Not Final Art (but Art nonetheless) – 2

On 18 June 2017 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, DELANO, Jamie, EISNER, Will, HARKHAM, Sammy, Japan, LLOYD, David, MAZZUCCHELLI, David, MILLER, Frank, NOT FINAL ART, Original Art, OTOMO, Katshuhiro, UK, USA, WARE, ChrisLeave a comment

Eisner - A Contract with God — “**A Contract with God**” (1978) by Will Eisner. USA. Original artwork.

Llloyd - The Horrorist 2 — “The Horrorist” (DC Comics, 1995-1996). Art by David Lloyd and script by Jamie Delano. UK (for American publisher) Original artwork.
Copyright ©2005 DC Comics

Otomo - Akira 2 — “**Akira**” (1982-1990) by Katsuhiro Otomo. Japan. Original artwork.

Harkham - Poor Sailor 2 — “**Poor Sailor**” (2003) by Sammy Harkham. USA. Original artwork.

Mazzucchelli - DD Born Again 230-14-18 — “**Daredevil: Born Again**” (Marvel Comics, 1986). Art by David Mazzucchelli and script by Frank Miller. USA. Original artwork.
Copyright ©1986 Marvel Comics

Ware - Building Stories — “**Building Stories**” (2012) by Chris Ware. USA. Original artwork. **LARGER SIZE OVER HERE**.

Not Final Art (but Art nonetheless) – 1

On 18 June 201718 June 2017 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics Books, France, Franco-Belgian Comics (Classic), Japan, JASON, KING, Frank, NILSEN, Anders, Norway, NOT FINAL ART, Original Art, OTOMO, Katshuhiro, SAINT-OGAN, Alain, TEZUKA, Osamu, USALeave a comment

Tezuka - Astro Boy — “**Astro Boy**” (1952-1968) by Osamu Tezuka. Japan. Original artwork.
Copyright © Tezuka Productions

Jakitou-25576 — “**Jakitou**” (1935) by Alain Saint-Ogan. France. Original artwork.

King Frank - Gasoline Alley — “**Gasoline Alley**” (25th of August 1925) by Frank King. USA. Original artwork. **LARGER SIZE OVER HERE**.

Nilsen - Big Questions 2 — “**Big Questions**” (Drawn & Quarterly, 1999-2011) by Anders Nilsen. USA (for Canadian publisher). Original artwork.
Copyright © Anders Nilsen/Drawn & Quarterly

Otomo - Akira 1 — “**Akira**” (1982-1990) by Katsuhiro Otomo. Japan. Original artwork.

Jason - Hey wait... — “**Hey Wait…**” (“Mjau Mjau” back cover, 1999) by Jason. Norway. Original artwork.
Copyright ©1999 Jason

“I Guess” by Chris Ware, USA, 1991

On 18 September 201619 September 2016 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, AesComm Theo, Rare/Classic Short Comics, RAW (anthology), Text/Image Tension, USA, WARE, Chris2 Comments

I Guess (a.k.a. “Thrilling Adventure Stories”) by Chris Ware (USA) in: RAW Vol 2, #3, High Culture for Lowbrows, Penguin Books, 1991. Via Glad You Asked.

If words can be drawn, and images written, then the tension between words and images can become quite complex. For example, in “I Guess” (Raw 2:3, 1991, reprinted in Ware, Quimby), alternative cartoonist Chris Ware experiments with a radically disjunctive form of verbal/visual interplay: a six-page story that sustains parallel verbal and pictorial narratives throughout, never quite reconciling one to the other […]. Admittedly, “I Guess” represents a radical questioning of the way comics work […]. Dismantling genre as well as form, Ware’s experiment demonstrates the potential of comics to create challenging, multilayered texts: his simple broadly representational drawings contribute to, rather than mitigate, the suggestive complexity of the narrative, while the blank naive narrational voice both amplifies and undercuts the appeal of the drawings. (Charles Hatfield, “Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature”, The University Press of Mississippi, 2005)

iguess — PAGE 1/6 (colour version, 2003)

“Brother John” (in French) by Jerome Charyn & André Juillard, USA/FR, 1990

On 3 July 20163 July 2016 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, Braiding, CHARYN, Jerome, Echo des Savanes, L' (magazine), France, Iconic Iteration, JUILLARD, André, Through Space Through Time, USALeave a comment

Brother John (in French), story by Jerome Charyn (USA) & art by André Juillard (FR), in: USA Magazine (L’Écho des savanes) spécial été #48/49, Albin Michel, FR, June 1990.

“Daddy’s Girl: Visitors in the Night” (first version) by Debbie Drechsler, USA, 1992

On 3 July 20163 July 2016 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, AesComm Theo, Canada, Drawn and Quarterly, Dream/Subconscious, DRECHSLER, Debbie, Imgt Comm, Psychic Trauma, USA2 Comments

Daddy’s Girl: Visitors in the Night (first version) by Debbie Drechsler (USA), in: Drawn & Quarterly (Anthology) Vol.1, #10, Drawn & Quarterly, CAN, 1992. The author’s first name “Debbie” was changed into “Lily” in the Daddy’s Girl collection (Fantagraphics Books, USA). More on the topic in our interview with Debbie Drechsler.

