Norm Breyfogle

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Some of the first comics I ever bought were Batman books drawn by Norm Breyfogle. To me, he'll always be the Batman artist.

The Great Curve has an interview with Breyfogle: (http://www.thegreatcurve.net/2005/04/sitting-down-with-norm-breyfogle.html)

I'd be happy to draw either of those characters - or any others - again for DC Comics, but I've apparently been put on some kind of secret shit list at my old professional home. I don't understand it. Maybe because my page rate is too high -- and when I offered to reduce it so that I could compete in the market with younger and cheaper talent, Mike Carlin told me I couldn't do that; so much for the "free market,"eh? -- or because of institutionalized ageism, or because I'm not part of the good old boy's club. Whatever it is, they don't seem to want to give me the time of day there now.

What a sad waste.

You might also want to take a look at NormBreyfogle.com (http://www.normbreyfogle.com/index.asp)

-Augie

[Alex Segura Jr.]

I agree. I really loved his work. A shame, really.

[torippu]

It seems that Augie and I may have started reading comics around the same time. I started reading Batman around the time of the first Tim Burton movie and I think that Jim Aparo and Norm Breyfogle were the main artists on the Bat books at the time. Aparo and Breyfogle will always be the definitive Batman artists for me. It's a shame that Norm is having trouble getting work at either of the big 2.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

I started a couple of years after that, Trip, but my first Batman comics were Breyfogle's DETECTIVE stuff. That's always been the definitive Batman look to me. I'd love to see more of it. Breyfogle's ink line lends itself very well to darker comics. Doesn't work so well on brightly colored spandex stuff, sadly.

-Augie

[GeorgeG]

I'd love to know what the actual reason he's not getting work from DC is. Does his page rates cost too much or did he piss someone off?

[BronteJD]

Breyfogle and Aparo were also some of the first Batman artists I became familiar with - just seeing the pictures with the interview is filling me with this huge sense of nostagia...

[chucksatterlee]

Norm is back in business full time. He is the regular penciler/inker on a new title coming out from Speakeasy Comics & Relative Comics Studios. The title is called OF BITTER SOULS and I am the creator /writer. If you want to ask him about DC, just e-mail him from his site. www.normbreyfogle.com. He is pretty open about it. Here is a cover from the first issue of OBS as well as the second cover.

http://img178.echo.cx/img178/6695/cover4pg.jpg

http://img87.echo.cx/img87/6036/obs02cvrcolors8bm.jpg
You can also check out more about OF BITTER SOULS at www.relativecomics.com