Jim Thompson

Comic Book Historians Presents... Jim Thompson

Celebrate illustrator-writer Howard Chaykin's life and works through a career spanning zine that encompasses his life, controversies, and biographical interview that starts with his birth in 1950 through his childhood reading comic books and watching films during the 1960s, his training under Gil Kane, Wally Wood, and Neal Adams in the late 1960s through the early 1970s, his early work at Marvel including drawing the first Star Wars comics, DC, Atlas/Seaboard, Byron Preiss, Heavy Metal, and on into American Flagg! for First Comics, as well as his work on The Shadow: Blood and Judgment, Time (Squared), Blackhawk: Blood and Iron, Black Kiss, Cyberella with Don Cameron, his television career including the 1990s TV show The Flash, The Legend with Russ Heath, Hawkgirl with Walt Simonson, his more recent Marvel career in 2012, Black Kiss II, the controversy surrounding the Divided States of Hysteria, and finally his ode to comic history Hey Kids! Comics!