Forgot to mention the “Sienkiewicz Hospital” thing!
That’s a reference to Bill Sienkiewicz, incredible Marvel artist and apparently the guy who defined the look of Moon Knight back in the 70s; nice going!
BTW, search Bill Sienkiewicz’s art, it’s absolutely amazing
Oh, and for pronunciation; he worked in some key stories from New Mutants so Jay and Miles, from Jay and Miles X-plain the X-men, discussed him; for the longest time I thought his name was “Sin Cabbage”
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Carmen Sandiego’s first showed up 35 years ago today in WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? for the Apple II.
But she wasn’t yet wearing her iconic red outfit (she wore a black hat and fur coat), and she didn’t yet have her memorable circular logo.
Carmen’s crest went through more iterations than you probably realized. As part of my ongoing research on the history of the series, I’ve tried to assemble a definitive history of how the logo evolved, with as much historical information as I’ve been able to gather.
(Looking for a single-image non-slideshow version? Here you go.)
One day I was Google image searching for the Where On Earth logo and discovered the highest quality you can find is a blurry and washed out capture from the almost-VHS-quality DVD release.
Even the DVD packaging is actually blurry art with retypeset text. Somehow even the rights owners didn’t have a high quality copy of this amazing Bill Sienkiewicz illustrated logo.
So when I spotted an oversized magazine ad on EBay, I bought it just to get a good scan. This is now the highest quality version of this logo anywhere on the internet. Enjoy.
A couple years ago, I pursued this license; I was excited about the potential, the holders couldn’t understand why. CaptainJLS&I had fun brainstorming a comix-series bible. The idea: If we could make Starriors smart & cool – hey, HG, how about giving us a crack at the Robotech comix…?
It was an interesting learning experience. After some discussion, we both (re)realized that doing our own things is a much better use of our creative energies.
I owe it to Editor Greg Lockard the amazing chance to be a part of Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK. The ‘YELLOW’ edition is coming out with The Black Clade, the story I wrote, drew and colored. Among the many talented participants Fábio Moon, Gerard Way and the brilliant Bill Sienkiewicz are present.
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