This is the fourth page of my 5-page pitch to DC Comics, in
1992, for a Batman comics project based off the TV series. I’m including the
storyboard pages from which it was adapted. Bruce Timm’s hand can be seen in
this storyboard sequence, as he took it upon himself to ink several of the
Batman and Man-Bat figures. At this late date (24 years hence and given the
crappy quality of the source copies) it’s hard for me to tell which clean ups
are his and which are mine, especially since I was doing my best to imitate his
style.
I should write a few words on what a gas it was to work on
this series. I the operative on-going question was, “How long can this go on
before they stop us?” As far as I know we were blessedly free from
interference, at least on Season One, which was my tenure (along with “Masque
of the Phantasm”, where I storyboarded the climactic “Tomorrowland” sequence.)
Bruce Timm’s simplified, stylized character designs were fun and easy to draw,
and Eric Radomski’s background stylings were inherently dramatic, lending
themselves to cool compositions. My unit director, Kevin Altieri, and I were so
in synch that he could hand me a chunk of other artists’ storyboards and say,
“This doesn’t work; fix it.” I was doing my best work up to that point and
barely putting in a 40-hour week. (In fact, I was helping other artists meet
THEIR deadlines. ) Oh yeah, and the writing was good.
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