JL Mast

@jlmast.bsky.social

Artist on "Ghosts of Marvel Comics", "Daredevil/Punisher Seventh Circle", "Thanos A God Up There Listening", "Ultimate Spider-Man Infinite"

I went through my copies of the IDW Ditko book and the Taschen XXL ASM collections to find all the pieces of original art that aren't in the recent Spidey Artist's Edition and I've identified fifteen pages. First up is page 5 from Amazing Spider-Man #6.

Original art for page 5 of Amazing Spider-Man #6 by Steve Ditko.

Chapter 10 of my graphic novel about Marvel Comics is a bit of a mess. Too long. Too many flashbacks and flash forwards… I tried to cut and reorganize for a while now. Im not pleased with it. I’m gonna wait a few weeks before trying to rewrite and restoryboard. Restart fresh

Gerry Conway passed away. Here's part of his co-plot for #Ironman #39. At the time of his writing, he thought he'd work with artist George Tuska. Herb Trimpe ended up being his collaborator on it. This one page plot would translate to about 9 pages of comicbook. Written around Dec 1970. #marvel

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The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

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We said adieu to my cousin this week, who passed away at 48 years old. Yesterday, I met my newest cutest baby nephew. To quote Marjane Satrapi : life passes with or without God

1930s, Superman beats up fat cats + union busters 1940s, everyone punches Nazis 1950s, MAD Magazine (hoohah!) 1960s, heroes vs fascists/supremacists 1970s, Cap vs POTUS + insurrectionist aristocrats, BP vs Klan 1980s, DD deals w fallout of drug war, Cap vs Iran Contra, Reagan is a (literal) snake

I always thought if I did Ramadan I would just forget and eat stuff all the time and be like oh shit every day for a month. I don’t know how people manage to do it

When I’m writing I think I’m looking for a feeling I had as a kid that comics were made by giants. (and then you grow up, and you realize… no, they were made by people who needed rent money argh argh)

About doing a documentary graphic novel: I like filmmakers like Raymond Depardon or Claire Simon, comics artists like Emmanuel Guibert. Good observers & listeners . They don’t overwrite the lives they portray. They create smthing that honors complexity+ leaves room for silence.

comic do something very specific: they stop things. IRL, everything moves all the time, memories shift, stories change, details will depend on who’s talking.