There’s a dimly-remembered story about the late Darwyn Cooke, the wonderful cartoonist responsible for DC’s “New Frontier” some years back, punching out a Marvel editor and getting blackballed from ever working there again. Does anybody remember the details? I can’t find anything online about it.
You couldn’t have looked very hard
NASO: One of the altercations that seems to get a lot of attention is an incident with current Marvel editor, Axel Alonso. After the Wizard feature on you came out, a letter from Marvel editor Nick Lowe appeared in a subsequent issue accusing you of attacking Axel without provocation at a convention and said you should be embarrassed by the incident. What exactly happened between you and Axel that led to the altercation?
COOKE: There are four other people involved in the situation that caused what happened there. I can’t go into it out of respect for them, and the fact that it would take another 40 pages to explain the entire sleazy situation. I will say this about it: You don’t pour a beer on a senior editor in the hotel bar of a show unless you feel he has done something incredibly despicable.<