We met Racannah in the last issue. She and Varaxunax did not and do not get along.
I’m sometimes tempted to create a regular feature here on Water Phoenix King called This Week in Self-Loathing, where I show off some of the stuff I would draw if I had the talent and dedication. So today’s feature is David Aja, who has worked on Iron Fist and whose recent work on Hawkeye has demonstrated the flexibility and usefulness of the simple 3×3 grid I favor.
Look at this stuff
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Also: great use of sharp colors to distinguish foreground and background and to make motions clear.
Also also: the writer, Matt Fraction, knows how to entertain
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Hopefully all the HTML works. For some reason ComicPress doesn’t have a Preview button. Ramblin’ Bob’s Good Ol’ Chat-n-Greet Forum, circa 2005, has a Preview button, but apparently not ComicPress, so I’m stuck hardcoding most of this stuff like I’m back in high school.
I know, an artist who is satisfied with his work is a dead artist. Yet I must protest against your “self-loathing” thing. Your art is the reason I follow your comic for a long while now. It has a very unique style, I see you somewhere between Hergé’s “Ligne claire” and Frank Millers work in “Return Of the DarkKnight”. Quite abstract and very descriptive. Yes is is nice to draw realistic, but I hope the day you switch to that 0-8-15-style every second super heroe comic is done in will never come! In a grafic novel the grafic is an essential part of the composition, like the use of language is in a written novel. What would be left of Hemingway if his “manly” prose was like that of Margaret Mitchell’S “Gone With The Wind?”
Yet I understand your point of view. I would give so much if I could play the violin as beautiful as our “old man” in our folk dance group, but I recognice that my way of scratching fiddle hat it’s own beauty and expression. I hope you see the beauty in your art, too!
Btw. Although it’s your grafic style that pulls me into your comic, I like your setting and your storytelling very much, too. I would’nt bother with any work badly told in a lame setting. Thank you so much for sharing it with the rest of the world!
Don’t self depreciate too much. Honestly? I actually prefer your style over those 2 examples….
That and remember, art is only one facet of a visual story. I mean pages like this: http://www.waterphoenixking.com/comic/volume-01-page-13
It’s just glorious. Those words, the images which go with them… Well, I love them anyway ^_^