I Can't Believe I Didn't Know This

[Red Oak Kid]

After 30+ years of being in comic book fandom, I just learned that Gary Friedrich and Mike Friedrich are not related.

Duh.

And I learned it from reading an old Bullpen Bulletins page.

However I also learned that Herb Trimpe's brother Mike was helping him ink some Ant-Man stories. Whatever happened to Mike Trimpe?

[Kan-Man]

After 30+ years of being in comic book fandom, I just learned that Gary Friedrich and Mike Friedrich are not related.

Duh.

And I learned it from reading an old Bullpen Bulletins page.

However I also learned that Herb Trimpe's brother Mike was helping him ink some Ant-Man stories. Whatever happened to Mike Trimpe?

I had a similar experience recently with the actors Harold Gould and Elliott Gould, who I was conviced were father and son. I still haven't definitively discovered that they're not - but I haven't found any confirmation that they are either, so I'm pretty sure I was mistaken.

[Rob Allen]

For too many years, I thought Bob Kane and Gil Kane were brothers.

[Paradox]

Kan-Man can check that easy:

I had a similar experience recently with the actors Harold Gould and Elliott Gould, who I was conviced were father and son. I still haven't definitively discovered that they're not - but I haven't found any confirmation that they are either, so I'm pretty sure I was mistaken.

Harold would have been 15 when Eliot was born. And neither of their real names are Gould. Oddly, both are named Goldstein. Eliot's dad was Bernard Goldstein. Harold's sons are Josua and Lowell.

[Red Oak Kid]

For too many years, I thought Bob Kane and Gil Kane were brothers.

Thanks. I don't feel so bad now.:wink:

[dan bailey]

Jim Lee & Pat Lee are Stan Lee's sons ...

... aren't they?

[Kan-Man]

Jim Lee & Pat Lee are Stan Lee's sons ...

... aren't they?


Yes - they're married to Peggy Lee and Michele Lee.

[Roquefort Raider]

However I also learned that Herb Trimpe's brother Mike was helping him ink some Ant-Man stories. Whatever happened to Mike Trimpe?

Like Larry Lieber, Mike doesn't have the same last name as his brother. "Mike Trimpe" is actually Mike Esposito.










All right, I made that up.

[Sir Tim Drake]

For too many years, I thought Bob Kane and Gil Kane were brothers.

Which is obviously not the case, since Gil's last name was originally Katz.

[adam_warlock_2099]

After 30+ years of being in comic book fandom, I just learned that Gary Friedrich and Mike Friedrich are not related.

Duh.

And I learned it from reading an old Bullpen Bulletins page.

However I also learned that Herb Trimpe's brother Mike was helping him ink some Ant-Man stories. Whatever happened to Mike Trimpe?

I just rediscovered how much I liked herb Trimpe's art re-reading some old Tales To Astonish last night.

[Senormac]

How about Dennis Weaver and Sigourney Weaver......??? Father / Daughter????

[Kan-Man]

How about Dennis Weaver and Sigourney Weaver......??? Father / Daughter????

Now, that one I know - Sigourney's dad was television pioneer Pat Weaver.

[Scott Shaw!]

Here's one of my favorite bits of cartoonist relative-related trivia:

Sergio Aragonés' father was one of the producers of the 1956 Mexican/American dinosaur-vs.-vaqueros production, THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN; as a young man, Sergio even visited the set of this film, which was based on a story by Willis (KING KONG) O'Brien!

Years later, Sergio would make a full-size King Kong head out of wood, chicken wire and synthetic fur; he had it mounted outside of MAD publisher Bill Gaines' office window as a birthday present to Bill!

Aloha,

Scott!

[benday-dot]

Here's one of my favorite bits of cartoonist relative-related trivia:

Sergio Aragonés' father was one of the producers of the 1956 Mexican/American dinosaur-vs.-vaqueros production, THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN; as a young man, Sergio even visited the set of this film, which was based on a story by Willis (KING KONG) O'Brien!

Years later, Sergio would make a full-size King Kong head out of wood, chicken wire and synthetic fur; he had it mounted outside of MAD publisher Bill Gaines' office window as a birthday present to Bill!

Aloha,

Scott!

Wasn't it Aragones who donned a rented gorilla suit, and proceeded to dive into a swimming pool so disguised during a performance at some aquatic show way back when? The humorous fiasco was nicely related in Streetwise IIRC.

[adam_warlock_2099]

How about Dennis Weaver and Sigourney Weaver......??? Father / Daughter????

8-) She's purdy.

[Rob Allen]

For too many years, I thought Bob Kane and Gil Kane were brothers.

Which is obviously not the case, since Gil's last name was originally Katz.

And Bob's last name was Kahn.

[Kirk G]

And Bob's last name was Kahn.

In my best Captain Kirk voice....

"KKKKKKAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN!!!!"


Plus, I think somebody better explain the Larry Lieber reference...
nobody's going to get the connection to Stan Lee without it...:rolleyes:

[Paradox]

Stan Lee? You mean that nice Stanley Leiber from over on West 98th St? Good boy, but a little excitable. :biggrin:

[Lone Ranger]

The humorous fiasco was nicely related in Streetwise IIRC.

