Alex Toth

Yeah.

Space Ghost created by the great Alex Toth, voiced by Gary Owens and Don Messick and our former podcast guest on the old show, Tim Matheson.

The Mighty Heroes.

Yes.

Yeah.

And I've already talked about what he's doing is a lot like Alex Toth did as he got older.

Alex Toth was always...

He always told artists, and he did this himself, remove every line that doesn't need to be there and then draw the hell out of what's left.

Frank Miller is breaking down the figures... to their simplest components.

Much like Alex Toth did.

Much like Kirby did.

Much like a lot of people do.

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting with a lot of these creators and a lot of creators that I admire, you have those kinds of, you know, the personal side is, I don't want to say problematic, especially in the case of Alan Moore, but they are complex individuals.

You know, I'm a huge Alex Toth fan, and if you're familiar with Alex Toth, almost everybody that was close to him at some point, he kind of separated from.

You know, and I'm not saying Alan Moore and Alex Toth are, you know, the same personality types or whatever.

But I do think that happens a lot with creative types of people.

You know, there's it's a strange it's a strange career, you know, to sort of be creative or to make art.

You can argue with me on that.

I did, you know, also recently talk about how much I love Alex Toth, but there isn't a single well-written Alex Toth comic.

Well, that's fair comments.

I think the drawing is often a lot better than the content.

So, you know, I looked at certain artists.

I remember pulling out an Alex Toth story that how he did kind of dogfights in the air.

And I'm certainly I'm no Alex Toth, obviously.

But there was that kind of I kind of got a sense of within the structure of a panel or the structure of a six, five, six panel page, how you can achieve movement.

And that was really all I was kind of looking for, is to try to get movement on the page.

on.

Watching this and the James Coburn piece you picked out for the thing, I was just feeling like I was reading an Alex Toth early 70s House of Secrets story.

I was like, this is just what was on.

Everybody was into the occult.

And yeah, a lot of people are going to go Neil Adams.

And I'm going to say, Hey man, don't forget about Alex Toth.

You know, it's going to be that kind of thing.

Uh, anyway, so, uh,

Well, I think that a lot of it comes from the less is more.

Really, that's more reflected in Paul Fricke's less is more approach that he uses that he takes from Alex Toth.

And if you look at Alex Toth's work, he's doing a lot of black spotting.

So he has a lot of figures that will be in the foreground that are just silhouettes.

Okay.

Yeah.

But Alex Toth is the name of the artist, and he's phenomenal.

Had a great run in comics and did a lot of animation and backgrounds and things like that.

But, um, yeah, I think he did a fantastic job on the artwork.

I will say the, the, the, the final result is, is odd to watch.

Right.

Yeah, but I think Alex Toth deserves all the credit in the world for the wonderful artwork, though.

Yeah.