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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 1:54:02 GMT -5
Bleeding Cool is running a story about a fan who commissioned Paul Smith to draw the classic Strange origin story for him. Smith posted the pages to his website and BC has a look at those pages... I like the character of Doc Strange, the origin by Ditko and Lee is my favorite Silver Age origin, and Paul Smith is among those artist sI hold in high regard, so I was very excited to see these pages. Thought some of you might like them too...      Man, I'd love to be able to commission an entire story form one of my favorite artists, but that must have taken a pretty penny to get done. Got to love Smith's work though, the storytelling is so clear even without lettering (granted I know that story backwards and forwards and don't need lettering to know what's going on, but the art just gives the gist of the story so well) -M |
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Post by Spike-X on Dec 29, 2015 2:55:28 GMT -5
The first couple pages in particular don't need any dialogue to let the reader know exactly what's happening.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 29, 2015 6:29:18 GMT -5
I was never a Dr. Strange fan but I did buy the run from about 48-75. They had many nice artists working with Roger Stern during this issues. Paul Smith shined in those comics. I never liked his X-men run , although I bought it like a Marvel Zombie.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 29, 2015 8:37:37 GMT -5
Those are great pages, and it shows that Smith is a Dr. Strange fan. (Strange looking a little crazy as he must change his entire view of reality on page 4 is especially excellent).
What's also great is the concept of commissioning a story from an artist! I never even thought that could be done, but hey... Why not? That could be a great way for favourite artists who aren't the "flavour of the month" anymore to make some welcome cash.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 8:56:26 GMT -5
Those are great pages, and it shows that Smith is a Dr. Strange fan. (Strange looking a little crazy as he must change his entire view of reality on page 4 is especially excellent). What's also great is the concept of commissioning a story from an artist! I never even thought that could be done, but hey... Why not? That could be a great way for favourite artists who aren't the "flavour of the month" anymore to make some welcome cash. A lot of artists take commissions, many via their website, but usually it is for a single pin up/cover style piece, I hadn't thought about commissioning a sequence of narrative pages. Some artists can be quite pricey even for the single pages. -M |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 29, 2015 10:15:26 GMT -5
Those are great pages, and it shows that Smith is a Dr. Strange fan. (Strange looking a little crazy as he must change his entire view of reality on page 4 is especially excellent). What's also great is the concept of commissioning a story from an artist! I never even thought that could be done, but hey... Why not? That could be a great way for favourite artists who aren't the "flavour of the month" anymore to make some welcome cash. A lot of artists take commissions, many via their website, but usually it is for a single pin up/cover style piece, I hadn't thought about commissioning a sequence of narrative pages. Some artists can be quite pricey even for the single pages. -M Yeah, pin-up commissions are a staple of the industry... but a whole story? That was news to me. Charging a large sum for original art is a limiting factor for customers, but I really can't blame the artists (as I realize you're not doing either). My own experience is that more than half of the people asking for original art expect you to do it for free, sometimes with the extremely lame excuse that "it'll give you exposure". Why would anyone work for free? And why would anyone famous for their art accept to work for anything less than professional fees? Especially since there is a brisk market for original comic-book art, and that any commission is likely to be sold down the line for a lot more than it cost originally (particularly when the artist isn't there anymore to provide more original art). There's only one guy I met who was in a position to do something about artist fees and did something about it: the director of a biotech firm who commissioned cartoons from me a few years ago. He refused my original quote because he thought I worked too cheap and insisted on increasing the amount! Now that's a way to generate fidelity! |
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