Roger Langridge's Blog, page 262

Work In Progress

Here's a test background for the animation thing, half-done. I want to get the process worked out before  I get the go-ahead so I can turn the job around quickly when the time comes.


Also: I wrote a few words for the Moment of Cerebus website, which you can read here.

Hatching

I'm quite pleased with the crosshatching here...

So I'm doing a little animation job...

I've never done anything in the animation field bigger than an occasional animated GIF file, so this is new territory for me, but a friend of mine does some work for the BBC and a job came up he thought my style would be a good fit for, so I'm going to be designing/storyboarding/supplying main drawings for an opening title sequence for a kids' show (assuming the producer signs off on it once he's seen my samples). Here are a few of the rough drawings...

More Christmas Carol

Here's a drawing I did for the CBLDF's annual San Diego Comic Con Art Auction. It'll also be used on a sketch card. Back to the Dickens!

Kim Thompson

I just heard about the death of Kim Thompson. I don't know what to say, really, except how sorry I am. He was extremely kind to me over the years in so many small ways. Comics are better now than they used to be, at least in part because he helped to make them so.

When I was first trying to break into comics, I prepared some funny animal samples with the intention of submitting them to Critters, which Kim used to edit. I got cold feet before I submitted them, and it was a couple more years before I sent anything else to Fantagraphics. I did eventually get to meet Kim, after Fantagraphics had published a couple of comics I'd drawn. He was kind enough to move out of his own bedroom when I visited Seattle in 1990 so I would have somewhere to sleep, which I thought then, and think now, was above and beyond the call of duty for any publisher. Later, when I would buy books from Fantagraphics at conventions, Kim would usually let me walk away with a freebie. He was always kind to me, and that will be my lasting impression of him.

Let's make some good comics for Kim. It's what he would have wanted.

Bulldog Drummond

Maybe more of a spaniel, actually.

Art Bomb

Karloff Boots

This is another favourite convention sketch which I usually trot out two or three times per show. There must be dozens of variations of this gag out there.

Troll

Sketchballs