Re: Something Positive 30 Nov 2005

mjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Jackson) writes:
[visitors to another strip]
> I believe a fair fraction of web cartoonists *could not* draw
> credibly in another cartoonist's style - they don't have the
> "professional" skills that years of experience bring.

It's not just the web cartoonists.

I mean, Ces Marculiano does a pretty good version of the Peanuts
gang, but they're still not 100% spot-on. And when John Byrne
took that afternoon off to draw a couple of months of Funky
strips, the style noticeably changed.

> In fact a fair fraction don't seem to be able to draw visitors
> adeptly enough to make them clearly differentiable from members
> of the regular cast.

Pete Abrams did a great version of AJ from "User Friendly". Then
again, Illiad's cut-and-paste front-and-side-and-that's-yer-lot
"style" wouldn't even remotely fit in with Sluggy Freelance's
well-drawn multiple-perspectives style.

(And entirely by the way, very few people can draw Tokyo quite as
convincingly as Fred Gallagher can, and I include many Japanese
artists who actually *live* here in that. Masakazu Katsura's army
of assistants do pretty well, but it comes across as somewhat
chilly because they trace photographs rather than drawing. Shame
his strip moves slower than "Spider-Man" or, sticking with
web-comics, "Freefall".)

>> Understood. But Kestrel still looked like a somewhat-SPized
>> version of the QoW character. In yesterday's strip, she looked
>> like a fairly generic SP character and didn't even have her
>> trademark red hair (and we KNOW Randy has no qualms against
>> drawing women with brightly-colored hair).
>
> I dunno - while there are differences between
>
> http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08162004.shtml
>
> and
>
> http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11302005.shtml
>
> I wouldn't say the former was clearly closer to the QoW Kestrel
>
> http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040816.html
>
> than the latter.

Also, it could be argued that since QoW has finished, Randy has
more latitude to have Kestrel look like a S*P character (as,
indeed, that is the strip she's inhabiting these days) than he'd
had before.

--Dave
.

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