Death Valley Tatooine Artwork Notes Good old green felt-tip! Needs must, when there are no blacks or greys left. Do you like the skeleton skull of the Space-Cow?Ah yes, the ubiquitous cow. Notice that « Ben never said to Luke “A[…]↓ 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…
The Sandcrawler that stopped at Uncle Owen’s place Neee-owwwwww! Or however it is that you do race-car sounds. I bloody love this. Sorry if you don’t but I really, really do. You know, I might actually compile all the really[…]↓ 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…
“..he’s me!” I’m not keen on this page which might be from 1980 or even later, 1982? It’s very difficult to tell. The following pages of Luke in Ben’s house drag a bit with multiple versions of the scene, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s just ‘pants’ Possibly late 1978 or sometime in ’79. I do like this one of the stormtroopers in the desert. “I can’t see anything!” “Have you tried BINOCULARS?” And what about the Stormtrooper in panel 3? Running figures are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…