Tantive IV Pursued! (3)
Last Updated (Tuesday, 08 June 2010 15:00)
Camp dialogue, "Oh, we'll prepare alright". Is it a ship full of sarcastic rebel hairdressers perhaps? "Curlers at the ready girls!"
For some reason this reminds me of Monty Python's Everest Expedition sketch from the '70s. The expedition is manned by camp male hairdressers! In the briefing room I imagine that one of them (the late Graham Chapman) taps the map of Everest with his pointer stick; the various stages are marked out "First, we'll set up Base-Salon... here."
Art Notes
"The mountain with the biggest tits in the world"
(Monty Python)
These sort of pages don't do a lot for me I'm afraid. This was me trying to be a proper comic artist. Now, to be honest, I was trying to do that even on the really early stuff - but there's a real self-consciousness here. Almost as if I believed it was publication quality. It's the innocent naivete of the older, crappier stuff that makes it so nice - and funny.
What I do like about these pages is the attempt to inject a bit of colour. I really do feel that boys are less interested in colour than girls. Girls are very - sort of, inner-expressive in their art I think, and colour is very attractive to them as a way of not just prettifying their work but to make it express their feelings.
Boys on their other hand, seem to be more eager to demonstrate the outline of the thing: with line only. I think males feel that they must get an idea accross efficiently and perhaps - taken further - more accurately. The urge toward 'correct', realistic depiction of a thing can be what people often call anally-retentive. (Probably a mis-use of the term) Little do boys know, much of the time, that the world of things does not consist of outlines. Girls when depicting things and ideas seem more open to and willing express and depict them via tone and colour. Now go and write me a 10 page essay for Monday.
Not a very funny page today is it? Never mind, I'll leave you with a Youtube link to that Python clip!
