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More articles about these old-school Archie artists, please…

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Seconded.

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We luvs us some Archie!

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this archie obsession is creeping me out….

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Thirded. Before reading these articles, all I knew about Archie was that he’s been around for a while and that he doesn’t age properly, so it’s fascinating to find out all these things the company probably doesn’t want you to think about.

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Mary Warner said on September 10th, 2009 at 4:13 am

I had heard Lucey’s name before (I can’t remember where), but I had no idea what stories he’d drawn. I haven’t seen any of these before, but as soon as I clicked on the first one, I recognised that style. I used to see his stuff a lot in the old digests.
You said in a story in a recent digest that the art was changed to get rid of his bow tie. Do they actually do that nowadays? That is horrible! Back when I read a lot of digests in the late 70s-early 80s, they never changed anything to update styles as far as I could tell. It was one of the great things about the digests; seeing how things had changed over the years. (And the really old ones always had Archie in the bow tie.)
Your talk about the exagerated emotions and body language made me think of Al Hartley. That’s how I was always able to recognise his work (I mean his regular Archie stuff, not the later Christian books, although that had the exagerated emotion, too.) But the two styles are still a lot different.

So who was the artist that used to draw Reggie with wavy hair? I heard once long ago, but I’ve forgotten his name. His style was really different from the others in the 70s.

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You said in a story in a recent digest that the art was changed to get rid of his bow tie. Do they actually do that nowadays? That is horrible!

No, it wasn’t changed to get rid of his bow tie, and I was sort of pleasantly surprised. They really do re-draw stories now to get rid of things they consider dated or offensive (like pipes).

So who was the artist that used to draw Reggie with wavy hair?

That was Lucey too, I think. Starting in the ’70s he began drawing Reggie with that new hairstyle.

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Interesting post.

“And he doesn’t really have a clear hook to identify him”, I’m not sure about that. When I was a young reader dreaming of becoming a cartoonist in the 70’s and 80’s I could spot a Lucey story at a glance. In my opinion he was the best. He had such a fluid style that I would drool over. Unlike my other favourite Archie artist Samm Schwartz, who’s style was so completely his own compared to the other house artists.

Yes, I hate the redrawing, not so much for the reasons but for the terrible artists they get to do the art. I saw one in a digest that I remembered reading in the original format as a kid. It was one where Mr. Lodge can’t attend a father/Daughter dance and Veronica gets Archie to be made up to look like her Father. The ending of the original had the real Mr. Lodge spanking Veronica. The digest version had a panel showing Mr. Lodge just holding Veronica by the shoulders. The drawing, compared to De Carlo’s, was horrible.

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