Phil Zimelman

I forgot to mention someone in the last post that contributed a lot to the look of Diebold. All the covers to the comic were colored by Phil Zimelman, who was a colorist working for Marvel and DC at the time. He did a great job on the covers. Phil did a lot of work with Mike Zeck on his Punisher covers for Marvel at the time. I'm not sure what Phil is up to today, I haven't talked to him in years. Does anyone know if he's still working in comics today?

Diebold

Diebold #1 was published in 1994. It was written by me with artwork by Brian Clifton (who did the picture in the logo for this blog.) The front cover was by Sam Kieth and the back cover was by Mike Zeck. On the second printing (yes, we did a second printing of the comic) we flipped the covers and Mike's cover became the front one and Sam went to the back. We self published the comic under the name Silent Partners. We did two issues of the comic and than kind of imploded. We received some good reviews and had decent sales for a black and white comic book at the end of the boom. I'll talk more about this comic in other posts. We financed the comic in a fairly unusual way. More in other posts.