SDCC: Don McGregor Spotlight


Don McGregor Spotlight (52:20, 119mb)
The panel started with Don getting an inkpot award from Eddie Ibrahim, Director of Programming at Comic-Con International. Don was then interviewed by Ed Catto about why Don and his work has connected with people over the years, they spoke about a photo of him jumping while on the Swiss Alps, Don revealed how he had to learn the hard way about the unwritten rules of working in comics, they spoke about Black Panther and how he had to work around the editors at the time, he spoke about the various artists he worked with including Rich Buckler, Billy Graham and P. Craig Russell. He spoke of writing the first interracial kiss in comics and how he got Marvel executives and Stan Lee to agree to it when they initially had objections, he spoke about telling Jim Warren a story in one his magazines sucked on a panel and how that lead to meeting Billy Graham, Lady Rawhide and how his daughter was very involved in it’s creation, The Spider with Gene Colan being reprinted with unpublished art, Billy Graham’s creation to the Panther’s Rage story, Sabre and how it started with Dean Mullaney and the decision to bring in gay characters.

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