Comic-Strip Jamboree

HERE IS THE SECOND EXAMPLE  of a comic-strip I have taken over for the Spanish Market, compleat with exotic [by our standards] Latino lettering in the word balloons.

After losing interest somewhat in comics strips----seemingly forever------I accepted some out-of-the-blue commissions from interested parties.

This strip had been running for four years before I came along, and so understandably, I have to adhere to existing templates struck by others: not a method of working I actually enjoy,  but I am willing to go along with this if it provides work---and why not, as Barry Norman used to ask.

I had to make a few alterations digitally on this one, but we have sorted it all out now, and future endevors will be more plotted out in advance with rough drafts being submitted for approval first, in order to save me having to alter a lot of the elements later on.

A WORD ON THE TECHNIQUE USED:

This example screened below is something of a 'first' for me, as I have drawn the characters and set them into backgrounds designed by others: this is real collaboration stuff, and brand new territory I am breaching.

The coloring method used gives a sort of airbrushed or gouache look to the characters, which is a million miles removed from the inkings I used to do for D C Thomson in the mid-late 80s.

SCRIPT NOT WRITTEN BY ME

RAB L RAUSER