Jam its transmission! (10)
Last Updated (Friday, 21 December 2012 15:53) Written by Administrator Friday, 08 April 2011 00:00
My Arm - My Arm!
I really can't imagine how on earth I drew Solos body so badly. Perhaps it was quickly dashed off when I heard the theme music for Battle of the Planets from the other room. Hmm. That'd make it a Friday.
Solo: "It's headed for that small moon"
Death Star: "Who are you calling a small moon? What about your freakishly-small arm?
Solo: "Agh! He's right! Hey kenobi, use the Force for something useful will you? And FIX MY WITHERED ARM?"
Some Practicalities of Publishing
Anyhooo.... we're half way though the main body of the book now, so everything flips the left. There will be an extra 10 or 20 pages which complete the book though. They were stapled together and added to the end. When you keep adding folded over A4 pages, there comes a point at which you have to guess when you've arrived at the middle of the comic. You then stop adding sheets, and begin drawing on the other half. Inevitably, you get near the end of the book and discover you've run out of pages to finish the story! So that's how extra ones got stapled in at the end.
Art Notes
You know, as a kid, you tend not to give much time to planning how you're going to put the words and pictures together and tell the story. But come on! - to not even plan on a page-by-page basis? The dialogue in this one is a MESS. Plus, a little effort doing some backgrounds would've helped. There aren't any!
Art Crimes
Someone was telling me a couple of years ago about a notoriously bad Marvel Comics inker who ruined lots of the great Gene Colan's pencils on the 1970s Tomb of Dracula comics. Not Tom Palmer now - he became Colan's inker par excellence. A great artistic team. Apparently this other er, fellow, sometimes even brushed black all over Gene's beautiful backgrounds to save himself extra work!
The bastard.
And it gets worse. Apparently the inkers often worked directly onto the pencil work. No lightboxes or fresh sheets of paper - they just inked all over it! And my God - you should see Colan's original penciled pages.
AAAARRRGH!
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