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Mike Ploog: Modern Masters Volume Nineteen
by Roger Ash & Eric Nolen-Weathington
TwoMorrows Publishing
November 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60549-007-6
In the less than wonderful days that college was for me - which would be some time between disco and Star Wars - there were a few bright spots. One was my having a friend. The other was Marvel's B&W comic-book Planet of the Apes, written by Doug Moench. Many stories were illustrated by Mike Ploog. He had been drawing comics for some time, and I had come across a few issues of Frankenstein, but it was with Apes that I truly discovered his art. He later worked on the promising Weirdworld, but it was short-lived. After that, he pretty much dropped off the comic-book scene. (Come to think of it, so did Val Mayerik, another Frankenstein artist.) I knew that Ploog had been keeping busy, as you can see here.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1dsnTuBkM )
Until I read this book's long interview that was profusely illustrated, I didn't know how many other movies he had been involved with, mostly as a character designer or as a storyboard artist. He also was an animator on Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and, hey, is that young Tim Burton working for him on that film and having trouble rotoscoping Eisenstein's horse hooves? He has also been involved in fantasy books.
And I hear that, after working for Will Eisner years ago, he is about to embark on new adventures of the Spirit, from stories by Sergio Aragonès.
Joy!
by Roger Ash & Eric Nolen-Weathington
TwoMorrows Publishing
November 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60549-007-6
In the less than wonderful days that college was for me - which would be some time between disco and Star Wars - there were a few bright spots. One was my having a friend. The other was Marvel's B&W comic-book Planet of the Apes, written by Doug Moench. Many stories were illustrated by Mike Ploog. He had been drawing comics for some time, and I had come across a few issues of Frankenstein, but it was with Apes that I truly discovered his art. He later worked on the promising Weirdworld, but it was short-lived. After that, he pretty much dropped off the comic-book scene. (Come to think of it, so did Val Mayerik, another Frankenstein artist.) I knew that Ploog had been keeping busy, as you can see here.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1dsnTuBkM )
Until I read this book's long interview that was profusely illustrated, I didn't know how many other movies he had been involved with, mostly as a character designer or as a storyboard artist. He also was an animator on Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and, hey, is that young Tim Burton working for him on that film and having trouble rotoscoping Eisenstein's horse hooves? He has also been involved in fantasy books.
And I hear that, after working for Will Eisner years ago, he is about to embark on new adventures of the Spirit, from stories by Sergio Aragonès.
Joy!
