In which Penelope Dreadful and Ha’Penny continue their conversation with the Reverend Penny Mother, despite a change in venue.
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Archive for December, 2012
13 comics.
In which the Reverend Penny Mother demonstrates that it’s not just Jack who is made dull by all work and no play.
In which the collected Pennies reflect that having answers to certain key questions would be some kind of wonderful.
In which some questions are raised regarding the mechanics of identity, and of the outcome of nature versus nurture.
Bonus points to the first reader to identify the inspiration for this one… I haven’t made it hard 😉
(UPDATE) Okay, no takers… maybe I haven’t allowed enough time, but I wanted to share a great article series about my inspiration: Why Miracleman Matters. If you haven’t read Miracleman (or, as originally known, Marvelman), you need to. End of story. Of course, you may find it difficult, as covered by this link: A Legal History of Marvelman. Glad I still have my originals and all the graphic novels. 🙂
Anyway, one of the things I dislike about “re-mastered” reprints of originally black-and-white comics is the massively overdone nature of the colours. Modern colourization treatments of classics often falls flat for me. That’s always been true, and was one of the little things that struck me wrong about the Miracleman Eclipse reprints. When the tones used on the original pages in Warrior were coloured over, it resulted in a garbled, over-done look that didn’t work as well for me as the original black & white artwork. I’ve tried to replicate a bit of that feel here.
In which the beat is interrupted, and Bad Penny shows her colours.
Okay. THIS one is the one I’m really displeased with. I’ve enjoyed Archie comics since I was a kid, but for a long, long time now, I’ve felt the art (well, okay – the writing, occasionally, too) was just hack work, and could be so much better. “Come on,” I’d say, “ANYONE can draw Archies!” As I’ve shown here, that’s not really true…
One noteworthy exception is the brilliant work done by Giselle Lagace on Archie 635 & 636. THAT’S how Archies should be drawn.
And no, none of my three basses is a blonde Rickenbacker 4003, but I hope #4 will be!
In which Bad Penny, tired of having her buttons pushed, pushes one herself, and moves more worlds than just her own.
With this strip, I tried some cool plugins I learned of through the (sadly, now defunct) Art & Story podcast, courtesy of Jerzy Drozd and Mark Rudolph. The Photoshop plugins, Flatten and Multifill, were an enormous help to quickly colouring all the insane little detailed bits I dropped in to the space station trying to simulate a blend of Geoff Darrow and Dave Gibbons. Oh, wait, this is how I actually draw! Now you know why I’m so bleeding slow. 🙂 Anyway, the plugins are phenomenal – check them out!
In which Penelope demonstrates the difficulty in pondering philosophical questions on an empty stomach.
In which Penelope and the Bobs discuss the finer points of teamwork – and spelling.
In which Penelope’s thoughts – and other objects – drift off into the black.
In which Bob walks to work through an approaching storm.