I generally don’t share the entirety of these strips on social media, but I like this one a lot, so…
Added 2025-08-07 20:13:12 +0000 UTCFor those of you that don’t know, Frank Giacoia was one of the great comic book inkers of all time. An exceptional artist, he did full drawing duties on some great stuff, including the Sherlock Holmes newspaper strip. But he’s perhaps best known as an inker on work ranging from
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golden age titles to the height of Marvel-mania. For my money, he’s one of the very best, if not THE best inker to have worked over Jack Kirby’s pencils.
This strip hits home for me a bit, as I’m now likely close to Giacoia’s age when I met him. He was very lively speaking to me at the time, but you could also tell that unemployment (and if I understand correctly, alcoholism) had taken a tremendous toll. Take care of your health, folks, both in mind and body.
Anyhow, I like how this turned out so I’ll share on social media, but tomorrow. Today, you lot get first look at it.
Hope all are well,
Sde
Xox
Comments
I was sitting across from Big Al at the time this was all going down, Betty. Alan probably knows some of this story….
Stephen DeStefano
2025-08-07 20:16:38 +0000 UTCHaving a chance to tell someone how much you like their work is great. I bet it made his day as well as yours.
Elizabeth Gold
2025-08-07 20:16:02 +0000 UTC
