Meg 305

[Liam Sharp]

P.S. That should have been Jim Lee, not Jim Less! Lord knows how that happened!

[Liam Sharp]

P.P.S Robin, sorry, here's that image... (I'm all fingers and thumbs tonight!)

http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=120#/d1amfjs

[Greg M.]

That's a wonderful pin-up - Nemesis looks really horrible, frightening and sordid in that. (That's a compliment, honest!)

[Liam Sharp]

1987. Bloody hell. Can't you tell by the clothing? I remember coming up with that design for arm suspenders and thinking - that's cool and sexy! Wonder if it'll catch on? Nemesis looks particularly equine here I think.

[Greg M.]

Yes, there is something of Henry Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' in his depiction, something oddly predatory, which the differential in scale between him and Purity only serves to emphasise.

[Liam Sharp]

Uhm... slightly phallic too don't you think? 

Her badge reads Credo, naturally!

[Greg M.]

What, you mean with his bulbous glistening veiny neck? Just slightly, Mr. Sharp. Ever so slightly. 

[JayzusB.Christ]

Nice to have you on the board, Liam! And yeah, great work on Dredd (I always liked it - Killkraze the Bear rocked!).

[Greg M.]

Continuing the thread drift... you know, it occurs to me just now Liam that you drew one of my favourite ever Dredd one-offs – 'Playaday', the Playschool parody. At the time, I thought it was the funniest Dredd story I'd ever read, but more so than that, the image of the buxom female tv presenter in her stockings made a powerful impact on my twelve-year-old brain! Not easily forgotten... nor was Lianna in PJ Maybe....

[JayzusB.Christ]

nor was Lianna in PJ Maybe....

I'll second that. She was only 16 or something, but it's probably best not to think about that.
And yeah, Playaday was cool too - very sexual stuff for what was then pretty much a kids' comic. Worked for me, anyway

[Liam Sharp]

Thanks!

That Killkraze job was a nightmare actually. I lost all the pages at UKCAC, possibly in a cab. Regardless, they didn't show up despite frantic ringing round. I guess somebody must still have the originals! Anyway thankfully I had (Some) bits that were photocopied, and myself and Andy Lanning pasted it all together and filled in the holes. The deadline was the next day after the con! I'm pretty sure that Tharg thought I hadn't done them and was making an excuse - it being con weekend - but Steve Dillon will vouch for me! We caught a cab back to Finsbury Park together as we both lived there at the time. Perhaps my number one deadline nightmare of all time that one!

Re. Playaday - It seems my female characters were pretty popular! It's probably because I was only in my late teens myself - full of raging hormones! Chris Weston actually helped me with a couple of panels on that job. I never seemed to have quite enough time back then! It was a fun story.

Cheers!

L.

[Robin Low]

Going slightly off-topic, but this biomechanical Hammerstein was interesting:

http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d333kgv

Rather like the light on the snow contrasting with the shadow on this one:

http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d2bvkj8

Background detail is sorely neglected by many comic artists, so this appealed to me - I think the coloured version works better to separate Conan from the background:

http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d2khugr

I could defintitely handle a series full of this:

http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d2a0t17

...and this one too. Definitely giving Glen Fabry more than a run for his money! You should have been offered some Slaine after this:

http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=192#/d1b0yzr

And quite a bit more besides...

Regards

Robin

[Liam Sharp]

Cheers Robin. I did do a full Manthing series - one of my happiest times. It was VERY experimental, lots of Sienkewicz inks and Jeff Jones romance. J.M.DeMatteis wrote it and we had a fantastic time on the book.

The Hammerstein is shortly to be a Starscan after Tharg saw it and liked it. One of the very few times I did a comic character purely for my own entertainment.

Thanks for taking a look Robin. Appreciated.

Very best,

Liam.

[SmallBlueThing]

Not strictly 305, but i greatly enjoyed part one of Numbercruncher- printed (possibly in its entirety) in the freebie comics sampler given away with the latest Comic Heroes magazine. Looking forward to reading that again next month.
SBT

[Liam Sharp]

Absolutely wonderful review of the Dredd story here - perhaps the best of my career!

http://comicrelated.com/news/9955/judge-dredd-magazine