A Book Commemorating the Life and Times of Ross Andru & Mike Esposito Nears Completion Twomorrows Publishing has indefinitely suspended their plans to publish a book commemorating the life and times of one of the more memorable creator teams in comics history, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Daniel Best of Adelaide Comics and Books recently made the announcement at his website and provided more news about this compelling work in progress, now at near completion.
Mike Esposito and Daniel Best are looking into other options for publishing the book and promise to publish it independently, if needed, in order to meet the March 2006 release date.
MR Publications' comic book debut, Mister Universe. 1951, Andru/Esposito.
Partners for Life, a fully authorized biography of the Andru/Esposito team is written and compiled by Mike Esposito and Daniel Best and covers six decades of teamwork - one of the longest careers of any such creator team in the industry, even more than the Simon & Kirby legacy. Andru & Esposito became the forefathers of creator self-publishing when they split from DC and Timely to found MR Publications three years before Simon & Kirby's Mainline venture. They were instrumental in the creation of characters and teams such as The Metal Men, Sgt Rock, The Punisher and others, while also adorning virtually all the major icons in the world of comics: Superman, Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Spider-man, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Namor, X-Men, Captain America and more.
The book also features much rarely seen and previously unpublished art and includes contributions by John Romita, Sal Buscema, Marty Thall, Marv Wolfman, Nick Cuti, Dave Hunt, Tony Isabella, Jerry Bingham, Mike Netzer, Bob McLeod, Alex Saviuk, Len Wein, Josef Rubenstein, Don Perlin, Dick Ayers, Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Mark Evanier, Jim Mooney, Stan Goldberg, Jim Salicrup and many more - along with posthumous contributions from Ross Andru himself, Bob Kangiher, Don Heck and Gil Kane.
Partners for Life promises to be a very unique and cherished production commemorating one of the more loved teams in comics history. Here's wishing Mike Esposito and Daniel Best, the very best of good fortune in their efforts to bring this work to publication.