“Visitors in the Night” – or “Daddy’s Girl” as the book was eventually called – is a masterpiece of horror. And it’s all the more horrifying because it is true, and because the actions depicted, the innocence-killing, soul-destroying actions, are happening right now, everyday, all around the world. (Richard Sala, in XeroXed #4, July 2004)

Contains scenes of a sexual nature. Viewer discretion advised.

“Greyshirt: How Things Work Out” by Alan Moore & Rick Veitch, UK/USA, 1999

On 11 May 201611 May 2016 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, AesComm Theo, Building/Floor/Story, Creat Writ: Lesson 12, DC Comics, MOORE, Alan, Spirit (The), Through Space Through Time, UK, USA, VEITCH, RickLeave a comment

Greyshirt: How Things Work Out, script by Alan Moore (UK) and art by Rick Veitch (USA), in: Tomorrow Stories #2, Wildstorm Productions, America’s Best Comics imprint, USA, November 1999. The Greyshirt character is a pastiche of Will Eisner‘s The Spirit.

“In one of the Greyshirt stories in Tomorrow Stories, we did something very peculiar with the panel layouts. We had an apartment building, the same building, upon ever page. There are four horizontal panels on each page. Then, to add another element, we made it so that the top panels are all taking place in 1999, the second panel down on each page is taking place in 1979, the panel beneath that takes place in 1959, and on the bottom panel of each page, you’re seeing the bottom of the building as it was in 1939, when it was a fairly new building. We’re able to tell, by some quite complicated story gymnastics, quite an interesting little story that is told over nearly sixty years of this building’s life, with characters getting older depending upon which panel and which time period they’re in. There’s something that you couldn’t do in any medium other than comics.” Alan Moore (as cited on The Great Comic Book Heroes website), 2001.

Dear students, this story was later published in the collection Tomorrow Stories book 1 (soft cover) by DC Comics.

Grey 10 — PAGE 1/8 (and cover of “Tomorrow Stories” #2)

Grey 14 — PAGE 8/8 (along original artwork)

“Big Tex” by Chris Ware, USA, 1996

On 5 May 201628 January 2020 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, AesComm Theo, Fantagraphics Books, Rare/Classic Short Comics, Through Space Through Time, USA, WARE, Chris4 Comments

Big Tex (one-pager) by Chris Ware (USA) in: Acme Novelty Library Vol VII, #7, Book of Jokes, Fantagraphics Books, Summer 1996.

“Like how does something happen, and … how does it reverberate through time? And that act of memory is important, and comics are great for memory. Like even when you have a short comic, like a three-panel comic, you’ve got a past, a present and a future as soon as you look at those three boxes. And that allows you to reflect and compare times.” Art Spiegelman, NPR interview, 2011

“Looking for Nemo” by Benoît Peeters & François Schuiten, JP/BE/FR, 1991

On 5 May 20165 May 2016 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, AesComm Theo, Belgium, France, Japan, Little Nemo, Onomatopoeia, PEETERS, Benoît, Rare/Classic Short Comics, SCHUITEN, FrançoisLeave a comment

Looking for Nemo, tribute to Winsor McCay (and Little Nemo), script by Benoît Peeters (FR) and art by François Schuiten (BE) in: Morning magazine, Japan, 1991. English edition followed by French publication, 1996 (for colour quality’s sake).

“Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.” Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulary for a New Urbanism, 1953.

Hommage Nemo 1996 — PAGE 1/2 (French version)

Hommage Nemo 1991 — PAGE 2/2 (French version)

“Sin City: Silent Night” by Frank Miller, USA, 1995

On 3 May 20167 May 2016 By Nicolas VerstappenIn 1990s, Dark Horse, MILLER, Frank, PRATT, Hugo, Rare/Classic Short Comics, Silent (or almost), Sin City, USALeave a comment

Sin City: Silent Night by Frank Miller (USA) in: Sin City: Silent Night, Dark Horse, November 1995. This short story is dedicated by Frank Miller to Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt. Re-published in Booze, Broads, & Bullets, Dark Horse.

Dear students, Sin City: Booze, Babes, and Bullets is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.

“Sin City: The Customer Is Always Right” by Frank Miller, USA, 1994

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Sin City: The Customer Is Always Right by Frank Miller (USA) in: Sin City: The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories, Dark Horse, USA, November 1994. Re-published in the collection Booze, Babes, and Bullets, Dark Horse.

Dear students, Sin City: Booze, Babes, and Bullets is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.

became the opening scene of starring

The short story “served as the opening sequence for the movie adaptation SIN CITY (directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller in 2005), which featured Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton. The sequence served as the original proof of concept footage that director Robert Rodriguez filmed to convince Frank Miller to allow him to adapt Sin City to the silver screen (source)” Watch the film sequence HERE.

joshua-hartnett-and-sin-city-gallery — Film still from the opening sequence for the movie adaptation **Sin City**, which featured Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton.

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