYI3E50XDJdypv5PgxDKsODqHcI/s400/PS323.4-5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611102768276317250" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>Murphy Anderson is a seasoned veteran of <i>PS</i> artistic endeavors at many levels, stretching across two decades, from a hired-pen in Eisner’s shop, through the time of “The Eisner Alumni Group,” and his own nearly ten years as The Man. It has been said—purely in jest, I’m sure—that the only three people in the world who could distinguish between inking by Will Eisner, Mike Ploog, and Murphy Anderson were—Eisner, Ploog, and Anderson.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>In our immediately preceding BlogPost 15, we introduced you to Murphy’s <i>PS</i> 323 (October 1979) as another example of a complete issue devoted to cold weather concerns. In that posting, we showed you the Front Cover and Continuity.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>Our selection of Murphy’s art for this specific presentation consists solely of two-color, interior, pages from the same issue. The purpose is to display the presence of evolved graphic threads of two-color design, creative use of Ben-Day (benday, if you prefer) screen values, melding of text and art, utilization of every square-centimeter of “real estate,” and a pronounced aversion to templates. This discussion will be continued below.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:large;"><b>From <i>PS</i> 323, they are: Pages 4-5, above; and, below, in this order, Pages 58-59, 60-61, 54-55, 10-11, and 6-7. BTW: The “yellow” on Pages 60-61 was not there when they came off the press, but probably were given this “authenticating enhancement” by some ranking NCO with a highlighter.</b></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiCtvGK9Zt9ai9Fkoj1FF9r860zfkLAvHa6YneAYtmom3muelEn6l2vmdlr-RXcWN3NQ7LoM85GMNkYJDg3g6Z4xw-6TakOWE6RQJ2E3I4aXhUXLkVvKTQ_WTkGeyi8tbG4t279s6XZg/s1600/PS323.58-59.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiCtvGK9Zt9ai9Fkoj1FF9r860zfkLAvHa6YneAYtmom3muelEn6l2vmdlr-RXcWN3NQ7LoM85GMNkYJDg3g6Z4xw-6TakOWE6RQJ2E3I4aXhUXLkVvKTQ_WTkGeyi8tbG4t279s6XZg/s400/PS323.58-59.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611102599006840194" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ko32iYbdhFpx4HjwVr3gmz-WnuAsRzSSanybeHHalxtJKeu7HNMKZZjaFUy8Qgf4mGHPgmnxogQ6GfHeoN2Y4XOy3wIrdIYMg7fgJoYjA14Q3HGhqrRNpU_6B4c5v0wDmc6odTuQEDE/s1600/PS323.60-61.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3PUW0ile39u3humrxp8pGvcEbbF7zPEZx_ahIMWcRv3774Xxvr3RHmoFLXkpXjxJrbwC4ZTFhUwwU3SMJDcwsw88XqONgo7NmHv6Jlhv2bbed1en47BNcz9qCSwkUvUulDVUp5B6hoY/s400/PS113.29.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611101474523996242" /></a><br /></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;"><b>Beginning with the page displayed above, and continuing below, some less-frigid focus on weather is provided by this Continuity that Will Eisner did for <i>PS</i> 113 (April 1962). The two pages that are not shown here were used for the centerspread-miniposter that addressed an unrelated subject.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhTe-SZIodeL8dwvsb52KXQbElX8MamgDhgk0pbAlnjk2yVY4DPznq2Aq3MY4_LA43_-tWAXAfgTOzG0MKzGB2_FtPMiR6PLo1dfocurjvE87FgroH1UUIwC-MOBRYCwGyG2F-PgGH0M/s1600/PS113.30-31.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhTe-SZIodeL8dwvsb52KXQbElX8MamgDhgk0pbAlnjk2yVY4DPznq2Aq3MY4_LA43_-tWAXAfgTOzG0MKzGB2_FtPMiR6PLo1dfocurjvE87FgroH1UUIwC-MOBRYCwGyG2F-PgGH0M/s400/PS113.30-31.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611101167247391858" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEUhQFIYjk0-Dvy-zd1KrN0KE18j1KQrwf_1UVPE7d16eW9z3BILsJP8v5R-eUyr5Ems6-Exmoj6s_k2dzJ69AKh2wDbP9zygiU1DmBZVqxaWNYMZEAA4I1DdQFGaL4P1-QNOvvqwQiyE/s1600/PS113.34-35.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEUhQFIYjk0-Dvy-zd1KrN0KE18j1KQrwf_1UVPE7d16eW9z3BILsJP8v5R-eUyr5Ems6-Exmoj6s_k2dzJ69AKh2wDbP9zygiU1DmBZVqxaWNYMZEAA4I1DdQFGaL4P1-QNOvvqwQiyE/s400/PS113.34-35.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611100747969714290" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmraVrZqEamPYdwjY20Q5mIRcd670nm1rGxK38LR8StD33mR9T9tV1pTWuZLoZYHoHBlLkFzBV9H7HSNIlGUICc2lxZFu8t1cYZnUrCMzTfieli8QVPMfpPsi72dQHiQC68A_Qvgd7VEc/s1600/PS113.36.