So Many Emotions! I’ll briefly reflect on this disappointing later page – and then move onto my own thoughts about the New Star Wars Episode VII Trailer. Yaaaaay! And I’d love to read your own thoughts, by the way. “Yaaaay![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wait, Luke! It’s too dangerous. Artwork Notes This is just the later early ’80s stuff. Looks like I was taking a rest from drawing – again! Film Notes I recall watching the ‘Making of Star Wars’ with great, wide-eyed excitement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OOEEUG! Fire the Makeup Department! Mouse-over for the earlier version! I ponder Mark’s makeup, the insensitive treatment of dead Jawas, the Star Wars/Empire double-bill in 1980, the accuracy of Stormtroopers and alternate tinkered-with artwork. Which makes George not much worse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yawwwwwwn. Oh well. Slim-pickings today. Artwork Notes Our dear pal and reader « Neil Baker commented the other daythat he’d like to see these later, c.1981-83 pages get the ‘« Special Edition‘ treatment. I’m not impressed with them, but it’s almost tempting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Ridiculously Good Looking” I worry lately that these pages might have been drawn—gasp—when I was in 2nd or 3rd year in secondary school. Putting me at 12-14 years? Jesus, if my classmates only knew… “No seriously lads, I’m not a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Watch it with that thing! I told you he shouldn’t have let him have that lightsaber. He nearly slices Ben’s ear off in the bottom-left. (Nerdy) Film Notes Father or not? Whilst I wouldn’t like to over-analyse a fictional story–which was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My other comic: Between * Wars! Since making this site, I was inspired by my young self to create a new original grown-up comic. Please check it out and give it a ‘Share’? It’d mean lots to me. The current[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who Needs Drawing? Liberal use of speech balloons today! It’s easier than drawing right? Ben finds Leia’s holographic message… Art Notes We’ve jumped straight to the interior of Ben’s home with the last page. The Marvel comic did the same.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art & Text Notes A Super-Oldie page today: definitely late ’77/early ’78. You know, back then, I was still extremely confused about how to do all the comic-art style lines around the cheekbones. And noses were a cause of bafflement,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mid 1978? | age 10? The search for R2-D2 begins in this comic page from sometime in 1978, when I was 9 or 10 years old – so it’s one of my favourites. I suppose it’s impossible to convey the magical sense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…