Eatin' Trench (10)
Last Updated (Wednesday, 09 November 2011 22:53) Written by Administrator Tuesday, 08 November 2011 00:00
Art Notes
Wedge is the only Y-Wing left - that T.I.E. just cancelled another one!
Cancelled? Is that how one refers to a fallen comrade?
Like all of the later pages drawn in black marker - this has colour. I was inspired by my pal Niall Farrington who coloured-in the last few pages of my annual No.1 that I lent him.
The cheapskates at Marvel UK printed many of the pages in that first annual in black and white! Worse still was the annual that they gave us the next Xmas - after a year's wait: a bad quality reprint of that godawful Dragon Lords series that we'd already had to suffer week by week in the comic. Not only printed badly but in pink/magenta and not much else. A bit of a disappointment on Xmas day 1979, to say the least. Carmine Infantino - arggh!
Annual no.1: 1978So, Niall did such an impressive job of colouring in the pages in annual number 1 - with his small pack of colouring pencils, that I had a go too. On my own stuff.
It's a pity that I didn't colour this one more. It's difficult to tell what you're actually looking at!
Some klutz of an Imperial gunner has fired straight across the trench, missed the X-Wing and hit his colleague on the other side. I loved Space Invaders at this time though I never had the 10p coins to play it. Thankfully.
If I'd been younger I bet I'd have added a spiky "AIIIEEE!" speech balloon.
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Lavish and glossy: an impressive presentation - you'll agree
Some of you know from Facebook and Twitter that I stole a few hours on and off over the weekend working on the next childhood comic project. When I was about 10 or 11 - I think - I heard about this amazing new Sci-Fi horror film called ALIEN. I can't remember how I first heard of it. Probably from the cinema listings page of the Leinster Leader newspaper. But Niall Farrington, John Skehan and I were very excited about it. None of us had seen it because we were underage and still in primary school - and I wouldn't see it until around 1981 or 2! Somehow we actually knew about the chest-burster scene, which at that time was shocking in the extreme (still is). I hadn't seen it but that was no obstacle to adapting it into a comic. In fact, like SWa9, it was an added incentive.
I was still in primary school - just about - when I started drawing the adaptation. I remember showing the first few pages that I'd done, to John S as we walked down the country road from our houses to the village school. It's funny, I used to spend many hours working on these comics - which are now treasured items - and lend them to friends to read.
Stay tuned!
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Comments
With the incomplete ESB adaptation I'll probably just upload it all at once without commentary, because it's too well done. No laughs!
That said, I dig the little gun turrets - made me think of the ENORMOUS drawings me and my mates would do of x-wings and TIE fighters all buzzing around with little dramas dotted amongst the crudely drawn ships. Just like the ol' dotted line used for machine-gun fire in the innocent days before Star Wars drawings.
It's true. I even experimented in a drawing once with spacecraft that shot shot rapid-set gluey stuff at each other - just for a change from lasers.
"Aragorn"?
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