Talk:Walt Simonson

Signature
It'd be nice to see an image of the distinctive signature mentioned in the article. --Jabberwocky, ultranewb.

Do an enlargement of either or both image at the bottom--that is click on it, then click on it again, and scroll to the bottom. His dinosaur signature is on both. Also, just a friendly suggestion: sign your posts with four tilde characters in talk pages. Jplatt39 14:52, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Walt's is so distinctive that I added a picture of it...whether it stays in the infobox or moves into the main article depends on what the Comics project thinks about putting artists' signatures in the infoboxes in general. Afabbro 06:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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Bad time lines?
The wiki states that Simonson both wrote and inked The Mighty Thor for a period in the 1980s which ended with #367 (May 1986). I have here a copy of a The Mighty Thor #376 (Feb. 1987) which was done by Walt as well. Does anybody have the correct time frame for his work on this series? (Daystrom (talk) 07:03, 7 June 2010 (UTC))

Time line is CORRECT! Please re-read the paragraph. It states that Simonson stopped drawing the stories with #367 but continued to write the book until #382. Also, the book's title was "Thor". It didn't become "The Mighty Thor" until #413. The indicia (the tiny print usually on the bottom of the first page) is what the Overstreet Price Guide and other source use for the title of the book.

Mtminchi08 (talk) 18:12, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

The intro
I don't want to mess with the article much myself, but someone should take a look at the intro. Currently it has three sentences about StarSlammers and no mention of Thor, and that seems all out of balance. Perhaps something more along the lines of "For his college thesis, he created a comic book featuring his original characters the StarSlammers, who he would later produce new adventures of as a professional. He is known for such works as an influential run on Marvel's Thor and his collaborations with writer Archie Goodwin on Manhunter and the New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of the movie Alien." --Nat Gertler (talk) 15:39, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Ugh. I see what you mean. How did that happen? All that material on his education, which has mostly nothing to do with his notability, and which should be in an Early life section?? I wonder how that slipped past me over the past few years. Thanks for pointing it out, Nat. I've rewritten it. Nightscream (talk) 02:44, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Good job! Thanks for taking care of that. --Nat Gertler (talk) 02:47, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oooh, one small factual niggle: "Louise Simonson (née Jones)" isn't right, as "née" refers to the name you were born with, "Jones" was a prior married name. --Nat Gertler (talk) 05:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, got it. Nightscream (talk) 16:39, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Lead-y remarks from someone who has never heard of any of these people or works: --P64 (talk) 02:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) On the latter, why not say/write "Louise Simonson (previously Jones, née Alexander)" or "the former Louise Jones née Alexander". (Neither a spouse nor a co-author generally belongs in the lead but she may belong here.)
 * 2) Visiting for another purpose (see first edit summary), I improved the lead sentence (wh remains too long) and second sentence as a copy-editor, but incorporating a fact from target article Star Slammers.
 * 3) As copy-editor of the second paragraph I referred below to sections 5-6 and refs 35-38. They support Adams and McFarlane, not Adams and Hitch, nor does 'Hitch' otherwise appear on the page.
 * The current version, which has "née" for both names, is just wrong, as Jones was not her maiden name (which is what née is for), but just an earlier birth name. I have a COI (I know the Simonsons), but I'd argue for keeping just the Jones - it was the name that she established herself professionally under, so this allows the knowledgable reader to recognize which professional also makes up this comics power couple. The maiden name doesn't really convey information of import on the subject at hand. --Nat Gertler (talk) 03:47, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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