Quesada -- The Big Cheese

Wizard of Utopia · Post by **Wizard of Utopia** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:56:38 am

I find it amusing that no matter how big Joe Q. gets, he always has Jim Shooter & Valiant to thank for his start. Hard to believe that someone as talented as Joe did his 1st published artwork in "Captain N"!!

justin · Post by **justin** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:31:13 am

I thought his first published work was in Marvels Sleepwalker like issue 12 or 18. I had no idea he had work published in early Valiant before VH1. Thats pretty cool!

~A

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:28:31 am

His art with Sword of Azreal (Batman) made him a hot commodity long before Valiant.

justin · Post by **justin** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:37:37 am

whetteon wrote:His art with Sword of Azreal (Batman) made him a hot commodity long before Valiant.

Yeah, but for some reason I think the Sleepwalker cover he did was before the Sword of Azreal. That SOA series was sooooo bad *SQUEE*!

~A

valiantdude · Post by **valiantdude** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:28:18 pm

whtteon..wrong again..Joes first work was as a colorist for Valiant in the Nintendo Days. Before DC before anyone else, He was told to go there to get a job by Continuity Comics' EIC Neal Adams. Eveyone knows this and it recently it was highlighted in Wizard. I think that Joe learned a lot from Valiant, and used a lot of what he learned to improve the the quality of Marvel when he took over. I especially think Valiant was in his mind when the whole Ultimate thing started because of its tight continuity. I also think it Joe was responsible for getting away from the cartoony-manga like artstyle that was Marvel comics in the late nineties. That had tobe a new low for marvel, they produced the ugliest comics ever from 97-99, pure garbage.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:41:50 pm

valiantdude wrote:That had tobe a new low for marvel, they produced the ugliest comics ever from 97-99, pure garbage.

Man, you got that right. Most of those comics were just plain sloppy ... big panels, crappy stories. Blech.

Wizard of Utopia · Post by **Wizard of Utopia** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:13:34 pm

True, Joe started out as a colorist, but his 1st published artwork was the pin-up above from Captain N #3, which came out in 1990. The pic is a "Must-Have" from the Quesada Checklist published in Wizard a couple of years ago.

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:43:30 pm

valiantdude wrote:whtteon..wrong again..Joes first work was as a colorist for Valiant in the Nintendo Days. Before DC before anyone else, He was told to go there to get a job by Continuity Comics' EIC Neal Adams. Eveyone knows this and it recently it was highlighted in Wizard. I think that Joe learned a lot from Valiant, and used a lot of what he learned to improve the the quality of Marvel when he took over. I especially think Valiant was in his mind when the whole Ultimate thing started because of its tight continuity. I also think it Joe was responsible for getting away from the cartoony-manga like artstyle that was Marvel comics in the late nineties. That had tobe a new low for marvel, they produced the ugliest comics ever from 97-99, pure garbage.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:21:32 pm

His art with Sword of Azreal (Batman) made him a hot commodity long before Valiant

I loved the take on this character when they first started with him, is Az still around?

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:29:29 pm

depluto wrote:
valiantdude wrote:That had tobe a new low for marvel, they produced the ugliest comics ever from 97-99, pure garbage.
Man, you got that right. Most of those comics were just plain sloppy ... big panels, crappy stories. Blech.

Busiek and Perez's AVENGERS was great (for me at least), though. I don't think I read many other Marvel Comics at that time, either.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:37:53 pm

His first 'real' work was the 1991-92 Ray mini-series written by Jack C. Harris, issues 1-6, covers and interiors. It's why I got interested in Joe Q, and still have 20+ copies of every issue. I just can't resist picking them up for 25 cents each.

valiantdude · Post by **valiantdude** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:37:58 pm

sorry whetton i hope my message didnt come off as rude ...you're cool!!!!

tssgery · Post by **tssgery** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:42:25 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:His first 'real' work was the 1991-92 Ray mini-series written by Jack C. Harris, issues 1-6, covers and interiors. It's why I got interested in Joe Q, and still have 20+ copies of every issue. I just can't resist picking them up for 25 cents each.

I agree. It's a great read and can usually be found very cheaply!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:34:09 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:Speaking with Joe Q recently, he most certainly holds a 'special place' in his heart for his time spent at Valiant saying he had a 'great time' working there.

I asked him how he got to be EIC of Marvel... he said that he 'just fell into it'. But he had a smile on his chubby face when talking about Valiant.

At first I thought you said 'he had a smile and and a chubby' and thought 'wow, the guy must REALLY have enjoyed his time at Valiant'.

qrnd · Post by **qrnd** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:32:41 am

Wizard of Utopia wrote: True, Joe started out as a colorist, but his 1st published artwork was the pin-up above from Captain N #3, which came out in 1990. The pic is a "Must-Have" from the Quesada Checklist published in Wizard a couple of years ago.

Everybodys got to start somewhere...

Heres a high quality scan of that:
http://www.qrnd.com/temp/jq1.jpg

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:46:47 am

uruchuu wrote:Heres a high quality scan of that:
http://www.qrnd.com/temp/jq1.jpg

And it even has a guy going through a window!

/Magnus

Wizard of Utopia · Post by **Wizard of Utopia** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:46:25 am

magnusr wrote:
uruchuu wrote:Heres a high quality scan of that:
http://www.qrnd.com/temp/jq1.jpg
And it even has a guy going through a window!

/Magnus

Good catch Magnus! And thanks, Uruchuu, for the great scan! (I have no scanner). I persoally like the King Kong pic, I am a big fan of the 1933 original & stop motion animation.

RyanMcLelland · Post by **RyanMcLelland** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:58:34 pm

Who is Joe Quesada?

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:28:19 pm

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:37:38 pm

ninjak 1
somethin else!
more sumthins!
more!
MORE!
MORE!!!
and last but not least
Bloodshot 0!

RyanMcLelland · Post by **RyanMcLelland** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:13:25 pm

So he's some sort of artist or something?

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:20:45 pm

No, the Joe Quesada is a new item on Taco Bell's 99-cent menu.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:23:07 pm

depluto wrote:No, the Joe Quesada is a new item on Taco Bell's 99-cent menu.

Dude....2 from 1000.

bamaphilosopher · Post by **bamaphilosopher** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:48:13 pm

He also penciled X-O Manowar #0.

He was a good artist with Valiant, then went on to now become Editor in Chief of Marvel.

Ironic: Valiant fired him from Ninjak for getting work in late. Now the people who fired him probably wish he'd give them a job.

Just shows you never know...

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:41:10 pm

Richmond West wrote:He also penciled X-O Manowar #0.

He was a good artist with Valiant, then went on to now become Editor in Chief of Marvel.

Ironic: Valiant fired him from Ninjak for getting work in late. Now the people who fired him probably wish he'd give them a job. Just shows you never know...

Straight from the mouth of Joe Q: "Valiant couldn't afford to pay me what they were paying me on Ninjak, and I didn't want to do anything else, so we just parted ways after issue 3.'

For whatever it's worth, he says he wasn't fired.