SFTPaS-SFX And with a Karate cry – Artoo gets zapped by a Jawa! More patented «Smudged-Felt-Tip-Pen-and-Spit SFX, and the judicial use of stuck-in «collectible bubble gum cards. For ease of pronunciation and memorisation, let’s from now on, call it: SFTPaS-SFX. There: simple.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes: Spider-Sense Jawas! Well, I’m smiling again now. Sorry to be self-centred but this page brings back all sorts of memories as it’s another one of the earliest ones. Funnily enough there’s no real build up in the drama.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s page is a goody! We see the Jawas at last. And it’s another of those “what if George had taken this approach?” sort of affairs. We get to see what actually happened to poor whinging pain-in-the-arse Threepio after he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whe-heyyy! We get to gaze upon the Death Star a second time. And check out the newly added SWa9 SPECIAL EDITION version. Can you imagine navigating that squiggly trench? I think you’d need a few X-Wing-handbrake turns. THE AN EMPIRE SHIP HEADS[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Leia spits on Vader, and… exciting news just in: the English language has a new word: IMBICLE! And, check out the SPECIAL EDITION version, below! Art Notes Blimey – she’s a bit rough! Yet again, I can’t claim all the credit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a variation one one of the escape-pod scenes. And now… with an Swa9 SPECIAL EDITION version of this page – for fun! Watch out for more of these. Art Notes Another of my favourite, very early pages. Any pen would do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SWa9 should carry a PG rating – because of this page alone which was partly inspired by the great work of comic artist Alex Nino. I think it’s from 1978, when I was 9 or 10. And it just goes to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More blood! I thought that this was from around 1981, judging by the artwork: somewhere between poor and getting better. But it’s something of a hybrid… Art Notes: Hidden Drawing I suspected that there was a drawing in the top panel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Film Notes Today we finally meet the adorable Threepio and Artoo! Isn’t it wonderful when a filmmaker – and an actor get it so right? Could you make the world fall in love with a tin-can? This was yet another magical scene when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early 1977 | age 9 Panel 2 will have been copied from the shot of the rebels awaiting the enemy to board their ship, which was on the Trading Cards and later, on the inside of my Soundtrack album. Film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…