Talk:Michael T. Gilbert

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There are a range of Wikipedia sources that can help you out. All articles must meet WP:V. To learn how to a proper citing style, consult WP:CITE. For what kind of external links are acceptable, WP:EL is a useful set of guidelines. Good luck! GBYork 18:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC) This user was found to be a sock of Mattisse[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

IMO, many of the edits on this article are too extreme. In particular, there is no reason to delete this comic book artist/writer's bibliography. Rather than suffer accusations of COI because this author appeared at an event I help organize over twenty-eight years ago, I hope some other editor will reinstate it (and perhaps review some of the other deleted material).Rosencomet (talk) 19:56, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced Story[edit]

The following story was inserted by User:76.66.132.110, who claims to have witnessed it. Having no other source, I am placing it here and using whatever parts I can source until he can support it somehow.:

A watershed moment of Gilbert's life came as a small child, when he found an obscure Canadian comic book, Triumph Comics #51 (April 1946). Growing up in the U.S. he still does not know how it came into his possession, but the comic contained a story called Doc Stearne, about a monster fighter, that captivated the young Gilbert. A fan of many American comics too, he grew up wanting to be a comic book artist, and began working in the medium in the 1970s, usually on humor or funny animal features he wrote and drew himself, for a variety of titles and publishers. Never being able to forget Doc Stearne, he later revamped the character in his own style and turned it into Mr. Monster in the 1980s, published by Eclipse Comics. The original Canadian publisher was long out of business and the character was public domain. The success of this character propelled Gilbert into more acclaim as a cartoonist and he was soon in demand for other publishers and at comic book conventions, where he had a small but loyal fan base.

Mr. Monster was published throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with graphic novel collections and special issues also devoted to reprints of American horror comics of the 1950s. Gilbert's artwork was wild and fanciful, with broad brushstrokes and layouts obviously influenced by Will Eisner's The Spirit. With his success at Eclipse Comics, he began reprinting public domain horror comic stories by his favorite artists in Mr. Monster Specials, with Gilbert's editorials in each one. He informed fans about the old comics, identifying artists and historical references, and became somewhat of a historian on the comic book medium. The series was later published by Dark Horse Comics. Researching the Canadian publishers of the 40s and 50s, he learned that the 1946 comic he had found with Doc Stearn was unknown to practically everyone, but he knew that the artist who created the character was called Fred Kelly. Finally in 2004, he was informed that Canadian cartoonists were to receive awards at a convention in Toronto, Ontario, and one of them was Fred Kelly. Gilbert drove himself to Canada for the first time to appear at this convention and meet his idol. The now 80 year old Kelly was wheeled in in a wheelchair and Gilbert walked up to him and shook his hand, and later presented him with a royalty check as a token of his esteem. Kelly died about a year later. Rosencomet (talk) 17:11, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Michael T. Gilbert/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I don't understand how this Wiki thing works, but I looked up Michael T. Gilbert because he drew the Flash Gordon page at http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fgordon/about.htm (2007-nov-03 0940 PDT). But his Wiki page does not mention that he drew Flash Gordon. (I read the Talk Guidelines page before writing this but didn't understand that page either. I think this page says that I'm supposed to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mytalk for a response.)

Last edited at 16:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 23:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)