“..he’s me!” I’m not keen on this page which might be from 1980 or even later, 1982? It’s very difficult to tell. The following pages of Luke in Ben’s house drag a bit with multiple versions of the scene, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes: Tiniest of Details I posted a comment to Blue Milk Special‘s webcomic some time ago because I’d discovered a peculiar and amusing panel in Howard Chaykin‘s Marvel adaptation of Star Wars. Have a look at it on the left.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes Uncle Owen looks so shabby in this that I’m surprised that I didn’t go so far as to draw stink fumes and flies buzzing around him. Reminds me of what my wife Gabrielle said about Rainbow‘s‘Long Live Rock[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meeting Luke for real I love the way the film is structured. As George himself said, the film is mostly carried for the first 20 minutes by the 2 droids. “We’re seeing the story through their eyes.” This was borrowed from Kurosawa‘s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“WZ•ys†” (or words to that effect) As they used to say in Marvel comics – there will be a great big no-prize to whoever can guess what that means. We’re getting inside the sandcrawler, with it’s slightly Giger-esque chute. Art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes It’s pretty pedestrian fare today, readers. Artoo’s stroll is about to be interrupted. This comes – I think – from around 1982. It’s the ‘I’m a proper artist’ stuff again – so not very funny! The big pack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s funny, I always thought the colour in the Marvel comic was a bit over the top, especially in Issue 1 of Marvel’s Star Wars adaptation, and not at all faithful to the film. But do you see what you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another “I can draw like the pros page“. But a ruler wouldn’t go amiss. Script Notes When I returned to this comic I was interested in some of the out-of-place nuggets of quality writing that appeared in it here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…