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General / Hivemind Help: Oz Team Star Scan
« on: 16 February, 2013, 11:48:23 AM »
Reading through some of douglaswolk's now completed Dredd Reckoning blog, I was reminded of his request for information regarding the identities of the creative and editorial droids returning from their fact finding mission in preparation for the Oz epic in this star scan. I'm reasonably confident in my identification of all but two of the parties involved, but any help in identifying them all would be greatly appreciated.
As a sidebar, one of the most useful aspects of the brilliant Barney is in identifying the sometimes uncredited artists responsible for covers and pin-ups which I spent many hours speculating over as a kid (i). In this particular instance though Barney disappoints, crediting the Oz star scan to the unusually prolific Chilean artist, Unknown. That hand gesture is an instantly recognisable Dillon trope, but this depiction of Tharg is markedly different to how Dillon portrays him just a short while later. Dillon inked by someone else? Kitson? Mark Farmer? Are the droid caricatures by the same artist as the framing image of Tharg?
(i) this series of Dark Judges pin-ups being a particular example. I'm sure I guessed Gary leach at some point, but I also spent years speculating they could also have been produced by Cliff Robinson, John Higgins, Simon Harrison and Steve Dillon too, since lots of the early painted colour work of familiar artists varied quite wildly - see Dillon's schizophrenic painted/flat colour work on stories like Alabammy Blimps and his covers for Oz and Tyranny Rex around that period.
As a sidebar, one of the most useful aspects of the brilliant Barney is in identifying the sometimes uncredited artists responsible for covers and pin-ups which I spent many hours speculating over as a kid (i). In this particular instance though Barney disappoints, crediting the Oz star scan to the unusually prolific Chilean artist, Unknown. That hand gesture is an instantly recognisable Dillon trope, but this depiction of Tharg is markedly different to how Dillon portrays him just a short while later. Dillon inked by someone else? Kitson? Mark Farmer? Are the droid caricatures by the same artist as the framing image of Tharg?
(i) this series of Dark Judges pin-ups being a particular example. I'm sure I guessed Gary leach at some point, but I also spent years speculating they could also have been produced by Cliff Robinson, John Higgins, Simon Harrison and Steve Dillon too, since lots of the early painted colour work of familiar artists varied quite wildly - see Dillon's schizophrenic painted/flat colour work on stories like Alabammy Blimps and his covers for Oz and Tyranny Rex around that period.