jasonlatour – Be careful what you ask for…

Jason Latour (or LaTour…hard to tell when it’s all written together in lowercase) has posted a 14-page letter that artist Alex Toth wrote to Steve Rude in 1986. Steve apparently asked Toth to give him feedback about his pencils for an issue of Comico’s Jonny Quest. I don’t know whether Steve asked Toth to be brutal, but Alex is. Very.

I am sure some of you will find it very funny, as Alex Toth is devastating in almost every panel. “FAKE!” is the most frequent comment. (I wish Alex would elucidate as to why something is fake or what Rude could have done better.)

For me, this was just plain informative. I learned a lot from the critiques, like the importance of not having your title character as a tiny figure facing away in the first panel.