Biography
Early life and career
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, from Sicily#Demographics, Sicilian parents who emigrated from Pozzallo, Province of Ragusa, Ragusa, John Buscema showed an interest in drawing at an early age, copying comic strips such as ''Popeye''. In his teens, he developed an interest in both superhero comic books and such adventure fiction, adventure comic strips as Hal Foster's ''Tarzan (comics), Tarzan'' and ''Prince Valiant'', Burne Hogarth's ''Tarzan'', Alex Raymond's ''Flash Gordon'', and Milton Caniff's ''Terry and the Pirates (comic strip), Terry and the Pirates''. He showed an interest in commercial illustration of the period, by such artists as N. C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Dean Cornwell, Coby Whitmore, Albert Dorne, and Robert Fawcett. Buscema graduated from Manhattan's The High School of Music & Art, High School of Music and Art. He took night lessons at Pratt Institute as well as life drawing classes at the Brooklyn Museum. While training as a boxing, boxer, he began painting portraits of boxers and sold some cartoons to ''Hobo News#Second newspaper, The Hobo News''. Seeking work as a commercial illustrator while doing various odd jobs, Buscema found himself instead entering the comic book field in 1948, landing a staff job under Editing, editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee at Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel Comics. The Timely "bullpen", as the staff was called, included such fellow staffers as established veterans Syd Shores, Carl Burgos, Mike Sekowsky, George Klein (comics), George Klein, and Marty Nodell. Fellow newcomer Gene Colan, hired roughly two months earlier,Jim Steranko, Steranko, Jim, in Spurlock, p. 5 recalled that "... John never seemed very happy in comics ... there always seemed to be something else he really wanted to do." His first recorded credit is penciling the four-page story "Till Crime Do You Part" in Timely's ''Lawbreakers Always Lose'' #3 (Aug. 1948). He contributed to the "real-life" dramatic series ''True Adventures'' and ''Man Comics'' (the premiere issue of which sported one of Buscema's earliest recorded comic book covers), as well as to ''Cowboy Romances'', ''Two-Gun Western'' (for which he drew at least one story of the continuing character the Apache Kid (comics), Apache Kid), ''Lorna the Jungle Queen'', and ''Strange Tales''.Buscema/sort/chrono/ Archived1950s
Buscema married in 1953. He continued to freelance for Timely, by now known as Atlas Comics (1950s), Atlas Comics, as well as for the publishers Ace Comics, Hillman Periodicals, Our Publications/Orbit, Quality Comics, St. John Publications, and Ziff-Davis. Buscema's mid-1950s work includes Dell Comics' ''Roy Rogers Comics'' #74–91 (Feb. 1954 – July 1955) and subsequent ''Roy Rogers and Trigger'' #92–97 and #104–108 (Aug. 1955 – Jan. 1956 & Aug.–Dec. 1956); and the Charlton Comics series ''Ramar of the Jungle'' and ''Nature Boy'' — the latter, Buscema's first superhero work, with a character created by himself and Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. Buscema next produced a series of Western comics, Western, war comics, war, and sword and sandal film adaptations for Dell's ''Four Color'' series. Buscema recalled, "I did a bunch of their movie books ... that was a lot of fun. I worked from stills on those, except for ''The Vikings''. ... I think one of the best books I ever did was ''Sinbad the Sailor''." He drew at least one issue of the radio, film, and TV character the Cisco Kid for Dell in 1957, as well as one- to eight-page biographies of List of Presidents of the United States, every U.S. president through Dwight Eisenhower for that company's one-shot (comics), one-shot ''Life Stories of American Presidents''. During a late 1950s downturn in the comics industry, Buscema drew occasional Mystery fiction, mystery, fantasy, and science-fiction stories for Atlas Comics' ''Tales to Astonish'', ''Tales of Suspense'', and ''Strange Worlds (Atlas Comics), Strange Worlds'', and American Comics Group's ''Adventures into the Unknown'', and ''Forbidden Worlds'' before leaving comics to do freelance commercial art.Steranko, p. 6 He began a freelance position for the New York City advertising firm the Chaite Agency, which employed such commercial artists as Bob Peak and Frank McCarthy (artist), Frank McCarthy.1960s
