Blackhawks Aviation and Jack Follows

I had an early love of flying from reading comics featuring the Blackhawks and Enemy Ace. I always enjoyed the additional pages that provided technical information about the planes. I never became a pilot, but I still enjoy comics about air and space adventures. There was an cachet artist named Jack Follows, whose cachet I also enjoyed. I thought about creating a series of comic aviation cachets using the style that Jack Follows used. The above cachet features the Grumman (mis-spelled on the cachet) F5F-1 Skyrocket used by DC Comics' Blackhawks from 1941-1949. The cachet is based on the Jack Follows cachet below, right down to the plane being shot down in the background

Jack Follows (1927-1997) was an English cachet artist, who provided hand drawn cachets, which became very popular with collectors. Follows was known for his cartoon like cachets which combined the themes of women, aviation and comic characters. An article was published in the hobby publication First Days March 2009 pigs 57-58.

When his drawing hit the market, they are usually considerable priced and prized

a few internet finds of Jack Follows cachets

Howard Chaykin - Blackhawk

2017.08.19 TerrifiCon, Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Ct

Howard Chaykin, started his career as an assistant to Gil Kane. By 1970 he began publishing his own art under the pseudonym Eric Pave. He would move on to working with Wally Wood and Neal Adams. It was Adams who introduced Chaykin to the editors at DC Comics, who gave him single page fillers.

Chaykin's first major work for Dc was a 23-page story in Sword and Sorcery #1 with writer Denny O'Neil. After working on several titles, He would pencil stories for Marvel featuring his own creation Dominic fortune, as well as Cody Starbuck for the independent Star Reach comic anthology comic.

1976 Chaykin landed the job of penciling Roy Thomas' adaptation of Marvel Comics Star Wars. He would also pencil and/or write stories for Micronauts, American Flagg, The Shadow, Black Kiss, Twilight (with artist Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez), Cyberella, American Century, Blackhawk, Challengers of the Unknown, Phantom Eagle and many other titles...

Chaykin was one of the writers for the 1990 television series The Flash, and the 2001 first season of Mutant X

Inkpot Award 1977