1978/79? | age 10/11? Ratcheting-up the evil of the Empire still further, the Imperials kill Rebel Prisoners at Yavin IV. I’d read plenty of WWII comics by this time and was familiar with SS tactics against civilians and prisoners. Yet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978/79? | age 10/11? Another massacre! I’m not sure every droid really must be destroyed, but it sure must have been fun to draw and of course—ahem… it shows what baddies the Empire are. This one is drawn thin airmail[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 The Jetpack Stormtroopers have landed, and the Star Destroyers are back. Back—hoovering up more stuff with their tractor beams! (Maybe they missed a bit last time?) I should probably remind you, readers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 Han and Chewie check out of the operation room (?) after the R-Bomb detonates, and prepare to meet a new Imperial threat from the skies: Jetpack Stormtroopers! More Prescience! Similar to The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 Han and Chewie pull through after Hawkeye Pierce & Co. do their stuff! Art Notes, etc I like this page a lot. It’s cute and it also has a bit of tension[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 The young me is going for shock value as a budding comic writer. Who’s going to ‘get it’ next? It appears that I was getting a bit experimental with this page. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 Cor… hundreds of Imperial Star Destroyers! But what good are Snub-Fighters going to be against them? Spelling!—and Lettering “What happened to the Death Star—we heard nothing about it.” Then how did you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982? | age 14? Hey, Leia’s doing that ‘Heroine standing in the observation room while the male heroes fight’ —thing. But I thought that was a Michael Bay trademark? Oh, I feel dirty now, after mentioning that director… Film Notes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mid 1978? | age 10? Han gets really emotional in this page. You see? When we were kids, and we read the novelisation and the comics and listened to the radio dramas—we got an extra spin on the story and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early 1978 | age 9 We’re going way back in time again in this page and the next. These are the most childishly drawn ones, and my favourites. I’m guessing I took my visual references from the collectible «trading cards.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…