tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16409179086910531402024-03-05T07:52:21.687-08:00The Intercorstalgrthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-50043360880419169872015-09-09T05:03:00.003-07:002015-09-09T05:03:33.248-07:00The Intercorstal Dot Com(quiet, mysterious voice): Go to <a href="http://intercorstal.com/">intercorstal.com</a><br />
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(conspiratorially) That's where the good stuff is.<br />
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(eyes darting side to side) I mean, it's the same stuff that's on this blog, mostly...<br />
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(skulking back into the shadows) ...but you don't have to scroll through to find it, it's all laid out nice.<br />
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(whispering) You heard: <a href="http://intercorstal.com/">intercorstal.com</a>grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-660370384287867432015-07-03T06:45:00.001-07:002015-07-03T06:45:30.611-07:00Intercorstal Dungeon FunBecause I'm waiting for paper and markers to be delivered so I can work on 'After Smith', and because I fancied a quick break from '683' and because I just really, really like <a href="http://dogoodercomics.co.uk/dungeonfun">Dungeon Fun</a>, I did this Intercorstal page based on one of my favourite pages from Book 2.<br />
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Here's a photo of the page before I scanned it, alongside the original comic (written by Colin Bell, illustrated by Neil Slorance).</div>
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Dungeon Fun's fourth and final part has just been released -- you can buy them all at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/artbyneilslorance?ref=em">Neil Slorance's Etsy store</a>.</div>
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grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-67057863028865399712015-06-12T05:37:00.003-07:002015-06-12T05:37:40.027-07:00Preliminary work ups for 'Intercorstal: After Smith'The Intercorstal: After Smith will be a series of work reinterpreting comic pages originally scripted by the writer John Smith. More details can be found here: <a href="http://garethahopkins.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/intercorstal-after-smith.html">http://garethahopkins.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/intercorstal-after-smith.html</a><br />
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The final Intercorstal pages for this project will be A3, but as prep, and to make sure that my ideas would work, I completed two at A4. One is a reworking of a page from Killing Time, orginally by Chris Weston, the other is a reworking of a page from Still Life, by Sean Phillips. Comparisons of these pages versus the original pages can be found at the above link.<br />
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<br />grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-4840243158023652142015-05-05T05:59:00.001-07:002015-07-02T05:01:20.439-07:00Goodbye "Intercorstal 2", Hello "683"The Intercorstal moves very much in phases, and in a way is a set of smaller projects interconnected by a style and intention. And the phase that had been called 'Intercorstal 2' came to a close, unexpectedly, with <a href="http://intercorstal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/intercorstal-2-page-34.html">page 34</a>. I hadn't realised that was the last page until I'd started work on the first page of the next phase/project.<br />
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Page 34 couldn't have been a more appropriate place to finish, really. It's a recreation of the last page of Revere Book 2, where the main character reaches the end of that phase of his journey and throws himself off the roof of a car park, to be reborn at the beginning of Book 3. That my recreation was more faithful than my ripped pages had been previously probably says something too, albeit a completely unconscious decision.<br />
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And so on to what's next: "The Intercorstal: 683" which for the time being I'm keeping a little closer to my chest, certainly not rushing to share every single page as it's finished. I'm actually hoping to wait until all 36 pages are finished before I pull the curtain back, so this blog will go even quieter than it normally would be.<br />
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And who knows how long for -- what '683' has which was missing from '2' is a distinct direction, so in that respect progress should be more routine, and faster. But at the same I've got a pretty hefty amount of work to do in time for an exhibition with <a href="http://www.kulturbuero-bremen.de/">Projectroom 404</a> in Bremen in September, as well as working on a new entry for the <a href="http://www.comicartfestival.com/index.php/windows-trail">Lakes Comic Art Fest Windows Trail</a>, plus the totally different <a href="http://crosbyandsyd.com/">Crosby and Syd</a>, as well as other bits and bobs. Oh, and a full time job, and two children, and a wife.<br />
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But I've got three pages of 683 pages finished and scanned already, and if I manage to maintain that pace I'll be finished this year, at least.<br />
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Here's what I've got so far:<br />
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See you in a few months.grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-5411583622263582282015-04-23T05:51:00.002-07:002015-04-23T07:16:22.078-07:00What I mean by 'Steal' when I say I've 'Stolen' a page for The Intercorstal<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Intercorstal has always been a way of exploring the language of comics via non-narrative, non-figurative methods. In the early days, there were figurative elements built in, as I was also trying to create a world-on-the-edge-of-perception, and came up with an internal narrative which featured mangled faces, all sorts of eyes and teeth, as well as a main character who appeared on nearly every page. As I worked on the project, and found new ways of working the need for that became less and less important, until finally I started 'The Intercorstal 2' which did away with a lot of that and is more consistent as a result. Granted, early pages still retained some of those elements (if you get into the habit of hiding pictures of eyes and teeth in everything you draw, it becomes quite difficult to stop...) but they're nearly all gone now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The process of creating pages for the Intercorstal 2 falls into two types of activity. The first, most common, is for me to build a set of frames for the layout and then draw into those. I'll often take inspiration from what I've been reading (Pages <a href="http://intercorstal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/intercorstal-2-page-27.html">27</a>, <a href="http://intercorstal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/intercorstal-2-page-28.html">28</a> and <a href="http://intercorstal.