William Stout Spotlight (50:26, 115mb)
William went through his mostly comics career starting with doing water colour portraits at Disneyland when Scott Shaw! Recognized his work from something else he did and invited him to come to the first San Diego comic con. William then talked about his fanzine work, working for Russ Manning, CYCLEtoons, working for Harvey Kurtzman, an illustrated Beach Boys biography, why he got into lettering an examples of some that he did, working for Byron Preiss, working for Mattel, turning down a job where they wanted him to draw like Jack Kirby and directing them to hire Jack instead which Jack was very grateful for, movie posters including Wizards and American Graffiti, working for George Lucas, drawing a Harlan Ellison story for Heavy Metal, working with Ron Cobb on Conan the Barbarian storyboards, EC work for the Comics Journal, bootleg Album covers, a story about the Philippine-American War, Two Fisted Tales, The Land Before Time (how they ripped him off and then hired him), Ray Bradbury Comics, his time in Antarctica with scientists, Comic Con Program covers, a 3D comic book for LA Schools, working with Steven Spielberg, ad he did that appeared in comics, an Alien Worlds cover and how it lead to working on a movie, The Hollywood Reporter, working with Moebius and other comic artists and his new 3 volume book that collects all of this work.
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