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montage of images from the home made star wars movie comic adaptation graphic novel of 1977—1982 (?) made by a kid in Ireland.
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Read the ‘other’ Star Wars Adaptation!

by on September 10, 2018 at 9:00 am
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Read them from the very start»

‘Star Wars age 9 comic’ has finished updating—for now. I made and published 4 childhood SW comics:

  1. 1977’s ‘Star Wars‘ adaptation (this is the most enjoyable one)
  2. ‘Disco Force‘ a truly terrible short comic based on a dream I had in 1978 or ’79!
  3. ‘The Empire Strikes‘ (my incomplete and nutty imagining of what the sequel would be)
  4. ‘The Empire Strikes Back‘ (my incomplete and more grown-up movie adaptation)

So what is the first adaptation?

It’s a nearly 200 page multiple-style, multiple-pass comic adaptation or graphic novel—before that term even existed—of the first Star Wars movie. I started it in early 1978, not long after I’d seen Star Wars in late December 1977, and I worked on it, and revised it on and off into the 80s. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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As Seen on TV!

by on August 25, 2019 at 1:15 pm
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As Seen on TV

RTE TV’s ‘TwoTube’ show (2 min). I was interviewed for national TV in 2015 about being an illustrator and comic maker, and much of it touched on my Star Wars comic; the impact that the film had on me in 1977 when I was 9; and the impact that the re-discovery my childhood comics had on me—as an adult.

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DubGather’s video of ‘The Empire Strikes’ comic!

by on August 21, 2019 at 5:34 pm
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I got a wonderful surprise today: Some talented folks over at ‘DubGathers‘ have made one of my childhood Star Wars comics into a very funny ‘motion comic video!

The Empire Strikes – Comic Fandub from Quirderph on Vimeo.

It’s my really terrible, and mercifully incomplete ‘Empire Strikes!’ one, in which at the age of 10 or 11, I tried to imagine what the sequel would be like.

One of the reasons why their video works so well—apart from the talented voice artists—is that they’re reciting the nonsense that I ‘wrote’ as a kid, and that the story is completely aimless and made-up-as-it-goes-along!

It’s 15 and a half minutes long—such a lot of work by an international group effort—and I seriously laughed out loud many times watching it. Make sure that you watch the brief after-end-credits-sequence. It’s overdubbed with some silly dialogue that I wrote on this page of the Star Wars adaptation. I exploded in laughter at it. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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