Toronto Comicon 2024 (March 15 – 17)
Larry F. Houston Spotlight
Interviewing Larry was Victor Dandridge. Larry spoke about his career in animation with a lot of focus on the 1992 X-Men cartoon. In particular he revealed when he started to create art/stories, his Mount Rushmore of Inspirations, his favorite animated movies, going to art school, breaking glass ceilings in the world of animation, how he storyboards a script, thinking about how a shot will be animated, his first big project, his script writing, Working on Pryde of the X-Men pilot cartoon and how that affected the 1992 X-Men series, his involvement in the writing, how he was able to sneak in cameos of other Marvel characters into the cartoons. He went into detail about the 1992 X-Men cartoon intro in terms of how it tells a story and how he had to design some of the character logos as Marvel hadn’t created any, his friends Will Meugnist and Rick Hobergg, the X-Men voice actors, how Margaret Loesch was super important to getting comic book cartoons, including the X-Men, on the air even at the risk of her job, getting to work on Marvel Comic Book covers, getting appreciation from fans at conventions and the now X-Men 97 show that picks up 6 months after the 1992 X-Men show ends.
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