Postage smiley...
Categories: artwork
Tags: comics, and another thing
Date: 09 February 2009 11:18:07
I have a slightly strange postman. He's got a bet on with someone that he will wear shorts on his round without fail longer than the other guy and this has been going on for a long time now, years in fact. So last week we had a chat, on the doorstep, while he passed over a parcel in the bleak mid snowy winter. In shorts. Strange. Aaanyhow, eeking out my Christmas money as I have a package arrived for me today that evoked many smiles:
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Years ago I was way into comics and primarily 2000ad. At the time I was primarily into artists like Ian Gibson (then my favourite and purveyor of many classic images), McMahon, Kennedy, O'Neil and many others. Bolland was less on my radar, as was Ron Smith, yet, as I grow older (sigh) I realise that technically they were among the best that the comic had to offer...
Gibson's still probably my favourite if I had to vote one way or another but Brian Bolland's fabulous artwork, layout and shading is the work I would choose to use as a teaching resource when I do comic art with the kids. This image adorned a paper bag I received when going to a comic signing of which Gibson was the brightest star on show. Funnily enough, apart from the que and upsetting Nemesis artist Bryan Talbot by mistaking him for O'Neil (hey, I was very young at the time) the thing I remember was getting the bag and thinking it was the very best thing ever, more so than some of the contents I bought at the time. Thinking about it now I have no idea where the cherished Gibson autograph is yet I know exactly where the bag is. Strange....
Aaaanyhow: Forbidden Planet - the shop - was selling canvasses of the print, signed, for £80 and it was the hardest thing to not buy one. The size was the dealbreaker and the knowledge that it would not help my son to see it on a wall somewhere as he deals in images in a different way than I can understand really (yet another autistic trait I can barely get my head around) but I DID buy the t-shirt and am, indeed, wearing it now :)
So um, yay. Geek credentials ensured I go to teacher training in an hour or so with a smile on my face knowing that my t-shirt is enthused even if I am not, in the class at least...
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Years ago I was way into comics and primarily 2000ad. At the time I was primarily into artists like Ian Gibson (then my favourite and purveyor of many classic images), McMahon, Kennedy, O'Neil and many others. Bolland was less on my radar, as was Ron Smith, yet, as I grow older (sigh) I realise that technically they were among the best that the comic had to offer...
Gibson's still probably my favourite if I had to vote one way or another but Brian Bolland's fabulous artwork, layout and shading is the work I would choose to use as a teaching resource when I do comic art with the kids. This image adorned a paper bag I received when going to a comic signing of which Gibson was the brightest star on show. Funnily enough, apart from the que and upsetting Nemesis artist Bryan Talbot by mistaking him for O'Neil (hey, I was very young at the time) the thing I remember was getting the bag and thinking it was the very best thing ever, more so than some of the contents I bought at the time. Thinking about it now I have no idea where the cherished Gibson autograph is yet I know exactly where the bag is. Strange....
Aaaanyhow: Forbidden Planet - the shop - was selling canvasses of the print, signed, for £80 and it was the hardest thing to not buy one. The size was the dealbreaker and the knowledge that it would not help my son to see it on a wall somewhere as he deals in images in a different way than I can understand really (yet another autistic trait I can barely get my head around) but I DID buy the t-shirt and am, indeed, wearing it now :)
So um, yay. Geek credentials ensured I go to teacher training in an hour or so with a smile on my face knowing that my t-shirt is enthused even if I am not, in the class at least...