With "Alien," we had likeness rights, but the good part was they didn't need likeness approvals. I had done one of these for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" for Marvel Comics, and Marvel did not have the likeness rights so I wasn't drawing Richard Dreyfuss and the rest of them. One of them was that "Heavy Metal" had access to the actors' likenesses - that's something you don't always get in movie adaptations. We were doing all this stuff before the film came out.ĭid you have access to production stills? You must have had something, because the art and design is strikingly similar to what ended up on the big screen. We had to get the book done a few weeks in advance so that there would be time to print the book, photograph it and distribute it, so it would be in stores at the same time the movie came out. We had a drop-dead deadline in April because the film came out in May of '79. The book was released at the same time as the movie. Had the movie already come out at that point? John knew Archie's work and thought it was a good idea. Then I suggested Archie Goodwin as a possible scripter for the book. We talked about it some, and by the time we finished talking, I was gonna pencil and ink it. His original idea was to have Carmine Infantino pencil it and I would ink it. Walt Simonson: John Workman from "Heavy Metal" called to see if I wanted to work on it.
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