Joe Corallo Talks Doom Patrol #68 - Creator Owned Art

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Joe Corallo is an Eisner & GLAAD nominated, Ringo Award-winning comics editor and writer of She Said Destroy & Becstar and co-writer of Seeds of Eden & The Never-Ending Party. Corallo recently honored friend and legend, the late Rachel Pollack in DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack #1. In our latest Creator Owned Art, Corallo tells the story of getting a page and signature from Doom Patrol #68. Without further adieu:

One of the most important pieces of original comic art in my collection is page 1 from Doom Patrol #68. This is the second issue of Rachel Pollack’s run where Richard Case had departed from the title after joining Grant from the beginning of their run with Linda Medley, who started their run on layouts for pages 17-24 of issue 65, taking over as series penciler. This issue was inked by Graham Higgins and lettered by John Workman, who lettered both Grant and Rachel's Doom Patrol runs. I have both the penciled page and the inked page with the lettering pasted on. On the penciled page, Linda Medley refers to Doom Patrol as “Dump Ratroll” in the top left corner; which I do love by the way.

I had acquired this page years ago, and one day when I was meeting Rachel at Penn Station, I let her know I was going to bring the pages to have her sign them. I remember we ended up going to the lost and found as Rachel was trying to find her phone, but it ended up that her phone had slipped into one of her boots somehow while she was on the train heading to Penn. It was while we were waiting at the lost and found that I took the pages out for her to look at. She hadn’t seen this particular page in person beforehand and got a real kick out of it. The goings-on over the course of the page plays out as such a Rachel story too. I think it’s a great encapsulation of the sort of contributions that Rachel has made not just in comics, but in fiction, over the years and I’m lucky to have both this fantastic piece of art in my collection and a nice memory of Rachel to go with it."

Check out our previous conversation with Corallo, in which he details his friendship with Pollack.

… And here are our past Creator Owned Art pieces.