Henry Flint's Day of Chaos inks

[kylestrahm]

A few days ago Henry Flint posted some Day of Chaos pages on his blog. I'm a big fan.

http://henryflint.wordpress.com/

[Frank]

http://henryflint.wordpress.com/

Cheers, kyle. I often find myself wondering whether the line art on coloured pages would stand up against that of 2000ad's black and white era, and those pages answer that question definitively. Flint did a great job on Day of Chaos.

[El Chivo]

Beautiful stuff, man's a genius!

Chi

[SMUDGE10]

Fabulous!

Would anyone like to join my campaign to make 2000 entirely black and white again?

[blackmocco]

Sign me up.

[kylestrahm]

Yeah, I'd buy a 2000ad black and white special.

[hoops]

Fabulous!

Would anyone like to join my campaign to make 2000 entirely black and white again?

I'm in...

[Frank]

Fabulous! Would anyone like to join my campaign to make 2000 entirely black and white again?

You're only stealing the thunder of my campaign to have it printed on bog paper with odd serated edges down one side and ink that rubs off on your bedsheets, again. When 2000ad first introduced full colour art for the strip on the centre pages, I assumed that this privelege would be reserved for prestige stories and artists whose style benefitted from the improved reproduction- like Bisley on Horned God.

I'm not sure what purpose Burton and Mackenzie imagined would be served by making an artist like Kev Hopgood break out the inks and airbrush for Dry Run. His art on that strip relied on exactly the same techniques and effects as his b/w line work on Night Zero; so unless you really wanted to know what colour the different horses were, paying Hopgood more money to take more time producing something that looked much the same was a waste of resources.

I'd love to see an artist like Steve Yeowell given the opportunity to work in the medium that best suits his style again, but any modern strips produced in b/w would end up having to be coloured anyway, to suit the formatting demands of the US reprint books.

[SMUDGE10]

You're only stealing the thunder of my campaign to have it printed on bog paper with odd serated edges down one side and ink that rubs off on your bedsheets, again.

YUP! Totally with you there....
You sound like a chap with fine taste! 

...not entirely sure about the 'bedsheet' bit though....