Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I need to say thanks to the incredibly nice Doyle Dodd, who sent me a scan of a Chris Sprouse Supreme commission he picked up on eBay. I’ve wanted to get it turned into an inked commission for years now. I tried both Al Gordon (Sprouse’s inker on Supreme) and Karl Story (Sprouse’s preferred inker) and didn’t get very far with either one.
So I decided to approach Norm Rapmund. Rapmund inked a lot of other artists on Supreme and does a lot of work for DC and elsewhere. He’s also very approachable on Twitter. He graciously agreed to ink it for me.
I also asked (bugged) him a bunch of questions about his time with Awesome:
“I remember working on Supreme being a blur. Lol”
He said he didn’t read the Moore scripts for Supreme: “Heck... I don't even read the scripts now. Lol.
The in-house inkers of Extreme was like a well oiled machine. Me, Danny, Jon, and Marlo would pump out as much work as possible.”
He got into inking really young: “I was 22/23 going on 18. Even though Rob is only 5 months older than me, he was so much more mature than I was in leaps and bounds. I still hung around with high school kids. Lol”
He was an Orange County kid, so that’s how he latched on at Awesome.
He didn’t really appreciate the Moore run at the time he was working on it: “I knew working on Alan Moores Supreme was important, but it wasn't till years later for me to appreciate what it really meant to be working on his stories.”
He didn’t want to leave Awesome, but had no choice: “I didn't. I was the last to go when Awesome Entertainment was shutdown but I still had one foot in DC working on Aquaman.”
He said that he was surprised by the layoff: “It was horrible. No one saw it coming and at the time Awesome was doing so well. Rob being the great guy he is, paid me everything I was owed from Awesome. He didn't have to do that, but he did. Then Rob paved the way for me to get into Marvel on Wolverine. That was fun!”
