Giordano

In my hungover state today, I watched the Chargers beat the Rams and read a few issues of Silver Comics, a new anthology series heavily influenced by, as you might imagine, Silver Age comics and their creators, with some Golden Age in there as well. I think they're pretty darn good, and will review them shortly, but this struck me as a very misleading bio on their website of Dick Giordano:

"Dick Giordano is mainly known for his work on 'Sarge Steel', 'Green Lantern', 'Green Arrow', 'Catwoman' and 'Modesty Blaise'. Giordano majored in illustration and advertising art at the High School of Industrial Art in New York and went to work at Jerry Iger 's studio, starting out inking backgrounds. After nine months at Iger, Giordano went freelance. Soon afterwards, he went to work for Charlton Comics, where he did space adventures, westerns, hot rods, romances, but mostly crime comics. In 1955 he became a staff artist at Charlton in order to maintain his job. A couple of years later he began freelancing again, doing work for both Dell and Charlton. In the years that followed, Giordano worked as an inker and/or penciller for a variety of publishers including DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dell, American Comics, Valiant, Treasure Chest and Junior Life. At DC, Giordano worked on several 'Batman' spin-off series and the The L.A.W. mini-series. Giordano has acted as Editor-In-Chief for Charlton Comics, during which he oversaw the creation of their most memorable characters including such classics as 'The Blue Beetle' and 'Captain Atom'. Dick Giordano has also been responsible for launching two successful ad-art companies, namely the legendary Continuity Associates (with partner Neal Adams ) and Dick-Art, Inc. Dick Giordano has illustrated a cover for Silver Comics."

There's a personal side to this bio that suggests to me that Giordano wrote it himself, and so I find it interesting that he, or whoever wrote it, feels that Giordano is not known "mainly" for BATMAN, or for being President of DC Comics for many years. I'd hardly call inking Adams on BATMAN working on a Batman "spin-off series," though technically I guess it's a 65-year-old spin-off of DETECTIVE COMICS. It does reenforce my opinion, though, that the work an artist is most famous for is very often not their own personal favorite work. I mean, only the people involved with The L.A.W. would mention it again. Odd that he wouldn't then mention Future Comics, but maybe it was a sour experience for him. Dick-Art, Inc. is a great name--wonder why that's not still around :)