Cover by Moebius. It’s true! Doesn’t really look like the work we normally know him by, but there you have it.
When was the last time you were shamed into drinking a Grecian liqueur? Too long, methinks.
Oh man. If you’re touting playing The Eagles, Boston and Peter Frampton as NOT “the same old song”, you must be in the 70s.
We didn’t get to him last issue, but this here’s the work of Vaughn Bodē. You may have seen knock-offs of his stuff on street walls among other graffiti. For some reason his art just struck a nerve with indie wall artists. His stories are complete nonsense, but they’re fun in their own way.
But hey, more Druillet weirdness. I’ll be honest, if there’s deeper meaning to his tales, they escape me. If there’s any actual substance, it escapes me. But wow, look at this fever dream imagery.
And how often do you see a two-page vertical spread? Not nearly enough!
And now Den gets punched by a lizard man! Which, as we all know, is a sure-fire way to jog those ol’ memories back into place.
Man, the colors! THE COLORS!
I fear to guess the hours it must have taken to render this spider’s web, much less the entire comic. DON’T MAKE ME
Amazing light and shadow work in that first panel, and the MOVEMENT in that last panel!
Okay, and now, what the hell is going on? Please tell me I won’t be hearing “Roger, I want your ass!” in my dreams tonight. Please. I can’t… I’m too fragile.
I feel that there’s some metaphor dancing just beyond my awareness here. Probably you all get it, right? That makes me happy. Okay. Moving on.
Hey! It’s Moebius! My happy place! Giant alien orangutan/gorilla dong, a bit less so. But, y’know… French.
My grud, the line work. Painstaking. And remember, that’s pronounced “pains taking”, not “pain staking”. You’re not staking pains, you’re taking pains. Always bothers me when people say it wrong. And because this is my platform, I get to vent about it. Woo!
And finally, a word of caution to black and white artists: if you don’t vary your line weights, your details all blend into each other, making it extremely difficult to understand what you’ve drawn. Good luck!
See you all Monday for issue #3!
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