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Please Hold For Dave Sim April 2021
If you REALLY loved me,
You'd buy me the second page to Amazing Spider-Man #8:
Seriously Jeff, what's your question for this month "Hey Dave, what's your take on War & Peace?"?
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Home to all the Cerebus #1/Spawn #10/and (if you're lucky) High Society Regency Edition swag you could throw a baby at.
Home to all the Cerebus #1/Spawn #10/and (if you're lucky) High Society Regency Edition swag you could throw a baby at.
And then I sent Dave Erick's comments on previous New Mutants posts, Dave responds:
Heh. I don't think so Dave, I don't think so...
Next Time: Not razzin' frazzin' New Mutants commentary, I tell ya that much for free...
6 comments:
I will definitely take more Dave Sim comic art commentaries like these. Keep 'em comimg!
So here's a question Dave might consider answering, if it's not already in a commentary yet to be posted:
What's Tom Orzechowski's role in the look of these pages? Dave makes it seem as if Claremont placed the exposition boxes and dialogue/thought balloons. Would that normally be the letterer's job, the penciler/layout/artist's, or, as Dave... infers(? explies?) the author's? Orzechowski's letters had by this point long been as much an identifying visual element of Professor Claremont's X-comics as any Byrne/Austin or Cockrum-styled art. So much so that I assume (infer?) that he could be trusted as much to make those placement decisions as Wein to make hers. Anyway, my question at the top is fishing for Dave to comment on Orzechowski's lettering in these specific comics or in comics in general.
Good, insightful question, Michael!
Matt, both of my questions for April are voicemail questions.
I've just gone over the CAN9 Kickstarter page and Dave's notes which were finished in April of last year so it's only one year since we started the process (but it feels a lot longer). It's a very simple campaign for those who enjoy the Cerebus Archive portfolios. Dave's four pages of notes are packed insanely tight on this one. The only "outside' image this time is a scan of some original art by Alex Toth that Dave references in the text. Otherwise it's detail from the pages themself.
#encore only this time Dave (or Malcolm X) says it a lot better than me:
"stop talking one way around white people and another way around black people. BE who you ARE."
Toronto: this guy didn't spend every waking hour abiding in awareness that he was black... Complete hoot; alas, that was our first and last meeting...
I'm sort of reading along with Dave in a Comixology edition of these New Mutants issues and just to underscore my point above, I'm about to read the annual and it actually doesn't have Orzechowski lettering. It makes the visual back to McLeod's art for that story even more jarring. It's like looking at X-comics from Earth-Two or something.
"That's a powerful unconscious comic-art metaphysics moment," ... or it's two experienced and professional comics creators using their medium to achieve an effect. Occam's Razor ...
Nevertheless, it is always interesting to see one cartoonist analyze another cartoonist's cartooning.
-- Damian
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