c.1983? | age 15? Some stormtroopers still can’t hit a barn door, or even a blast door, it seems! Han/Harrison Ford makes that risky leap through the Death Star blast doors. In a few decades time Ford will not be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 |age 9/10 Han has to make the leap through the blast doors! Hey, do you think he should have been called ‘Hands Solo’? Or, ‘Hands So-big’? You might miss it, but that’s Chewie’s lower leg just vanishing though the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1983? | age 14? It’s the big swashbuckler-style swing across the chasm! And it looks very like Howard Chaykin’s version. Hmmm… But if only I’d better understood the ‘direction-of-action’ in my panels. Art Notes: Howard Chaykin & Me FRIPP —[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1983? | age 14? When Leia kisses Luke before that swing, and she says “For luck” it was a really great Star Wars moment (Though in hindsight—after Star Wars subsequently became a bit of a Skywalker family soap opera—it’s a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1983 | age 14/15? Luke and Leia flee the stormtroopers — holy canted angles Batman! This’ll be a short post today. The «previous one was long, with lots of text and graphical content, but I don’t think many people even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early-mid 1978? | age 9/10? Well… looky here boys, we got ourselves one a them there Shape-Shifters! The ever changing actors of SWa9! Art Notes Consistency Shape-shifting actors, revisions at various times, blue biro, black biro… How much fun would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.early 1979? | age 10/11? There’s not much in this incomplete page today readers, but that’s how it goes at Star Wars age 9. What’s done is done. I can’t go back and change it now. Or at least: I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Carrie Fisher R.I.P. It feels impossible that she’s passed away. All of that personality and wit just — extinguished. But is it? She made such a mark on the world of Star Wars fans and non Star Wars fans alike,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1981/82 | age 13? There’s an odd mix of drawing ability this one. Panel 2—the closeup on Ben—shows an ability beyond my young years. So why is the bottom one so badly done? Puzzling indeed. Panel 2 actually reminds me somehow,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1978/79? | age 10/11? It’s a wibbly-wobbly, hard to read one today. It’s hard to tell when it was drawn, too. The stormtrooper, top-right looks to have been quite carefully copied from somewhere. I’m guessing it was from the Marvel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…