It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.
Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.
In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.