To further complicate things, the Eclipse series was highlighted more by the contributions of Alan Moore, Dave Stevens, Bill Loebs...and pretty far down the list, me. Exactly what MTG did--aside from function as a wise old editor in the Will Eisner mold--and make some really arbitrary alterations here and there that, in my view, did not improve the work. But then, I don't entirely recall how we worked--whether it was from a script, layouts, or what.
I do recall Eclipse editor Cat Yronwode intervening at one point--she was angry at me because MTG hadn't kept her apprised of who he was collaborating with. In particular, she didn't care for how I inked the babe's hair on the cover to #6--she thought I had used a pen, when in fact I had used a brush. The whole assignment was really strange. The same went for #10, in which I was called upon to draw the 3D segments--again, with arbitrary alterations made by MTG after the fact. I guess he felt the need to change a few heads and figures to maintain consistency with his readers, but I thought his patches were sloppy and hardly an improvement. Oh, well. It was his book; I had my own thing to worry about.
The main thing is that fans enjoyed the end result, and nearly every convention I appear at, at least one or two fans bring Mr. Monster #6 and #10 up to me to autograph, and I'm proud to have been a part of it. I've also done Mr. Monster commissions--don't tell MTG--for art collectors. And what would comics be without convoluted character histories and production processes that make mincemeat of the auteur theory? Enjoy!
