And Chewie meets Luke SkyWalken Ben‘s like a Samurai here isn’t he? And is Luke being played by Christopher Walken, now? («previously it was Patrick Mower) This comic has a veritable cast of thousands. Howard Chaykin’s slightly more exciting, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art (?) Notes “BEN KENOBI JEDI-NIGHT” This most juvenile of all of the pages must have been drawn in December 1977 – or very early 1978. I’m astonished at just how rudimentary the drawing is! You could be forgiven for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IPC’s old weekly Battle Comic—which featured the awesome Charley’s War—was probably an influence here in my version of Star Wars. Unlike DC Thompson’s gung-ho Warlord Comic precursor, which I grew up on, Battle tended not to pull punches – and had a[…]↓ 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…