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Jock
when's your Swamp Thing issue out?

yours, in pant wetting anticipation,

Simon D

I'd rather be an improper artist...I'm pretty happy how my stuff is printed...the time delay from me doing the work and it seeing print is long enough to forget what it looked like in the first place which is a help...these 'puter artists obviously still have their artwork so can compare if they so desire..so hooray for the stone age and paints and paper etc....but i think Mark's stuff is amazing and for instance the Glimmer Rats collection was terrific and printed really well...

simon davis

it's a shame she's gone to Valhalla...a very funny person indeed..

Simon

Are there any websites etc devoted to "Look and Learn'? It was a staple of my childhood, bought for me by my folks in the desparate  hope that I would become a 'dynamic boffin'...it failed but I really liked the mag....the illustrators were brilliant and the Trigan Empire was great..
...I occasionally see old annuals in charity shops which,on flicking through, make me weep like a child in a butchers' shop....
and the handy origami-style pull-out booklets that you had to collect (dinosaurs etc) were what i lived for...
yours, bathing in nostalgia

Simon Davis

that is sad..he was a lovely bloke

simon

I promise it is the one and only time I use them for naughtiness....with great power comes great responsibility...or some such guff...


s

I wished I hadn't divulged this info now...it didn't say I couldn't be a drawist...honest...
s

I'm really not one to get het up but...

HEY! I've come runner-up in the 'PG Tips  Wallace & Gromit design a tea making machine competition'  and won a DVD of  their capers ......I am swollen with pride and it is not a pretty sight......

must stay focussed...

Simon Davis

Jock
marvellous as always...echoes of Sergio Toppi....this will force me to buy a comic for the first time in about a year...curse you for being so good....

simon d

Politics can be done in comics really well (mainly if you are Alan Moore) as you point out but not the stupid stuff that Marvel/DC crank out every now and then...some of the post 9/11 stuff was toe-curling...heart was in the right place but awful just the same....unfortunately Miller harks back to the 50's when it was CHILDREN read comics rather than the considerably older readership now and stereotypes reign supreme so any ludicrously crass and clumsy attempts just don't work  on a hopefully more balanced age range nowadays...Frank Miller has employed this immature ethos in sin city to great effect ie men =tough ,women=tits or beautiful lesbians or Hottie Ninjas etc....its embarrasing when done seriously...really it's why american comics are ,with a few exceptions, crap. ...I picked up some french stuff recently and it's so refreshing...it just strikes me as some of these US titles are just tired old corpses being dragged through the same old streets .best
Simon D

ps damn this cheap wine again....
pps i agree with all that Gordon said...

This does sound a bit of an ill-advised foray into mixing the real with the unreal.....  Superheroes nailing the bad guys in 50's with all the paranoia and fear of the 'Reds under the Beds' threat seems literally a different world  ..and this latest Frank Miller idea looks like an attempt to get back to those simple reassuring times.. In the 21st century ,with all its' relentless media coverage, generally everyone has an understanding  that the world is rarely as clear cut as it is or more importantly is perceived to be..well it does to me anyhow .I'm looking forward to the Batman Guantanemo Bay episode anyway...
Comic storytelling is a great medium...but mixing a guy in a suit with VERY serious stuff is a bit....simplistic..

I could be pleasantly surprised though...might be as life-affirming as the end of Rocky IV ....

I have had a glass of wine... so apologies..

Simon Davis

"is it still on?"....it's just arrived...it is the depths of Worcestershire after all...it's sad that Peter Benchley didn't live to see his creation hit the big screen in these parts......etc etc


Simon

Went to see "Goblet of Fire " at the cinema in Pershore last night...it was great...if i was 10 , I would be spending today drawing Mermen and Dragons (instead of Elephant-like blokes)...it has restored my faith in those sort of films ...especially after the absolute hideousness of the Star Wars films and the snoozability of Kong.
just thought I'd say...don't mean nuthin'...


Simon Davis

I won't be.....i'll go to Dreddcon if there is one I think..

Simon Davis

Hidden is a great film

simon