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John Byrne
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The “Muppet-ness” comes in part from Terry’s inks. Reviewing these issues, via the ESSENTIAL trades, I am more than ever struck by the changes the inks brought to the pencils. Terry does not build faces the same way I do, for instance, and more often than not he favors his approach over mine—unconsciously I am sure.
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Eric White
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Do any copies of your pencils exist from that era of X-Men, JB?
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John Byrne
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Not that I know of. I did not have access to a xerox machine, and Marvel was not in the habit of sending me copies.
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Steve Gumm
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Eric- Here's a nice panel image from Dave Mandel's collection on comicartfans.com that shows JB's pencils from an unused X-Men 138 page.
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John Byrne
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Yes, those few bits and pieces from 138’s original form are as close, I think, to seeing pages from that period still in pencil. And those, of course, are the actual pages, not pencils. (Truth is, I’ve never really had a “historian’s” mentality toward my own work.)
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Richard Stevens
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Why would you? You just keep moving forward and making more!
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Scott Sackett
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Someone recently posted a single page of X-Men pencils on one of the JB facebook groups. I asked where they had found it since I'd only seen the stuff from 138, but they just said they'd found it online.
It looked legit, but seemed to be a xerox (the contrast seemed bumped up) I saved it somewhere, if I find it I'll post it.
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Eric White
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Thanks Steve and Scott.
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Robbie Moubert
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Sometime between the publication of X-men 137 and Phoenix: The Untold Story, a magazine (I think it was Comics Feature but I can't swear to it) published some of JB's pencils from 137 and 138.
The page containing those panels of Cyclops from 137 was printed in full somewhere but I can't remember where.
Here's a link to the page from 138 on CAF.
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 19 February 2019 at 11:28pm
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Robbie Moubert
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Found a larger image of the full-page of Jean.
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 19 February 2019 at 11:31pm
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Robbie Moubert
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A bit more digging turned up these:
I think the pictures in this post and the previous one are from Comics Feature (the splash page of Jean was also on the cover) so I'm not sure where the pictures in my first post were published.
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 20 February 2019 at 10:18am
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Matt Hawes
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Fantagraphics' "X-Men Companion" volume two also had published some of those penciled page.
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