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| Mars Attacks: Zombies vs Robots #1 (IDW, January 2013) Unused 'full-colour' variant cover by Dave Sim |
This was the first cover for IDW that I did. Ted Adams (IDW CEO) sent me a fax about their top secret January project with all
of these guest artists doing MARS ATTACKS covers. Would I do "Mars
Attacks Cerebus"? The selling point in this case was the chance to do
my best Graham Ingels / Berni Wrightson ink style. Also, I was in the
middle of the HARDtalk Virtual Tour at The Comics Journal's website and being
called every name under the sun but "white man". So, it was like, hmm.
Maybe instead of MARS ATTACKS CEREBUS -- why not CEREBUS ATTACKS... but,
like being Dave Sim, he doesn't even get to SAY what he's attacking. As
soon as he says "CEREBUS..." the automatic reaction is to just blow his
head off. I got them to colour it glamourpuss cover style -- just a
background colour so it doesn't interfere with the linework. And then
they also did a full colour version. I actually prefer the full-colour
version. Whoever the colourist was stayed within a narrow colour
spectrum that wouldn't kill the fine lines. I forgot to mention my
preference to Chris Ryall, the editor in chief, until just the other
day. So I hope I was in time. It makes a nice
companion piece to the Cerebus and glamourpuss Zombie covers that I did. CAN I
actually ink that fine and still have it reproduce?
CHRIS RYALL (IDW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF):
Sadly, we all thought Dave would want the cover the way he described it, and
had to approve the book sooner than later, so the final printed version is
the one with more minimal color.
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