Buscema spent approximately eight years in the commercial-art field, freelancing for the Chaite Agency and the studio Triad, doing a variety of assignments: layouts, storyboards, illustrations, paperback book covers, etc. in a variety of media. Buscema called this time "quite a learning period for me in my own development of techniques". He returned to comic books in 1966 as a regular freelance penciller for Marvel Comics, debuting over Jack Kirby layouts on the "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." story in ''Strange Tales'' #150 (Nov. 1966), followed by three "Hulk" stories in ''Tales to Astonish'' #85–87 (Nov. 1966 – Jan. 1967). He then settled in as regular penciller of ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers'', which would become one of his signature series, with #41 (June 1967). ''Avengers'' #49–50, featuring Hercules and inked by Buscema, are two of his "best-looking [issues] of that period", said comics historian and one-time Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas, who wrote those issues. Thomas and Buscema introduced new versions of the Black Knight (Dane Whitman), Black Knight and the Vision (Marvel Comics), Vision during their collaboration on ''The Avengers''. In order to adapt to the Marvel Comics style of superhero adventure, Buscema "synthesized the essence of [Jack] Kirby's supercharged action figures, harrowing perspectives, monolithic structures, mega-force explosions, and mythological planetscapes into a formula that he instantly integrated into his own superbly crafted vision," wrote comics artist and historian Jim Steranko. "The process brought Buscema's art to life in a way that it had never been before. Anatomically balanced figures of Herculean proportions stalked, stormed, sprawled, and savaged their way across Marvel's universe like none had previously". Buscema would pencil an average of two comics a month in collaboration with such inkers as George Klein (comics), George Klein, Frank Giacoia, Dan Adkins, Joe Sinnott, his younger brother Sal Buscema, Tom Palmer (comics), Tom Palmer, and, occasionally, Marvel Production manager (publishing), production manager and sometime inker-cartoonist John Verpoorten. John Buscema named Frank Giacoia, Sal Buscema, and Tom Palmer as his favorite inkers. Among Buscema's works during this period fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books are ''The Avengers'' #41–62 (June 1967 – March 1969) and ''The Avengers Annual'' #2 (Sept. 1968); the first eight issues of ''The Sub-Mariner'' (May–Dec. 1968); ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #72–73, 76–81, 84–85 (ranging from June 1969 – June 1970 providing layouts finished by either John Romita Sr. or Jim Mooney), and two issues he himself finished over Romita layouts. Buscema drew the first appearance of the Prowler (Marvel Comics), Prowler in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #78 (Nov. 1969). In August 1968, Buscema and Stan Lee launched a new title, ''The Silver Surfer (comic book), Silver Surfer''. That series about a philosophical alien roaming the world trying to understand both the divinity and the savagery of humanity was a personal favorite of Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, who scripted. Buscema penciled 17 of its 18 issues — the first seven as a 25¢ "giant-size" title at a time when comics typically cost 12¢. "Beautifully drawn by John Buscema, this comic book represented an attempt to upgrade the medium with a serious character of whom Lee had grown very fond," assessed comics historian Les Daniels. Roy Thomas said Buscema considered ''Silver Surfer'' #4 (Feb. 1969), featuring a battle between the Silver Surfer and Thor, "as the highpoint of his Marvel work". Characters Buscema co-created in ''The Silver Surfer'' include the long-running arch-demon Mephisto (comics), Mephisto in issue #3 (Dec. 1968). Toward the end of the decade, Buscema drew some fill-in issues of superhero series and returned to familiar 1950s genres with a spate of supernatural mystery stories in ''Chamber of Darkness'' and ''Tower of Shadows'', and romance tales in ''My Love'' and ''Our Love''. He then returned to his signature series ''The Avengers'' for 11 issues inked by Tom Palmer.1970s
The creative team of Roy Thomas and John Buscema introduced new characters such as Arkon in ''The Avengers'' #75 (April 1970), Red Wolf (comics), Red Wolf in #80 (Sept. 1970), and the Squadron Supreme in #85 (Feb. 1971). With Jack Kirby's departure from Marvel in 1970, Buscema succeeded him on both of Kirby's titles: ''Fantastic Four'' (penciling issues #107–141, following John Romita Sr.) and ''Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor'' (#182–259). He additionally launched the feature "Black Widow (Natalia Romanova), Black Widow" in ''Amazing Adventures'' vol. 2, #1 (Aug. 1970). Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, who collaborated with Buscema on many stories up to this time, wrote, Buscema began penciling ''Conan the Barbarian (comics), Conan the Barbarian'' with #25 (April 1973) following Barry Windsor-Smith, Barry Smith's celebrated run, and debuted as the Conan artist of the black-and-white comics-magazine omnibus ''Savage Sword of Conan'' with issue #1 (Aug. 1974). He would eventually contribute to more than 100 issues of each title, giving him one of the most prolific runs for an artist on a single character. He additionally drew the ''Conan'' Sunday and daily print syndication, syndicated newspaper comic strip upon its premiere in 1978, and even contributed some storyboard illustrations for the 1982 Conan movie, as well as painting four covers for the Conan magazines. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Buscema's work on ''Conan the Barbarian'' seventh on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". For about ten years, he would produce an average three to four books' worth of pencils a month, such as ''Nova (Richard Rider), Nova'' (1976) and ''Carol Danvers, Ms. Marvel'' (1977). In addition to his regular assignments he would pencil covers and fill-in issues of titles including ''Captain America (comic book), Captain America'', ''Captain Britain'' (Marvel UK), ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), Daredevil'', ''Frankenstein's monster, The Frankenstein Monster'', ''Howard the Duck'', ''Master of Kung Fu (comics), Master of Kung Fu'', ''Red Sonja'' and ''Adam Warlock, Warlock''. He also drew a story for the science-fiction anthology ''Worlds Unknown''. Buscema contributed as well to Marvel's black-and-white comics magazines, including the features "Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder), Ka-Zar" in ''Savage Tales'' #1 (May 1971) and "Ulysses Bloodstone, Bloodstone" in ''Rampaging Hulk'' #1 (Jan. 1977), and ''Doc Savage'' #1 and 3 (Aug. 1975, Jan. 1976). Other magazine work ran the gamut from horror fiction, horror (''Dracula Lives!'', ''Monsters Unleashed'', ''Zombie (Marvel Comics), Tales of the Zombie'') to humor (''Crazy'', ''Pizzaz''). Buscema left the ''Thor'' title for a time to launch the Marvel version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Tarzan in 1977. Other licensed projects include a 72-page ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'' movie adaptation in an oversized "Marvel Treasury Edition, Treasury Edition" format with DeZuniga inking. For Peter Pan Records, Power Records, which produced children's book-and-record sets, Buscema drew ''Star Trek'' and Conan the Barbarian comics. He contributed some superhero drawings for ''Pro'', the NFL official magazine (1970), and penciled some chapters of the first issue of ''Marvel Comics Super Special'' featuring the rock group Kiss (band), Kiss (1977). In 1978, small-press publisher Sal Quartuccio released ''The Art of John Buscema'', a retrospective that included an interview, previously unpublished sketches and drawings, and a cover that was also sold as a poster. Buscema capped off the decade penciling writer Doug Moench's three-issue Weirdworld epic-fantasy tale "Warriors of the Shadow Realm" in ''Marvel Super Special'' #11–13 (June-Oct. 1979). Pacific Comics released an accompanying portfolio of six signed, colored plates from the story.Teaching
In the mid-1970s, Buscema ran the John Buscema Art School, which advertised for students in the pages of many Marvel titles. Stan Lee made appearances as a guest lecturer at Buscema's school, and some of the school's graduates (including Bob Hall (comics), Bob Hall and Bruce Patterson (comics), Bruce Patterson) went on to become professional cartoonists. Buscema later said that teaching the class was "very gratifying" but that having to make the 60-mile drive after a day's work was too exhausting, and ultimately forced him to give it up. Buscema then collaborated with Lee on the book ''How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way'' (Marvel Fireside Books, 1978), a primer on comic book art and storytelling based on the comic art classes Buscema had given a few years prior, and has remained in print for over 25 years, in its 33rd printing as of 2007.1980s
