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Dick Rockwell On Being The 36 Year Ghost Of The Great Milton Caniff - In His Last Interview

"The Drawing Board Is My Sanctuary"
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We were contacted by Alter Ego Editor Roy Thomas a few months ago, to provide some scans of Steve Canyon strips...but these weren't the work of Milton Caniff, they were pencilled and inked by Dick Rockwell following Milton's untimely death. Norman Rockwell's nephew Dick worked for Milton from 1952 through 1988, and though a true unsung hero, he passed away in 2006. Harry and I have thought that Rockwell never got the recognition he deserved, and we were delighted to hear that Roy was publishing an interview that Jim Amash conducted with Dick in 2004.

Roy Thomas at The TwoMorrows booth at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con

For those of you interested in the Caniff/Canyon world, this extensive 15 page interview is choc-a-block with reproductions of the work he did with Milton (including the very last Steve Canyon daily continuity strip)! For everyone else there are scans of his extensive comicbook work, including pages for Timely, DC, Marvel, Biro, Fawcett, Hillman, Quality and others...a lot of neat stuff. You can order the 100 page magazine from their site (for $9.00 plus postage), or you can pay $2.95 and download a PDF file of the issue. Either way, there's a lot of great stuff packed in there (and not just Dick).

John Ellis
Hollywood, CA

Air Force Times/Steve Canyon Anniversary

Cartoonist kept loyal Air Force following with straight-laced adventures of fictional flyboy

Pages of history:

"Steve Canyon" kept a loyal Air Force following with the straight-laced adventures of a fictional flyboy. Check out historic strips, video and a special 60th birthday celebration

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The Air Force Times (in cooperation with The Milton Caniff Estate, Caniff Biographer Robert C. Harvey, and artist/writer Russ Maheras) have put up a splendid page on their website devoted to Steve Canyon's 60th Anniversary. A special newly created Steve Canyon full color comic-strip, created by Maheras, is being featured online as well as in the September 24th edition of their weekly newspaper.

Fans of our site and the Steve Canyon TV series will find streaming clips from four different episodes (three previously unreleased on our site) including an extended clip from the much requested OPERATION INTERCEPT. You will also find several scans of classic Steve Canyon strips, comments from Milton's nephew Harry Guyton, and R.C. Harvey, and MORE! Head on over there and check it out!

John Ellis
Hollywood, CA

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Biography: Milton Caniff and Norman Rockwell in Coronet

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Biography: Milton Caniff and Norman Rockwell in Coronet

We (The Milton Caniff Estate) recently loaned the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive copies of two issues of Coronet magazine from 1942 and 1947 to digitize. Read these fascinating articles about Milton Caniff's challenges in creating and drawing these strips...plus scans of great artwork and more! Thanks to ASIFA-Hollywood and Steve Worth for sharing this content on their website.

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Return to Base!

Well, the delays in posting anew on our blog have been unavoidable, but we are back and rarin' to go! Expect more in the next few days, including "The Star Trek/Steve Canyon Connection"(???), more episode preview clips/stills, and a few suprises.

By the way, in case some of you haven't noticed, over there on the right are two relatively new items. Obviously we've added a permanent link to our online store. The other thing is our STEVE CANYON OFFICIAL EPISODE GUIDE in the Links Section. Although I am still working on this, it is still the most accurate guide to the series there is anywhere. I have been updating the Steve Canyon listing on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) regularly for some time, but it is still a ways from completion. When done it'll be a great way to cross reference the actors etc.

Check back in here in the next few days to find out What Steve and Dr. McCoy have in common!