Christmas Wonderland [2]
THIS ONE represents yet another out-of-the-blue commission, typical of the sort of thing which has kept me busy for most of this calendar year of 2017.
A customer looked thru my visuals and felt I might be the right chappie to construct a festive image of his childhood memories of the old British IPC comics like WHIZZER and CHIPS , COR!! , Shiver and Shake, etc etc, which peaked from the late 60s to the mid-70s period especially.
Sure enough, a lot of the style I draw in today naturally springs [at least in part] from the apex of olden-style UK funnies-comics, : I never realized it at the time, but all that endless hours of poring over such material in childhood was subconciously being filed away in my memory banks for storage and future reference , without me even realizing it---I kid ye not!!
First time around, I most certainly preffered the more traditional comics fare from D C Thomson: IPC/ Fleetway were a more noticably 'chuck-everything-at-the-wall-and-some-of-it-will-surely-stick state of affairs, resulting in variable quality, but always well worth a look.
Today, I appreciate this golden era of now-vintage IPC comics which have today sadly completely vanished forever off the face of the Earth, other than for enthusiasts like me who actively track down this sort of stuff.
Anyway, here I was aiming for a very Mike Lacey-style ambience [Lacey was one of their top regular cartoonists, in my view ], and all I had to do was make sure I made this 'look IPC' without actually breaking any existing copyright laws.
I drew this in July, I seem to remember!
RAB L. RAUSER
A customer looked thru my visuals and felt I might be the right chappie to construct a festive image of his childhood memories of the old British IPC comics like WHIZZER and CHIPS , COR!! , Shiver and Shake, etc etc, which peaked from the late 60s to the mid-70s period especially.
Sure enough, a lot of the style I draw in today naturally springs [at least in part] from the apex of olden-style UK funnies-comics, : I never realized it at the time, but all that endless hours of poring over such material in childhood was subconciously being filed away in my memory banks for storage and future reference , without me even realizing it---I kid ye not!!
First time around, I most certainly preffered the more traditional comics fare from D C Thomson: IPC/ Fleetway were a more noticably 'chuck-everything-at-the-wall-and-some-of-it-will-surely-stick state of affairs, resulting in variable quality, but always well worth a look.
Today, I appreciate this golden era of now-vintage IPC comics which have today sadly completely vanished forever off the face of the Earth, other than for enthusiasts like me who actively track down this sort of stuff.
Anyway, here I was aiming for a very Mike Lacey-style ambience [Lacey was one of their top regular cartoonists, in my view ], and all I had to do was make sure I made this 'look IPC' without actually breaking any existing copyright laws.
I drew this in July, I seem to remember!
RAB L. RAUSER
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