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Peter Martin
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Posted: 16 February 2019 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Once again, thanks for sharing! Everything is a bonus. Really happy that you have rediscovered so much creative juice and fingers crossed that all this storytelling goodness makes it into print.
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Nathan Greno
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Posted: 17 February 2019 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

JAHF! How FUN!!

Interesting to see how you’re approaching him these days. When you first drew him, he read more “muppet like” to me... he feels more real/believable in the drawing above (but he still feels like the same character). Nicely done! 

 

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John Byrne

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Posted: 17 February 2019 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

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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Posted: 17 February 2019 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Do any copies of your pencils exist from that era of X-Men, JB?
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John Byrne

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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 7:30am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

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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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 7:32am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

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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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 7:38am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

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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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 9:44am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Why would you? You just keep moving forward and making more!
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Scott Sackett
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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

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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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Thanks Steve and Scott. 
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Robbie Moubert
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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

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.


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Robbie Moubert
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Posted: 19 February 2019 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Found a larger image of the full-page of Jean.




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