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/intercorstal-2-page-29.html">29</a> were all done immediately after reading <a href="http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/">Bill Sienkiewicz's</a> Stray Toasters, and were very much inspired by it) but it's all my 'own work', as it were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The second method is to find an existing comic page that I find particularly interesting, or am particularly passionate about, and copy the layout of the panels and the broad shape of objects or movement in the panels, and then use those to inform my work. The extent, following this, that the Intercorstal pages look like their 'parent' pages varies -- sometimes the relationship is very clear, and sometimes it's vastly different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Working like this provides a wide range of benefits. For a start, it's an easy way to break through whatever creative block I'm suffering at the time. Past that, though, it helps me to really explore how the page is constructed, whether there's a hidden narrative in the layout and movement of the page ('the page under the page'), and what it is that makes those comic pages speak to me, as well as the broader audience. It also serves to connect people to The Intercorstal in a way that the first method of producing pages doesn't. Being able to show someone a page and then let them compare it to something that already exists takes away some of the work they need to do to see what I'm trying to accomplish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is a screengrab from a document I'm keeping which keeps track of where I've based an Intercorstal page on another creator's work, for reference. And I'm more than happy to respond to any questions that might arise from my work -- this blog is an attempt to answer questions already raised. Email or comments or whatever.</span><br />
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grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-41510615022744384542015-04-23T04:54:00.002-07:002015-04-23T04:54:40.771-07:00Intercorstal 2 Page 34<br />
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Page 34 of Intercorstal 2 is based on the last page of Revere Book II Written in Water, art by Simon Harrison and written by John Smith. A photo of the page as it was reprinted in <a href="http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/extreme_editions_issue_20">2000AD Extreme Edition 20</a> (which I strongly recommend you buy) is below.</div>
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<br />grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-87729112770842539282015-04-22T09:37:00.003-07:002015-04-22T09:37:30.280-07:00Intercorstal 2 Page 33<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Page 33 is an interpretation of Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles: Primordial, Page 6. Original art by Simon Davis, written by Pat Mills. A (kind of rubbish) photo of the original page as it appeared in 2000AD is below.</div>
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<br />grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-72331730616484879462015-04-20T05:36:00.000-07:002015-04-20T05:36:27.582-07:00Intercorstal 2 Page 32<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Based on a page from The Uncanny X-Men 159, Page 17, written by Chris Claremont and pencilled by Dave Cockrum.</div>
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<br />grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-64076045820142108472015-02-12T06:10:00.001-08:002015-02-12T06:10:33.679-08:00Intercorstal 2 Page 29<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Page 29 is a re-Intercorstal of Page 27, in that I took the layout and fundemental shapes of Page 27 and re-did them. I'll likely do this to a few more pages, in an effort to make the entire Intercorstal 2 project more cohesive.</div>
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Page 26, which is based on the first page of Judge Dredd: America, written by John Wagner, with art by Colin MacNeil.</div>
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In September, I created an <a href="http://intercorstal.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/off-life-10-submission.html">Intercorstal page for submission</a> to <a href="http://offlife.co.uk/">Offlife</a> magazine, which was kind of understandably passed on, considering it's nothing at all like the type of comic they print.</div>
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Not long after I finished that page (which because of submission guidelines had different dimensions to the Intercorstal 2 pages I'd been working on) I started this page, working from the layouts to Page 5 of Amazing Spider-man #32. I let it rest for a while, but picked it up again a few days ago and finished it off.</div>
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This is the raw, uncropped image. A finished version, with words on, <a href="http://garethahopkins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/submission-to-offlife-10.html">can be found here.</a>grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-61795267478576934042014-07-03T05:59:00.000-07:002014-07-03T05:59:32.727-07:00Intercorstal 2, Page 23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I worked on this in bits and pieces since the first week of May, and finished it today -- it's the first week of July now, so it took 2months. Probably not the longest page to do so far, but by no means the quickest.<br />
