The Saudi Connection [2]

I AM ADDING IN --one-at-a-time-----the frames I done for a Saudi Arabian comic strip a few weeks back [around April 2017, in case you are a future Smithonian  Historian reading this [!]

The strip was originally mooted to be rendered in basic black and white, but as is customary in these things, my insistence on Lavish Production Values took grip, and I ended up forging relatively elaborate cartoon scenarios.

The design of the kid characters [this was so new, we never even had names for them when I was doing this] are probably inspired by the style of Robert Nixon, one of the best comics-funnies artists Britain ever produced, to me at any rate.

The overall ambience is somewhat reminiscent of the old Fleischer Popeye the Sailor animated cartoons, and indeed this was the approach I set out to achieve when I started taking up this lark pretty seriously:  it is only fairly recently I acquired the know-how---and the domestic technology---to be able to put these suckers together in the way you see here.

Although this piece looks very much like an ANIMATED CEL-CARTOON-like drawing,

I can assure you this all was all done using basic quality laser-copier paper [three separate sheets in this case]

More of these later---I am putting the story up in sequence, natch.

RAB L RAUSER