The FLY Papers: [2]:
HERE WE SEE the second-ever FLY sketch I done, another quick drawing I churned out in a few minutes.
This is still a long way short of what the FLY looks like today, but this one is an improvement on the very first sketch, and it points ahead to the Fly-Man character as he looks nowadays.
The Teleporter reference would perhaps be lost on some readers:
'What the Hells' a TELEPORTER?'
----so the reader really needs a wee bit of knowledge on 50s sci-fi films.
Anyway, I started up a thread about my new sketches and added them onto a cartoon site we shall call
MAGGIE THATCHERS' STARCHED UNDIES:
and the comments starting coming in: the early ones I remember were weak attempts at sarcasm, the details of which I long forget, which was not nearly enough to deter me from drawing. [nobody has EVER managed to deter me from drawing]
This other cartoonist came on with his comments -------he was a gag cartoonist for the satire mags, who done color gags and I liked his stuff, and I told him so. His comments were along the lines of:
Your drawings are good Robert, but your ideas are weak.
---Fair enough if that is what this chap believed, however in all honesty, I do not think his published ideas are really any better than my TELEPORTER gag seen here: and he is an experienced gagster, unlike me, who was just mucking about, trying things out.
I seen some of this guys' comments about me some time back on the STARCHED UNDIES site and I am afraid this same guy is one of a small core who was deluded I was accusing others of 'copying my drawing style': signs of an unfortunate pack-mob instinct, one of the more unhealthy symptoms that infected this sorry site.
However although I do not think of this particular cartoonist in quite the same way since, I have to state that I do actually like his drawing style, and would be interested in seeing more of his pretty good work.
Cartooning is a really tough business with less and less opportunities for regular professional paid work; but often, there does not seem to be a great deal of Solidarity between rival cartoonists: it is a case of 'every Man for himself,' and' take out' the opposition: [ie: other potentially good cartoonists, who could steal your thunder]---not in every case of course, but certainly enough to tarnish the Industry---this is certainly one unpleasant aspect of human nature unearthed by the Internet.
MORE EARLY-PERIOD FLY SKETCHES ON THE WAY, even if they only date from 2014!
seen here below: the tarted up version of the early sketch, with improved layout, along with the core original.
This is still a long way short of what the FLY looks like today, but this one is an improvement on the very first sketch, and it points ahead to the Fly-Man character as he looks nowadays.
The Teleporter reference would perhaps be lost on some readers:
'What the Hells' a TELEPORTER?'
----so the reader really needs a wee bit of knowledge on 50s sci-fi films.
Anyway, I started up a thread about my new sketches and added them onto a cartoon site we shall call
MAGGIE THATCHERS' STARCHED UNDIES:
and the comments starting coming in: the early ones I remember were weak attempts at sarcasm, the details of which I long forget, which was not nearly enough to deter me from drawing. [nobody has EVER managed to deter me from drawing]
This other cartoonist came on with his comments -------he was a gag cartoonist for the satire mags, who done color gags and I liked his stuff, and I told him so. His comments were along the lines of:
Your drawings are good Robert, but your ideas are weak.
---Fair enough if that is what this chap believed, however in all honesty, I do not think his published ideas are really any better than my TELEPORTER gag seen here: and he is an experienced gagster, unlike me, who was just mucking about, trying things out.
I seen some of this guys' comments about me some time back on the STARCHED UNDIES site and I am afraid this same guy is one of a small core who was deluded I was accusing others of 'copying my drawing style': signs of an unfortunate pack-mob instinct, one of the more unhealthy symptoms that infected this sorry site.
However although I do not think of this particular cartoonist in quite the same way since, I have to state that I do actually like his drawing style, and would be interested in seeing more of his pretty good work.
Cartooning is a really tough business with less and less opportunities for regular professional paid work; but often, there does not seem to be a great deal of Solidarity between rival cartoonists: it is a case of 'every Man for himself,' and' take out' the opposition: [ie: other potentially good cartoonists, who could steal your thunder]---not in every case of course, but certainly enough to tarnish the Industry---this is certainly one unpleasant aspect of human nature unearthed by the Internet.
MORE EARLY-PERIOD FLY SKETCHES ON THE WAY, even if they only date from 2014!
seen here below: the tarted up version of the early sketch, with improved layout, along with the core original.
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