Revisiting these works take me to at least two painful conclusions:
1 – Twenty three years later, my drawings are still as bad.
2- My god! Time flies!
jueves, 3 de diciembre de 2009
FIRST STORY
Searching through the hundreds of Tom & Jerry stories i draw, i just found the first one, for CONDOR VERLAG (1987). I hope you don’t get too mad with your criticism; it’s obvious those pages show my insecurity and short knowledge of the genre at that time. I had little control of the drawing, the characters and the scene set up, but still I managed to produce stories like this one. I took HARVEY EISENBERG’s and other author’s works whose names I still don’t know (yes, I’m ashamed, I know), and somehow I managed to shape the script I poorly designed days before. Probably due to that insecurity I decided, ha ha, to work in a gigantic page format. It is known that is harder to work in a big format than in a smaller page. It’s harder to compose the scene and have a general overview of the page development. Still, I started to work in a ridiculous 60x42 cm format. How foolish! :D. Every half page was a DIN A3 on landscape layout. Completely unnecessary and unjustified, but hey, that was it. One of my main obsessions was to be faithful and closer as possible to the Cartoon spirit, especially to the wonderful shortcuts produced by FRED QUIMBY in the forties and the fifties. A slam or two per page was meant to guarantee a good rhythm in the stories… or so I thought, and so I did.
Revisiting these works take me to at least two painful conclusions:
1 – Twenty three years later, my drawings are still as bad.
2- My god! Time flies!
Revisiting these works take me to at least two painful conclusions:
1 – Twenty three years later, my drawings are still as bad.
2- My god! Time flies!
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ResponderEliminarNice blog! Just wondering, by the way: Are you still doing new Tom and Jerry stories? I live in Norway, and for many, many years (from the late 80s until 2005 or something), our Tom and Jerry magazine regularly included a new opening story written and drawn by you. Then suddenly, the new stories were by different artists whose drawings did not at all have the same cartoony energy as yours. (That's about the time we stopped buying the Tom and Jerry magazine;) So, just curious as to whether or not you're still working on Tom and Jerry.
ResponderEliminarHa, HA! A lot has happened in recent years. At present continuous drawing of T & J stories, I never really stopped. Sometimes they have been collaborators, friends, and sometimes ... other people. HA, HA! No doubt I am the most senior person drawing T & J but I do not have a monopoly, fortunately.
ResponderEliminarThanks for your words.
Cheers.