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmraVrZqEamPYdwjY20Q5mIRcd670nm1rGxK38LR8StD33mR9T9tV1pTWuZLoZYHoHBlLkFzBV9H7HSNIlGUICc2lxZFu8t1cYZnUrCMzTfieli8QVPMfpPsi72dQHiQC68A_Qvgd7VEc/s400/PS113.36.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611100249068099490" /></a></div></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;"><b>Considering the known lead-time involved in the four-color elements of <i>PS</i>, it is interesting to note the locale (Glob Island) involved in this sequence. Will probably started the roughs for it not too long after he and I returned from a <i>PS</i> research trip to Asia and the Pacific Basin.</b></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>In those days, <i>PS</i> managers were encouraging Eisner to bend and break graphic design barriers regarding <i>PS</i> as effectively as he had those in the world of comics. Unfortunately, technology and economics were the jokers in the deck.</b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>“Typographic ingenuity” was an oxymoron when the Linotype operator was king, “hot” type was the only game in town, and choice of fonts was something of a “vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry” proposition. Ninety-degree angles ruled. Anything other than miles and miles of rigid, straight columns was a stab in the wallet. Irregular measures and wraparounds were fantasies.</b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Color was something else, again. There was no arguing with the limitations codified by the formulaic charts of the “bogus” four-color separation system based on three fixed values each for C, M, and Y, and you had best stick to plain "solid" for K.</b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>For spot color, which was the purely manual world of the <i>PS</i> two-color interior pages, it all came down to acetate overlays and hand-painted areas. Which meant multiple film shots, agonizing stripping, and multiple burns to plates. It was no wonder that Eisner approached apoplexy when we introduced the idea of duotone mixes of Ben-Day values</b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>He came to like it.</b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>I discussed several aspects of this evolution in my <i><a href="http://www.willeisnerandpsmagazine.com/">Will Eisner and PS Magazine</a></i>.</b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>—p.e.f.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:large;"><b> </b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Having worked in the medium of comic book reproduction, color and otherwise, no one can appreciate the sweat and vicissitudes Will Eisner, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">et al</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, experienced more than I.</span></b></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Before the advent of the computer, if the components of green (yellow and blue) met less than a quarter of an inch apart, the color print was considered a success. Art corrections were done with razors, scissors and rubber cement. Balloons and sound effects were done by hand with pen, brush and ink. On top of all that, deadlines had to be met.</span></b></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Gone are the rubber cement and the cut-out corrections. But Will cut a clear path that we can all follow!</span></b></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">—j.k.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">UPCOMING BLOG POSTS— <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Early Covers Put Eisner, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> in Hot Water<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ The Best of Zeke Zekely in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ A Covey of Connie Covers<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ Perspective Instructional Communications' Best in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> ¶ </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">PS</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> Art Contractors—60 Years of Dedication</span></b></span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><br /></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0