Joltin’ Joe Sinnott – Page 2 – Prattling before the Pratfall

Pulse-Pounding ALL JOE Post!

Joe Sinnott felt his inking style meshed best with John Buscema’s drawings, and I agree with that. But it’s Joe’s work with Jack Kirby that will be best remembered. Here is a prime example.

Joe on Gene Colan was a surprisingly good pairing.

Gil Kane was his own best inker. Joe’s inking worked, but it wasn’t an ideal match-up.

Neal Adams and Joe were two masters of comic book art who admired each other’s work, but their styles weren’t complementary.

The cover art by Buscema for Silver Surfer #1 has Joe’s name written in pencil, but it was obviously inked by Frank Giacoia. Okay, so this post isn’t 100% Joe!

Maximum Jack and Joe

From 1967, in the final months of 12″x18″ original art, before the reduction to 10″x15″, this is one of Jack Kirby’s most impressive splash pages.

Frank Giacoia’s name had been penciled in as inker, but the assignment went to Joe.

Frank inked the Iron Man story in that issue, over Gene Colan’s pencils.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

I’m planning to see Oppenheimer this week. Saturday night’s 3-hour Christopher Nolan movie was Interstellar.

The MoCA Wi-Fi extender worked very well for movie night on the patio, and equally well for using a tablet on the deck Sunday morning. On the screen is a 1952 Atlas war comic story illustrated by Joe Sinnott.

More Fan Chat

Denro and I were at the Albany Comic Con today. We were flipping through a portfolio of Spider-Man comic strip original art belonging to our pal, Joe Sinnott’s son Mark, who told us the run of syndicated reprints is coming to an end. On my phone I opened the Washington Post app and brought up today’s reprint.

At that moment Denro landed on a piece of original art and said, “Hey, I think this is it!” Indeed it was.

Most of the originals in the portfolio were autographed by Stan Lee, but not this one, because Stan had passed away the previous November. Losing Stan knocked the wind out of Joe’s sails, and King Features deciding to let the Spider-Man strip die with Stan didn’t help, leading to Joe having some assistance when completing the final batch of strips.

DC 94 yr. GIANT, Joe Giella

Joe Giella, June 27, 1928 – March 21, 2023. Photo from Joe’s Facebook page.

What Joe Sinnott was to Marvel, his friend Joe Giella was to DC. Joe passed away yesterday at age 94.

Batman newspaper comic strip panel by Joe Giella

Joe Sinnott visiting with Joe Giella. Photo courtesy of Mark Sinnott.

Mark Evanier has this remembrance.

Joe Giella, R.I.P.

Catholic Comics

Joe Sinnott had something more in common with Georges “Hergé” Remi, the Belgian creator of Tin Tin, than both of them being cartoonists. They had their work published by the Catholic Church.

In 2014-15, my friend Jim Tournas, aka Jimmy T., ran a Kickstarter campaign to reprint Joe’s illustrated life of Pope John XXIII, scanned from Joe’s original art. The biography had originally been published as a series in the Catholic Church’s line of Treasure Chest comics.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jetta/the-story-of-pope-john-xxiii-illustrated-by-joe-si

On that Kickstarter page you can see there was a pledge level of $1500. Did anybody fund the project for that amount? Yeah, I did. In this video Joe is holding a paperback proof of the book. Being Joe’s friend meant so much to me that I keep my proof copy at my beside. The final hardcover printing is much larger.

Publication of the book received notice in The Catholic Register.

https://www.catholicregister.org/features/arts/item/19870-comic-book-reissue-of-st-john-xxiii-s-life-improves-on-the-original

A couple of months ago, The Knights of Columbus featured Joe in this piece about comics and the Church.

https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/columbia/2022/december/the-knights-behind-a-comic-book-revival.html