After drawing the first issue of ''The Savage She-Hulk'' (Feb. 1980), Buscema abandoned regular superhero work in order to spearhead art duties on all three Conan (Marvel Comics), Conan titles. The popularity of the character spurred the release of a Conan the Barbarian (1982 film), Conan movie in 1982; Buscema provided pencils and inks for a 48-page movie adaptation. He continued to tackle other high-profile projects such as a Silver Surfer story for ''Epic Illustrated'' #1 (Spring 1980), a King Arthur story in ''Marvel Preview'' #22 (Summer 1980), the St. Francis of Assisi biography ''Francis, Brother of the Universe'' (1980), the second ''Superman and Spider-Man'' team-up (1981), and an adaptation of the 1981 movie ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. He left ''King Conan'' in 1982 after nine issues, although he remained with Marvel's Robert E. Howard franchise with a revival of the ''Kull of Atlantis, Kull'' series for 10 issues, and left ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' in 1984 with #101 with a series of stories that he plotted himself. After pencilling the ''Conan the Destroyer'' movie adaptation in 1984 and the ''Conan of the Isles'' graphic novel in 1987, he left ''Conan the Barbarian'' with #190 in 1987, ending a 14-year association with the character. After nearly five years away from superheroes, except for the first two issues of the X-Men-related, four-issue miniseries ''Magik'' (Dec. 1983 – March 1984), Buscema returned to familiar ground as regular penciller on ''The Avengers'' from #255–300 (May 1985 – Feb. 1989). He was regular penciller on ''Fantastic Four'' for its 300th issue, during a 15-issue stint from #296–309 (Nov. 1986 – Dec. 1987). Additionally, he fit in the three-issue film adaptation ''Labyrinth (1986 film), Labyrinth'' (Nov. 1986 – Jan. 1987) and the four-issue miniseries ''Mephisto (comics), Mephisto'' (April–July 1987), starring a character he created with Stan Lee in ''The Silver Surfer''. Buscema reteamed with Lee on the Silver Surfer himself with the 1988 graphic novel ''Silver Surfer: Judgment Day'', self-inked and done entirely as full-page panels. That year he and inker Klaus Janson drew a Wolverine (character), Wolverine solo feature in the biweekly anthology ''Marvel Comics Presents'', followed by self-inked Wolverine series in that title. He pencilled the first 14 issues (Nov. 1988 – mid-Nov. 1989) of the first Wolverine ongoing series, self-inked on #7-8. Bill Sienkiewicz, who inked the last five issues of that run, recalled Buscema's pencil work as "the sturdiest foundation an inker or an embellisher could possibly hope to build on, and their beauty was not in their attention to fastidiously rendered minutiae, but instead were marvels of deceptive simplicity. Each page an example of grace, elegance and power."Later career
Buscema began his sixth decade in the field by joining Roy Thomas for a return to ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' with #191 (Nov. 1991) for a 20-issue run. ''Conan the Rogue'', a graphic novel Buscema plotted, pencilled, inked, and colored over a period of five years in his spare time appeared that same year. He both penciled and inked the graphic novel ''Wolverine: Bloody Choices'' (Nov. 1993). Buscema returned to crime fiction with ''The Punisher War Zone (1992 series), The Punisher War Zone'' #23–30 (Jan.–Aug. 1994, self-inking #26–29), that title's 1993 annual publications, summer annual, and the 1994 graphic novel ''A Man Named Frank'', a Multiverse (Marvel Comics), parallel-universe Punisher Western comics, Western tale. He pencilled the Punisher portions of 1994's ''Archie Meets the Punisher'' team-up. No longer attached to a regular series after his ''Punisher'' run, he penciled and inked ''The Avengers Annual'' #23 (1994) and five more black-and-white Conan adventures, serving as that Marvel franchise's final artist on ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' with #235 (July 1995) and on the short-lived spin-off ''Conan the Savage'' with #10 (May 1996). Through 1999, he penciled a variety of superhero comics; both penciled and inked a black-and-white short story for ''Shadows and Light'' (1998); and made a final return to Conan with the ''Death Covered in Gold'' three-issue miniseries (1999). Buscema worked with DC Comics for the first time in 2000, initially doing both pencils and inks on a "Batman Black and White" short story in ''Batman: Gotham Knights'' #7 (Sept. 2000). He reunited with Stan Lee on the 2001 one-shot ''Just Imagine..., Just Imagine Stan Lee and John Buscema Creating Superman''. He finished the pencils on 2003's ''Superman: Blood of my Ancestors'', begun by Gil Kane, who had since died, and had just signed on for a five-issue miniseries with Roy Thomas, ''JLA: Barbarians'', though he died after finishing the first issue. An 11 x 17-inch lithograph print of the late 1960s/early 1970s Avengers, penciled by Buscema and painted in watercolor by Alex Ross for the publisher Dynamic Forces, was Buscema's last professional work. Reprinted in Buscema's passion for drawing was such that he continued to draw and sketch in his spare time, often on the back of comic book art pages, and these images form a considerable body of work in their own right. His brother Sal Buscema recalled,Personal life
