THE FLY: Boozin' Buddies
THE FLY cartoon imagery easily produces the most striking visuals from any of my various fantasy concepts: it's incredibly strange, very bizarre character stuff that provides seemingly endless scope for absurdist escapism and mayhem.
I certainly needed something containing 'hard science-fiction' to provide an outlet for such material; BABY BOOMER provides a very handy outlet for most of my fantasy-themed requirements, but trial-and-error experiments on that project never really worked out too well when I tried out sci-fi themes within that format.
I have actually managed to get 'character' stuff into this very odd material [as is evident here] : the two mutants seem to be getting along just swell, going by the 'beer sharing' scenario seen here.
This close-up view strikes me [after completing the cartoon] as being inspired by---of all people---the legendary Dudley D Watkins, in the effective close-ups he often did of Tom Thumb in the 1960s BIMBO nursery comic---although I doubt if old Watty ever would have been inclined, or instructed, to come up with bizarre characters like mine, as seen here.
One last thing: why is a striped drinking straw more funny than a plain white one?
----I don't know; it just is!
Note also the 'Scottish-ism' of the SOOK! sound-effect; more atune with the Broons and Oor Wullie than what I am doing here............
Lots more FLY material is ready for inclusion; these will be staggered over time, interspersed with my other themes.
Plate One: the finished item, all done on a single A4 sheet
Plate Two: the original ballpoint-pen sketch before Gimp-ification.
I certainly needed something containing 'hard science-fiction' to provide an outlet for such material; BABY BOOMER provides a very handy outlet for most of my fantasy-themed requirements, but trial-and-error experiments on that project never really worked out too well when I tried out sci-fi themes within that format.
I have actually managed to get 'character' stuff into this very odd material [as is evident here] : the two mutants seem to be getting along just swell, going by the 'beer sharing' scenario seen here.
This close-up view strikes me [after completing the cartoon] as being inspired by---of all people---the legendary Dudley D Watkins, in the effective close-ups he often did of Tom Thumb in the 1960s BIMBO nursery comic---although I doubt if old Watty ever would have been inclined, or instructed, to come up with bizarre characters like mine, as seen here.
One last thing: why is a striped drinking straw more funny than a plain white one?
----I don't know; it just is!
Note also the 'Scottish-ism' of the SOOK! sound-effect; more atune with the Broons and Oor Wullie than what I am doing here............
Lots more FLY material is ready for inclusion; these will be staggered over time, interspersed with my other themes.
Plate One: the finished item, all done on a single A4 sheet
Plate Two: the original ballpoint-pen sketch before Gimp-ification.
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