Age 14/15/16? | 1982/83? Yep he is. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. And I am ditching Facebook. Talk about… Art Notes Interesting pose by Han here. Are his palms against the glass—or just in the air? There’s some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14/15/16? | 1982/83? Asteroids! Art Notes So, what does Han have in his toolbox, apart from (*chortle*) Hydro-spanners? Let’s see… A Spoon?—for eating his cornflakes while he’s sat staring at masses of wires and gizmos, trying to figure out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? There’s something verrrrry Dracula-like about that Wampa. My Star Wars Influences Its quite possible that it was inspired by Gene Colan & Tom Palmer’s amazing artwork on Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula comics. Tomb of Dracula (ToD)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Han braves the hellish Hoth blizzard to save his friend Luke. Hell? Yes, this was an odd sounding bit in the Star Wars universe, but something similar has since appeared in The Last Jedi, when Laura[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Luke performs Jedi telekinesis for the first time in a Star Wars movie! And he comes very close to slicing his own feet off! It’s very tempting to say that this is a more mature page,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Luke gets walloped by a Wampa! Hence explaining those little changes in poor Mark Hamill’s face that appeared since the previous film. Movie Trivia Funnily enough, last night I found a 1980 clipping from one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1978 | age 10? I love this page. It blows me away! There’s much to enjoy in it—even fancy creative lettering Art Notes In 1978 probably, I drew Han’s mute face (top-left) in green biro—but nothing more. Later, around 1979?—I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/83? | age 14? The drawing’s pretty good in this one—especially in the bottom panel. My God, it’s almost like… a photograph! I don’t know why, but for some reason I always liked Howard Chaykin’s image of Luke’s fist scrubbing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1977 & 1978? | age 9 & 10? This is a messy but funny looking page. But then, it’s not like… MARK HAMILL’s gonna see it. Is he? Neil Baker—reader and unpaid publicist for SWa9—used his one opportunity to Tweet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early 1978 | age 9 Beautiful—are you sure? “……YOUR MORE BEUTIFULL THAN I THOUGHT” One of the first attempts to extol Leia’s beauty! 9 or 10 year old boys really don’t have much of an appreciation of the opposite sex’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…