"What Kirby Wanted", foreword to "Savage Dragon Companion" #1 (Image Comics, July 2002), p. 5.</ref>

In 1982, during a panel discussion at the Dallas Fantasy Fair, Byrne made disparaging comments about longtime comics writer and one-time Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas that were published in "The Comics Journal" #75 (Sept. 1982), Thomas threatened a libel suit if Byrne did not apologize.