Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Current Inspiration: The Red Star

So, I was digging through my comics for inspirational material to feed my muse, and I found one book that was particularly interesting, that reminded me of the storytelling style I use with End Times: The Red Star. The compositional structure and storytelling structure is similar not only to my comics, but my illustrations themselves. Mine don't look as pretty as The Red Star, but the approach and flow of the competition is similar, where images jump off the page, and they're so big and colossal they can barely be contained by more than 1 to 2 or 4 panels a page. But I love the "Give yourself some personal space and don't conform to that crappy "tiny panel structure" that's all the rage in comics and manga these days. I HATE Small art, and I HATE small comics. I also really, REALLY HATE most overtly small or miniature panels. They look so crappy, like the artist never bothered to outgrow the thumbnail and storyboard stage. Needless to say I'll be buying more copies and books of this The Red Star series, in hopes to get a better sense of how it tells and narrates its stories, in an "Adult Storybook 'Only One Image or a small bit Per Page' Style". 

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