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by Lorenzo » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:08 am
Hey Prankster! I think Hot Rod Honey's in the illustration thread somewhere! Or you can check it out on our site!
This is an interesting point about the style. What I guess a lot of you guys in the US see as the "Flight Style" (as you put it) to me is really a style of drawing comics which has been around in Europe for about 50 years or so. It's all centered around a more cartooney approach to characters and environments which is still based on a lot of anatomical and real world study. Go into any book store in Europe and you'll see hundreds of amazing quality bande desinée with some of the most incredible art you'll ever come across. In particular, check out Ring Circuis, Sky Doll, Navitee, Spoon and White, Asterix, Lucky Luke or Wonder City etc to get an idea of what I'm talking about, and prepare to be blown away! The progress of computer colouring/inking etc and the influence of anime has certainly moved this foward, but the key elements of draftsmanship, line and storytelling were put in place by guys like Uderzo around the early 50's.
You're totally right though, the Flight guys are certainly rocking the whole style in a new direction, and have managed to open alot of people's eyes to it in the US who have probably never even seen the European stuff, and that's a really good thing, as I grew up on these type of comics, and I love 'em all!
Thanks for your post, pal!
Lorenzo!
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Lorenzo on Wed May 24, 2006 3:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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