Herb Trimpe is still alive

[MartinRedmond]

He was at the Montreal Comicon last sunday. I didn't talk to him cause I'm not a fan so I didn't want to take time away from true fans. He seems good and well, his wife was there and they look like people that are happy look like!!11!1

[berk]

One of my favourite artists as a kid. Loved his style, especially when he had the right inker (Marie Severin or himself). Too bad he never branched out more from his long run on the Hulk.

[benday-dot]

I thought (perhaps wrongly) that Herb quit comics after becoming disillusioned with the business, if not the art form. Did he not become a school teacher, and expressing immense satisfaction for the change at that?

[Paradox]

He probably would have expressed immense satisfaction as a garbage man after the way he was treated by Marvel (here, draw like Rob Leifeld...no, never mind, here's your pink slip by Fed Ex).

[Roquefort Raider]

I thought (perhaps wrongly) that Herb quit comics after becoming disillusioned with the business, if not the art form. Did he not become a school teacher, and expressing immense satisfaction for the change at that?
He did; there was an article on him in Comic Book Artist a few years ago.

I was very happy for him, because he enthralled the kid I once was with his great rendition of the Hulk. Herb's Hulk will always be the real one for me. I hope his students will appreciate the luck they have to be taught by one the classic comic-book artists of the 70s.

Way to go, teach!

[Captain Jim]

I thought (perhaps wrongly) that Herb quit comics after becoming disillusioned with the business...

Well, that's one way of putting it. He quit when they wouldn't give him work anymore and was he forced to change careers.

[MartinRedmond]

I find it odd cause Erik Larsen's praised him a lot. Why isn't Larsen hiring him with his gazillions of dollars??? The Image guys should be forced to hire classic artists before the fat lady sings you know.

[berk]

I find it odd cause Erik Larsen's praised him a lot. Why isn't Larsen hiring him with his gazillions of dollars??? The Image guys should be forced to hire classic artists before the fat lady sings you know.I might actually buy one of their comics if Trimpe was drawing it.

[Agent_Torpor]

I just dug out my "Transformers meets GI Joe" issue #1 from 1987 because of this Trimpe-tastic thread.

Now, i'll quickly put it back - Trimpe aside, this thing is horrible...

[benday-dot]

He did; there was an article on him in Comic Book Artist a few years ago.

I was very happy for him, because he enthralled the kid I once was with his great rendition of the Hulk. Herb's Hulk will always be the real one for me. I hope his students will appreciate the luck they have to be taught by one the classic comic-book artists of the 70s.

Way to go, teach!

Yes. Herb Trimpe= definitive Hulk for me for sure.

[Red Oak Kid]

Yep, when I think of the Hulk, I think of Trimpe's version.

[MWGallaher]

I just dug out my "Transformers meets GI Joe" issue #1 from 1987 because of this Trimpe-tastic thread.


But it does remind us: Herb Trimpe was the first artist on one of the two biggest successes Marvel had in the 80's: G. I. Joe. And did some work on the other biggest success, Transformers. Yeah, maybe those would have sold no matter who'd drawn them--we'll never know--but Herb delivered one of the hottest comics of its day. That should be remembered.

[Alex Dragon]

I find it odd cause Erik Larsen's praised him a lot. Why isn't Larsen hiring him with his gazillions of dollars??? The Image guys should be forced to hire classic artists before the fat lady sings you know.

It would probably be a nice think for Erik to do but most of today's fans just aren't big on Herb's style. It would be a cool think if all of the "older" artists from years ago could keep getting work but unfortunately, most of the artists from years ago don't have a style that goes over well today and most of them don't seem able to update it for today's audience.

And of course there will be those who post and say Herb and those "older" artists were better and the current stuff isn't as good but it really doesn't have much to do with "better" or more talented, it's all about what sells.

[rick]

What amazes me is that they fired him right around the same time he was creating those incredible airfighter stories in the 80's version of Amazing Adventures.

[Joe S. Walker]

He was also (and perhaps still is) an official chaplain at Ground Zero after 9/11.