tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post8702387671669399063..comments2024-03-04T04:08:39.755-08:00Comments on The Fies Files: Darwyn CookeBrian Fieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-47097297222293574182016-05-20T22:24:57.426-07:002016-05-20T22:24:57.426-07:00Thanks a lot for your comments, Hank. I appreciate...Thanks a lot for your comments, Hank. I appreciate you reading Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, too! <br /><br />Chris Reeve did bulk up for the role but he was no bodybuilder--not that it would have changed his proportions much. Reeve was great and the gold standard, but I actually like Henry Cavill's look as Superman very much. I just don't like much about the stories his writers and producers put him in. No idea how a comic book Superman's measurements would scale up into reality. It'd probably turn out something like trying to make a living Barbie doll--a nightmare! <br /><br />Thanks again.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-51289523325760564532016-05-20T20:34:34.361-07:002016-05-20T20:34:34.361-07:00Brian, I keep going back to that picture of Christ...Brian, I keep going back to that picture of Christopher Reeve and the Superman drawing. I think Reeve was the best looking live-action Superman ever (best uniform too), yet compared to the drawing, he looks kind of puny and almost fat! What do you figure the drawn Superman’s waist size is in that drawing?Hank Gillettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17328364486555780403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-2738149004968941982016-05-20T20:28:24.933-07:002016-05-20T20:28:24.933-07:00Disney’s Epcot is like a permanent World’s Fair. I...Disney’s Epcot is like a permanent World’s Fair. I don’t think there is any way that one could have the kind of impact that the 1939 NY World’s Fair, the 1893 Chicago one with the huge Ferris Wheel, or the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 (and several others) had. <br /><br />For one thing, people were a lot more optimistic about the future. Today, people seem to thing that everything is going to hell, despite conquering many diseases, a higher average standard of living, more civil rights for minorities, and hand-held computers that also make telephone calls (even if we don’t have our flying cars!). I’ll have to find and re-read my copy of “Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?” to see what else we are missing.Hank Gillettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17328364486555780403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-34556923389987350832016-05-19T17:08:10.880-07:002016-05-19T17:08:10.880-07:00You're welcome, Hank. You're right about t...You're welcome, Hank. You're right about the cel look of Cooke's superhero art. You can almost see the light coming through them.<br /><br />Randy, thanks for reading my book! I agree about Expo 67; it's the last one I remember having a real cultural impact, and it's hard to imagine huge numbers of people getting excited about anything similar in the future.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-54481363416012101832016-05-19T16:34:12.318-07:002016-05-19T16:34:12.318-07:00I just discovered your blog. I loved The New Front...I just discovered your blog. I loved The New Frontier, and Cooke's work on it was one of the big reasons. I'm sorry to hear he passed. I love his style.<br /><br />I've also just picked up a copy of What Ever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? A friend of mine and I were talking recently about the Montreal Expo 67 and how it may have been the last great World Exposition. So, I've been thinking a lot lately about mid-20th century optimism and it's loss. I very much enjoyed your particular take on the subject.RLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577690787217064889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-5689242641976046832016-05-16T16:58:22.582-07:002016-05-16T16:58:22.582-07:00Thanks for the article. The things you explained w...Thanks for the article. The things you explained were very obvious once you pointed them out. Many of the Cooke drawings you used as examples do look like animation cels.Hank Gillettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17328364486555780403noreply@blogger.com