Didn't that book also have a funny story about John and Sal Buscema's 25th Wedding Anniversary surprise party?

[Cei-U!]

Didn't that book also have a funny story about John and Sal Buscema's 25th Wedding Anniversary surprise party?

Wait, John and Sal Buscema were married?!? I thought they were brothers!!! :eek:

Cei-U!
Now that's what I call a surprise party!

[dan bailey]

"Our Pal Sal" apprently means something different than I'd always assumed ... Maybe it was supposed to be "Our Gal Sal"?

[Roquefort Raider]

"Our Pal Sal" apprently means something different than I'd always assumed ... Maybe it was supposed to be "Our Gal Sal"?

In all seriousness, I once read an article that stated Sal Buscema was John's sister. It was from Europe, but still... I lived under that misapprehension for many years and was quite surprised to finally learn that Sal was no Sally.

[benday-dot]

Didn't that book also have a funny story about John and Sal Buscema's 25th Wedding Anniversary surprise party?

I'd have to dig it out, but I don't recall that one LR... but I am intrigued! It did have a great Roy Thomas/John Severin illustrated piece. And other faves from that trade, besides Kirby's StreetCode, were the Barry Windsor Smith work. And the Sam Glanzman hippy piece, as well as Toth's musings and Brent Anderson's reminiscences.

[dan bailey]

I don't recall anything by either Buscema in Streetwise. Offhand, my favorite pieces therein were the reminiscences by a couple of nonsuperstars, Sal Amendola & ... whichever Kupperberg (Paul? Alan?) contributed.

[Sir Tim Drake]

I don't recall anything by either Buscema in Streetwise. Offhand, my favorite pieces therein were the reminiscences by a couple of nonsuperstars, Sal Amendola & ... whichever Kupperberg (Paul? Alan?) contributed.

It seems like Sal Amendola had the potential to be a superstar, though.

[MWGallaher]

It seems like Sal Amendola had the potential to be a superstar, though.

If it hadn't been for the "glass ceiling". :wink:

Jewish and Italian names--of which there are so many in the comics business world--surely baffled many like me who grew up in less ethnically-diverse regions.

[T GUy]

Jewish and Italian names--of which there are so many in the comics business world--surely baffled many like me who grew up in less ethnically-diverse regions.

Then there's Bill Gaines' penchant for employing the Welsh.

T Guy

Obviously that falls flat if one is aware that 'Davis' is the English version of the name and 'Davies' the Welsh...

[Paradox]

I'm more used to Welsh names that look like someone spilled alphabet soup. :tongue:

[Lone Ranger]

I'd have to dig it out, but I don't recall that one LR...

Ummm....

http://www.goenglish.com/PullingYourLeg.asp


Yeeeshh....

Some of you guys would probably believe it if I told you that I attended Andy and Adam Kubert's wedding ceremony up here in Toronto.

[dan bailey]

Some of you guys would probably believe it if I told you that I attended Andy and Adam Kubert's wedding ceremony up here in Toronto.

Things must be going rockily for the (un?)happy couple, given how scandalously they've been busting deadlines at DC the last little while. Their father(-in-law) must be appalled.

[benday-dot]

Yeeeshh....

Some of you guys would probably believe it if I told you that I attended Andy and Adam Kubert's wedding ceremony up here in Toronto.

You got me real good there. Speaking of brothers...


Obviously that falls flat if one is aware that 'Davis' is the English version of the name and 'Davies' the Welsh...

It's interesting that Ray Davies, he of the Kinks, and brother to the nominally challenged Dave Davies, who was born in North London actually pronounces his "Welsh" name Davies the English way, ie. Davis.

[Sir Tim Drake]

On a slightly related note, "Al Williamson" and "Al McWilliams" are basically the same name, right? Don't they both mean "Al, son of William"?

[Rob Allen]

From www.ancestry.com/learn/facts:

McWilliams Name Meaning and History
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uilleim, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of William, with the redundant addition of English patronymic -s. In many cases it represents a partial Gaelicization of Welsh Williams.

Williamson Name Meaning and History
Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from William.

[Kirk G]

"Our Pal Sal" apprently means something different than I'd always assumed ... Maybe it was supposed to be "Our Gal Sal"?

And to think that it all started just because of a mis-print in a comic book.

Now, does anyone want to tackle the debate about why DC allows "guttering candles" but never EVER "flickering light" in their mystery/horror books?:biggrin:

[Paradox]

I think Clint Flicker could give you the answer. :biggrin:

[dan bailey]

Y'know, down here in my & MWGallaher's stomping grounds, the fact that John & Marie Severin are siblings wouldn't have any bearing whatsoever on a scenario whereby they were also married ...




I summon the post by the forum regular (& no, I don't mean Mr Gallaher* ...) whose father's Alabama-born parents were first cousins


*Who, if memory serves, is orginally from around Memphis, which makes him practically a damnyankee anyway in comparison to those of us from extreme southwest Arkansas ...