Lee O'Connor (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} leeoconnor) wrote,@ 2007-02-22 20:57:00 |
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"If only we had someone with the powers of jungle creatures!"
I forgot about this - it's a photie from the Birmingham Comics Show (Or, "Brumcon", to you and me) last year. With the apparent 70th anniversary of pulp costumed adventurer The Phantom, the organisers came up with the idea of putting up some big, blank boards for people to draw on, so they could assemble 70 drawings of The Phant' in honour of his 70 crusty years.
First up was Marvel's Staz Johnson, who supplied a great starting point (on the far right of the picture), which then ended up looking a bit lonely for a day or so in the middle of a huge load of white boards, until people gradually cottoned on that that was as far as it had been planned. Under the cover of darkness, confident they weren't going to get a hand-slapping, groups of small press artists descended on the locale to scribble their own Ghosts who Walk'd down, including myself and the incomparable Al Ewing.
He had this magic (or something) ring, The Phantom, y'see, that let him into his secret jungle cave lair, as I learnt from watching bad cartoons in the '80's and mid-'90's. So that's where the thought behind this one came from.
(Looking at it now, I shaded his upper arm wrong, consarn it!)
Oh, and anybody who correctly identifies the quote in the title of this post gets a free sketch. :)
I forgot about this - it's a photie from the Birmingham Comics Show (Or, "Brumcon", to you and me) last year. With the apparent 70th anniversary of pulp costumed adventurer The Phantom, the organisers came up with the idea of putting up some big, blank boards for people to draw on, so they could assemble 70 drawings of The Phant' in honour of his 70 crusty years.
First up was Marvel's Staz Johnson, who supplied a great starting point (on the far right of the picture), which then ended up looking a bit lonely for a day or so in the middle of a huge load of white boards, until people gradually cottoned on that that was as far as it had been planned. Under the cover of darkness, confident they weren't going to get a hand-slapping, groups of small press artists descended on the locale to scribble their own Ghosts who Walk'd down, including myself and the incomparable Al Ewing.
He had this magic (or something) ring, The Phantom, y'see, that let him into his secret jungle cave lair, as I learnt from watching bad cartoons in the '80's and mid-'90's. So that's where the thought behind this one came from.
(Looking at it now, I shaded his upper arm wrong, consarn it!)
Oh, and anybody who correctly identifies the quote in the title of this post gets a free sketch. :)
