It looks like Andrei Koribanics (former Hasbro artist) will be doing a longer interview. Either here with me or on a podcast. More to follow later.
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Exclusive Conversation with a Hasbro Artist from the original ARAH Line!!!!
I was able to have a short conversation with Andrei Koribanics, he was an artist for Hasbro and he did quite a bit of pre-production artwork for the GI Joe line. He worked on Joe from 1983-1985 and did a number of pencil concept sketches as well as full-blown illustrations (in oil on board) for characters that had “passed the first round” of approvals. He was also behind many of the motorized backpacks. And his work was for internal review.
from Andrei: “It WAS more than half my life ago, but I remember it well… it was a lot of fun and I loved the assignments… all done through Fed-Ex and phone calls. That was well before PCs and scanners, and I didn’t own a photocopier, so it was difficult to record what I had executed. Add to that the tight deadlines and there wasn’t much time to record anything. I think I may have some slides about, but I’ll probably never find them! :-)”
Sadly, Hasbro kept all of his work “in-house” so he does not have any mementos of his days with Hasbro. However, there are a few pieces floating around in the wild. While not a major interview or big time news, it is a little nugget of Joe history.
GI Joe Kre-o
It was just announced that gi joe will be coming out as Kre-o. I’m disappointed that it isn’t Lego and is a knock off. Despite that I’ll definitely look into it.
Comics
So I have also started to dive into the comics. I bought the entire GI Joe Cobra series with chuckles, that leads to CC’s death.
I have not read any IDW comics poor to this so when I get them in and read them, I’ll post a review. Even though by this point it is old news community wide- its new to me. Haha
Bought My Domain Name!
Well I went and made this a ‘real’ website and bought the domain. Do not know what will come of this but it was definitely worth it, even for my personal enjoyment. I’ll slowly be adding things. Defintely more to come on the collection I purchased.
Giant Collection Continued
So I promised pictures and here are the first few. I am utterly speechless at the size and condition of this collection. It’s overwhelming.
Leaky Suit Brigade 