1989, part Eleven
SEEN BELOW is a typical example of the sort of thing I used to draw in the days before I switched over to creating characters all on my own: in the days when the British comics scene was thriving, [remember THAT?!] artists who were good at copying established styles---or 'ghosting'-------could fairly easily pick up work putting out carbon-copy versions of already-famous characters.
It was an approach I never especially enjoyed, I found it very restricting, however getting paid work in any form through cartooning was certainly a lot better than finding nothing.
I have left the original rough pencil lines here, as such an old drawing is probably best left 'as is'. I have added in some nominal color, however.........
I have been looking through decades of BEANO material recently, and that 50s-early 70s period especially was truly Magnifique!
The rot started to set in long after the departure of Baxendale and Ron Spencer [the early artists on LITTLE PLUM]: the BEANO is still well worth a look of course, but it has mutated into something very different nowadays.
BECHEEBERS! -----Why is it so many cartoonists---even really good ones---always just draw characters just standing around pointing their fingers at nothing in particular? You see this cop-out all the time, even in DISNEY stuff! Beecheebers, I do it meself----top o' the mornin' to ye!!
LITTLE PLUM and CHIEFY characters are COPYRIGHT of D C THOMSON Co Ltd, 2016.
It was an approach I never especially enjoyed, I found it very restricting, however getting paid work in any form through cartooning was certainly a lot better than finding nothing.
I have left the original rough pencil lines here, as such an old drawing is probably best left 'as is'. I have added in some nominal color, however.........
I have been looking through decades of BEANO material recently, and that 50s-early 70s period especially was truly Magnifique!
The rot started to set in long after the departure of Baxendale and Ron Spencer [the early artists on LITTLE PLUM]: the BEANO is still well worth a look of course, but it has mutated into something very different nowadays.
BECHEEBERS! -----Why is it so many cartoonists---even really good ones---always just draw characters just standing around pointing their fingers at nothing in particular? You see this cop-out all the time, even in DISNEY stuff! Beecheebers, I do it meself----top o' the mornin' to ye!!
LITTLE PLUM and CHIEFY characters are COPYRIGHT of D C THOMSON Co Ltd, 2016.
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