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I'm getting there. A few more pages to go...grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-73276478274377316822014-05-08T05:11:00.001-07:002014-05-08T05:12:21.234-07:00Intercorstal 2 Page 22 - scan, final, source details<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's Intercorstal 2 Page 22. This page was based on/inspired by layouts and content in a page for X-Force #116 by Mike Allred, which was written by Peter Milligan. I've also included an image from the original page -- would have posted a photo of the whole page but a certain horror movie director has my copy right now.<br />
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I chose this page to work on for a few reasons. The first of which is to pay homage to a comic that was really important to me. I'd read X-Force in my teens, but wasn't aware of it at all during my break from comics in the 2000's. I was visiting a friend and he had the hardback trade of Milligan/Allred's X-Force run, collecting their work up to the point the title changed to 'X-Statix'. I asked about it, and he said "oh, it's the X-Men book where everyone gets killed, you can borrow it if you want". And reading it brought me back around to comics really, the gateway drug to where I am now. What had turned me away from comics at the tail-end of the 90s was how po-faced and serious they'd gotten, feigning emotional depth and making sure that everything was 'gritty' and 'grown up'. Milligan and Allred threw all that out, and the resulting pop-culture satire was gleefully delivered while still delivering a real emotional punch with the death of a leading character at the end of the book, despite having otherwise trivialised superhero death up until that point (it's a few years on now, but you won't be getting spoilerised by me).<br />
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The other reason was more aesthetic. I loved the way the page worked, breaking down into slow motion, using only four panels, a particularly grisly death-by-attack-helicopter. It had the same sensation on me as a reader as getting on and off a non-moving escalator has, if that makes any sense -- that sudden drawing out of time followed by a jarring snap-back to normality.<br />
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In technical terms, I had to fudge it a little bit -- the Intercorstal 2 pages are being done at a different page ratio to the original, and the compositional elements I mentioned -- the helicopter in the top frame, the repeating character poses in 2&3 and the explosion of gore in Panel 4 were very roughly sketched in, and then not referred to again. It was important to me that I kept a high-contrast, unfussy page, so there aren't a great number of details and the patterning I often deploy is nowhere to be seen, which was intended to recall Allred's style -- there are a few lines in there where I've tried to recreate his inking style, but I'm not sure I'd be able to point them out, if I'm honest.<br />
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But in other matters: page 22 is done. Another 2 pages (maybe another 3, am considering dropping one of the previous pages) and I'll be looking to get an actual, printed copy done (at a printer, rather than on the office photocopier).grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-68540991672775334482014-05-08T04:45:00.000-07:002014-05-08T04:45:05.723-07:00Intercorstal 2 Page 21 - final page and scan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's Page 21 of The Intercorstal 2, along with its scan. As you may have noticed, the scan is upside down, which is actually pretty appropriate because that's how I worked on it, flipping it when I was finished (and quite a lot throughout, actually). This is one of the pages from I2 which is all mine, without taking layout or compositional cues from any existing comics, and as such felt like a bit of a slog sometimes.grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-44710030608259222522014-04-08T05:03:00.002-07:002014-04-08T05:03:34.903-07:00Intercorstal 2 Pages 17-20 Scans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are the original scanned pages for the Intercorstal 2, pages 17, 18, 19 and 20.<br />
As you can see, pages 18 and 19 were done a little differently to the scans I normally post. Both started as doodles on conference paper, and evolved into finished pages. I was emboldened by the work of <a href="http://warwickjohnsoncadwell.blogspot.co.uk/">Warwick Johnson Cadwell</a>, who I met at London Super Comic Convention 2014 (he had a table on artist alley, I was volunteering). I listened to an interview with him where he said that he kept panels for comics separately (in a plastic bag?) so I figured I could do something similar with The Intercorstal -- draw the content and then shape it into a page at a later date.<br />
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Page 20 (the one down the bottom) is an abstraction from <a href="http://imagecomics.com/comics/series/bulletproof-coffin">Hine & Kane's Bulletproof Coffin</a>. The other three pages came straight out of my headbox.<br />
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The finished pages of these can be found at the <a href="http://abstractcomics.blogspot.co.uk/">Abstract Comics blog</a><br />
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<br />grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-83147814805289727362013-12-12T05:18:00.003-08:002013-12-12T05:18:32.293-08:00Intercorstal 2 Page 12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640917908691053140.post-66423296270596099012013-11-25T05:02:00.001-08:002013-11-25T05:02:26.905-08:00Intercorstal 2 Page 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the current state of Page 9 of the Intercorstal 2.<br />
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It's a... bit of a departure. As I was working on Page 8, my son asked if he could help (he's 4). I kindly asked him to leave that page, as I was almost done, but he could do a little to this page, which I'd laid out in pencil (again, after a page from 'Still Life'). He took a pen and scribbled over the whole thing. Not sure why I expected anything different.<br />
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But, y'know... it did add a totally new element to the page, which was going to be very constructed, and a lot of hard work. As you can see, I've started working into what he left, and hope if I continue it'll all work out. Check back, if you're interested, I'm sure I'll post up the finished page.grthinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772699331010102579noreply@blogger.com0