![]() ![]() ![]() What he didn’t know at the time is that some of his biggest fans would eventually take important creative and production jobs in Hollywood in the 21 st century, where they could bring his stories to a much wider audience. Starlin had built a fanbase and a reputation as comic’s “cosmic guy” with his work on Captain Marvel and other titles, and sought to build his own unique mythology for his creations. He was able to take this unusual path for a mainstream property because he worked in the industry at a moment when even the large companies were carving out space for creator-owned work. Once the pages started piling up, it was pretty stunning.”ĭreadstar dates back to stories Starlin created in the early 1980s Marvel magazine Epic Illustrated and continued in several different forms for different publishers over the years. Over a period of a few months, he got back to drawing the way he always did. 15 minutes, then an hour, then a few hours. “We were talking with Jim about who we could get to draw the script he wrote, and one day he called and said, ‘I think I’ve got an artist… a guy named Starlin.’ Little by little, he started to draw. Ominous editor-in-chief Ron Marz says he was pleasantly surprised that Starlin was willing and able to do the artwork on the book. ![]() Jaime Jameson (left) and Jim Starlin with a spread from Starlin's latest graphic novel, Dreadstar. ![]()
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