Buscema, who lived in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island, at the time of his death, was married to Dolores Buscema, with whom he had a son, John Jr., and a daughter, Dianne. His granddaughter Stephanie Buscema is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, who started out as an inker for her grandfather.Cancer and death
Buscema was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and died on January 10, 2002, at the age of 74. He was cremated with an artist's pen in his hand.Awards
*1968: Alley Award for Best Full-Length Story, for Marvel Comics' ''The Silver Surfer'' #1: "Origin of the Silver Surfer", by Stan Lee and John Buscema (tied with DC Comics' ''The Brave and the Bold'' #79: "Track of the Hook", by Bob Haney and Neal Adams): also Best New Strip for ''The Silver Surfer''. *1969: Alley Award for Best Full-Length Story for ''The Silver Surfer'' #5: "... And Who Shall Mourn for Him?", by Stan Lee, John Buscema, and Sal Buscema. *1974: Shazam Award for Best Penciller (Dramatic Division). *1977: Eagle Award (comics), Eagle Award for Favourite Single Comicbook Story for ''Howard the Duck'' #3: "Four Feathers of Death", with Steve Gerber. *1978: Inkpot Award *1997: "Author that We Loved" award at the Spanish Haxtur Awards. *2002: Inducted into the List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, Eisner Award Hall of Fame. In 2002, Spain’s Haxtur Awards inaugurated the Haxtur Award#Special John Buscema Award, Special John Buscema Award.Bibliography
DC Comics
*''Batman Gotham Knights'' (Batman Black and White) #7 (2000) *''Just Imagine..., Just Imagine Stan Lee with John Buscema Creating Superman'', one-shot, (2001) *''Superman: Blood of My Ancestors'', one-shot, (with Gil Kane) (2003, posthumous)Dell Comics
*''Four Color'' #684: Helen of Troy (film), Helen of Troy (1956), #762: The Sharkfighters; #775: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, Sir Lancelot and Brian, #794: The Count of Monte Cristo (1954 film), The Count of Monte Cristo, #910: The Vikings (film), The Vikings, #927: Luke Short's Top Gun (adapted from novel ''Test Pit'' by Luke Short), #944: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, #1006: Hercules (1958 film), Hercules, #1077, 1130: The Deputy (TV series), The Deputy, #1139: Spartacus (film), Spartacus (1956–1960)Marvel Comics
*''All-True Crime Cases'' #32 (1949) *''Amazing Adventures'' #1–2 (Black Widow (Natalia Romanova), Black Widow) (1970) *''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #72–73, 76–81 (layouts only); #84–85 (1969–1970) *''Amazing Spider-Man 1999'' #1 (1999) *''Archie Meets the Punisher'' #1 (with Stan Goldberg) (1994) *''Astonishing Tales'' #9, 12 (Ka-Zar) (1971–1972) *''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers'' #41–44, 46–47, 49–62, 74–77, 79–85, 94, 97, 105, 121, 124–125, 152–153, 255–279, 281–300, ''Annual'' #2 (backup story), 23 (1967–1989), #385 (with Mike Deodato) (1995) *''Bizarre Adventures'' #27, 29–30 (1981–1982) *''Captain America (comic book), Captain America'' #115, 217 (1969–1978) *''Captain Britain'' #24–30 (Marvel UK) (1977) *''Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), Captain Marvel'' #18 (with Gil Kane) (1969) *''Chamber of Darkness'' #1, 3 (1969–1970) *''Conan the Barbarian (comics), Conan the Barbarian'' #25–36, 38–39, 41–56, 58–63, 65–68, 70–78, 84–86, 88–91, 93–126, 136, 140–144, 146–153, 155–159, 161–163, 165–179, 181–185, 187–190; 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#85–87 (Hulk) (1959–1967) *''Tarzan in comics, Tarzan'' #1–18, ''Annual'' #1 (1977–1978) *''Tex Morgan'' #4–7 (1949) *''Thor (Marvel Comics), Thor'' #178, 182–213, 215–226, 231–238, 241–253, 256–259, 272–278, 283–285, ''Annual'' #5, 8, 13 (1970–1985); #490 (1995) *''Thor'' vol. 2 #9 (1999) *''The Tomb of Dracula'' vol. 2 #4–5 (1980) *''Creatures on the Loose, Tower of Shadows'' #1–2 (1969) *''True Adventures'' #3 (1950) *''True Life Tales'' #1 (1949) *''True Secrets'' #3 (1950) *''Two Gun Western'' #5 (1950) *Western Outlaws and Sheriffs'' #60, 62 (1949–1950) *''Western Winners'' #5 (1949) *''What If (comics), What If'' #13 (Conan); 15 (Nova) (1979) *''Wild Western'' #7–8 (1949) *''Wolverine (comic book), Wolverine'' #1–8, 10–16, 25, 27 (1988–1990) *''Wolverine: Bloody Choices'' SC (1991) *''Worlds Unknown'' #4 (1973) *''Young Men'' #4–5 (1950)Simon & Schuster
*''How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way'', with Stan Lee, teaching book, Marvel Fireside Books, 1978,Notes
References
Further reading
* ''Comic Book Artist'' #21 (Aug. 2002): "Remembering John Buscema: A CBA Tribute", pp. 3B-39B * ''Big John Buscema'', Palma de Mallorca: Ajuntament de Palma, 2009.External links
* * , Samcci.comics.org: Silver Age Cover Gallery, Retrieved on 2008-11-26; original site unresponsive 2008-12-02; from the Internet Archive * *Audio/video