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  • May. 6th, 2008 at 12:41 PM

The period where PRYDERI was improving in leaps and bounds was also the period I was working up some proposals for DC Comics: most memorably, Superman and Swamp Thing. (I also did a six-page Sandman story I still have).

The Superman art suffered from the transition I was making from a style with a notable Perez influence to an even more notable style influenced by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben.

The piece below was drawn two years after PRYDERI #1, and only about three years before the recycled Silas Marner pages that became the center of STARCHILD #1.

Twenty years ago, going on the date at the bottom.

Yesterday, going by how I feel looking at it.

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[info]redksu25 wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 07:55 pm (UTC)
cool drawing!!impressing..
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[info]coppervale wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 07:56 pm (UTC)
Thank you!

I've started doing some sketches for your drawing... ;)
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[info]redksu25 wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 08:51 pm (UTC)
I'm waiting!!))
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[info]allykatt wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 08:02 pm (UTC)
ahhh, 1988 ... it was a good year.

you're making me nostalgic for my art from back then, wherever it may be...
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[info]coppervale wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 08:04 pm (UTC)
It WAS a good year....
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[info]klwilliams wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 08:42 pm (UTC)
That's a great Swamp Thing.
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[info]coppervale wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 08:44 pm (UTC)
Thanks! It would have been a fun book to do, I think...
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[info]adeluca wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 10:54 pm (UTC)
Beautiful,

In some ways, a bit like what you're doing now, in other ways, totally different. Still, it's unmistakably you that did this art.

Kind of makes me crave a big dish of pasta. . . with veggies. . . while listening to a Kansas album.

Alex
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[info]dadiceguy wrote:
May. 6th, 2008 11:29 pm (UTC)
Wow. I really like that. Thanks for sharing.
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[info]scribblerworks wrote:
May. 7th, 2008 12:04 am (UTC)
Interesting to see something that is "different, but... the same". Heh. Different certainly in some stylistic selections (like all those solid blacks), and yet "the same" in that it does indeed have the feel of your hand on it.

Nice.
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