Distressed Dragon
Okay, here it is lettered and with the old-timey comic distressing.
I came up with this story on a long, lonely car ride home from a comic convention. I wanted to do something overtly Kirbyesque. I originally thought of doing a story that had art and coloring like Kirby’s Gods portfolio and NFL drawings. Something really day-glo, illustrative, tonal, and cosmic-absurdist. I just couldn’t come up with a story that really interested me.
Then I thought about boiling the experience of a seventies Kirby comic down to its essence. To me it’s the splash page, the double-splash, and the quick, compressed ending. Four pages, that’s it. The similarity between Dragon’s and OMAC’s silhouette sent me down a certain road which led me to a bunch of different associations and imagery.
Very cool, Tom. Digging the Kirby riff. I really like the temple page from an earlier post too.
An old classic comic indeed. It reminds me of The Incredible Hulk actually 🙂
Cool look. The oversized mohawk fin is a nice touch. I once had two early edition (3 and 4) original jack the ripper comics that I misplaced as a young boy. Doh!
You are an amazing artist. Keep it up man.