{"id":922,"date":"2008-01-21T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2008-01-21T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:29:01","slug":"midnight-sun-on-satisfactory-comics-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Sun on Satisfactory Comics Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Mike over at the Satisfactory Comics blog<\/a>, who’s posted a nice review of Midnight Sun<\/em><\/a>, along with some scans of artwork therein. As Mike notes, I’ve been involved in a few random projects over the years with him and his frequent comics collaborator Isaac Cates and he’s linked to a few of those in the post itself.<\/p>\n

Among the many kind words about the book, Mike gives a shout-out to my supposed boot-drawing skills… and while I’d love to be able to claim this rightful honor, I’ve got to come clean and confess to the use of actual boots as reference for a lot of the drawings in Midnight Sun<\/em>, and certainly in the panel he’s highlighted:<\/p>\n

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Thankfully, the design of basic leather lace-up boots hasn’t really changed that much over the years, so I was conveniently able to use these beat-up army surplus books from my rock and roll past as reference throughout. No boot-drawing prodigy be I, I’m afraid… but there’ s no shame in using reference, folks. I’ve seen many a student sit at a desk for hours, struggling to draw, for example, a decent-looking car, while an entire street-full of cars sits just a few feet outside the building. Foolishness, I say!<\/p>\n

Now, if only I’d had an army surplus airship handy… For a very, very early draft of the book that involved a whole lot more drawings of the Italia<\/em> itself, I got so frustrated by my inability to get decent drawings of the oddly-shaped craft that I built a little model of the thing by doctoring up a model of the Hindenburg with a hacksaw, Dremel tool and a bit of Bondo:<\/p>\n

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While you’re over at the Satisfactory Comics blog<\/a>, you should really check out Mike and Issac’s collaborative story they’ve just wrapped up for the upcoming volume two of Elfworld<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 If there’s ever been a more challenging collaborative story done in comics, I sure as heck don’t know what it is.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been intending to do a full post on the completed project, but for the time being, just go have a look.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the best way to view it from the beginning is to start here<\/a>, reading bottom-most post to top-most, then moving forward in time by clicking “Newer Posts” on the bottom left of each page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Mike over at the Satisfactory Comics blog, who’s posted a nice review of Midnight Sun, along with some scans of artwork therein. As Mike notes, I’ve been involved in a few random projects over the years with him and his frequent comics collaborator Isaac Cates and he’s linked to a few of those … <\/p>\n

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