Animal Rights Activist Mark Martin

Here are four images by Mark Martin published in Eclipse's BORN TO BE WILD back in 1991, a benefit book for PETA. Mark's recently repainted over those images and posted the results over on his blog (and on his Facebook page if you're on that).  So compare and contrast.  And go tell Mark that he really should let me post his classic "The Story of Beef" from CRITTERS...

Monday Morning Mayer 14

Most of Sheldon Mayer's published work in the 1970s was scripting various anthology stories, but he also drew a lot of Rudolph stories, most of them in various large tabloid format comics, and on the other side of the spectrum this digest release.

DC Profiles #13 - Paul Levitz [1977]

Then:

Now:
Paul Levitz steps away from DC President/Publisher job

Monday Morning Mayer 13

I always thought a full book of just Sheldon Mayer's one page stories for SUGAR&SPIKE would be neat. Well, I think any reprint of them would be neat, but that idea even moreso than most...