GEORGE KHOURY: What kind of comics
of pictures. And it wasn’t until many
were you into growing up in California?
years later that I got interested in comic
THOMAS YEATES: I was into drawing pic-
books. I was aware of comic books and
tures based on movies that I saw on TV: Davy
had a few. But I wasn’t—I liked
Crockett, Zorro, monster movies and Tarzan, I
Tomahawk and Turok, Son of Stone
got inspired by that subject matter and histori-
when I was young. We had a few
cal adventure. I just liked to draw those kinds
Archies because they were funny. A few
THOMAS YEATES Flash Gordon is a favorite character of mine. I get to draw him every once in a while on covers for Comics Revue. It’s great to try and combine the elegant art styles of Alex Raymond and Williamson with wonderful lowbrow pulp elements. I still can’t figure out how Flash got his pilot’s license, he crashes almost every
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rocket ship he flies.
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