mid-1978? | age 10? Indeed: What’s a duck? Put aside those philosophy and self-help books dear reader. All the wisdom you’ll ever need is before you–right now. Read on… This was, one of the pages which most spurred me into[…]↓ 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…
Colonel Gaderafii Sticks It’s just one of the versions of that moniker that I often used. Gaffi – Gader-fii, Gader-afi, Gaddafi… Creative Lettering “AAAA EEEEEEEEEE” It flows from Luke – top-left – across the assailant and down the page as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes Skipping to the good bits Yep, still at the droid sale – but we are making some progress. And sudden, rapid progress it is too! Luke gasps those immortal words, “She’s beautiful!” A lot is compressed into one[…]↓ 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…
Hmmm… ‘don’t recall that bit This is a bit of a 1977 curio! I was so pleased to discover this page separately from the rest of the comic. An unexpected pleasure. Pretty funny, but it also seems as if it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bravery-Bypass Circuits One of the nice things about reading this comic is that it makes the actual film feel fresh and new again. Not because this one looks old and crappy and smells of damp (it does) – but rather,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sandcrawler M1-+ More jargon for you Star Wars buffs! I bet you didn’t know that the Jawas’ sandcrawler was a model ‘Em one minus plus’? Did you eh – eh? Thought you knew everything. Yes, it’s WELL KNOWN amongst well-read Star[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…