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August 6, 2015: Our Exclusive Interview with John Romita Jr. about "Superman"

On Wednesday, August 5 at Bryant Park in New York City, New York, celebrated comic artist John Romita, Jr. attended the graphic novel launch of SUPERMAN: THE MEN OF TOMORROW, collecting the acclaimed run of Romita, Jr. and best-selling writer Geoff Johns on the monthly SUPERMAN comic series.

Superman Homepage reporter T.A. Ewart was granted a few minutes with John for an exclusive one-on-on video interview about his work on "Superman".

Superman #45 Meanwhile, Newsarama also attended the event in New York and asked John their own questions. Here's an excerpt from that interview...

    Let's talk about your visual approach. How did your ideas about drawing the character evolve since you've been on the book?

    Romita: Oh boy, that's a good question, and it was such a long, agonizing process.

    The very first promotional sketch I ever did was so bad. I had changed the face a little bit - it wasn't good enough - and interestingly enough, that first poor image got onto the internet. And I got such hate mail over that that I couldn't even get a chance to explain, that was just the very first thing I ever did! Calm down! I made a mistake!

    And then I did another version, and Dan DiDio said, "Straighten his nose out! Not every character's an Italian, Romita! Give him a straight nose - this is Superman!"

    So it was growing pains with the character. And I laugh now in retrospect. But yeah, I had to adjust a little and learn that the character had to look a certain way, but without copying anybody.

    The adjustment period was just that. It wasn't drastic. I had a couple of bad sketches when I first did it, and then I got better as I got going.

    Now I feel more comfortable. I'm getting used to it, and I'm actually having fun with it. The shape of the face... his nose is a little bit less perfect, because he got his clock cleaned by Ulysses.

    I'm really enjoying the character much more.

Read the rest of that interview at the Newsarama website.



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